Heyo I just got a new trolling motor and have a quick question about the wires on the unit.
My battery is in the rear of my boat for my lights, depth finder, and transom mounted trolling motor. My new motor is a bow mount and I have 2 choices.
One: I could splice the wires and extend them to reach the rear of my boat.
Two: I could move my battery up to the front of the boat and my depth finder's wires should be long enough to reach it.
The choice I PREFER is to splice and extend the positive and negative wires from the unit to reach the end of my boat... The biggest reason I'm asking about this is because I was wondering if extending the positive and negative would make the unit lose power. It would be about 13-14 feet from the unit to the battery. That seems like a lot of wire for the power to travel through.
Do I run the risk of under-powering the unit or any other risk that could devastate my battery or the unit by using wires that long?
If you'd like to see a picture of the motor housing and the wires in question, you can go to my album "My First Boat" they're all in there.
