"Paul Dougherty" wrote in message
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I have a 47 pound thrust minnkota motor on the bow of my boat. At 5
(it highest setting) the motor thrust makes all kind of noise as the
brackets and linkage tighten. Does anyone have a circuit for soft
starting the motor?


You wouldn't be able to add an external motor control because it would
really mess up the internal control. It would be possible to disassemble
the control head, grab the two wires that actually go to the motor (they
will be the biggest two out of 5 or 6) and them make your own controller
that would provide a soft start. If you were really creative you might even
be able to utilize the switching transistors that are mounted down in the
motor housing and thus utilize the water cooling (that is what the other
wires are for that travel down the pipe to the motor).

That would be way more work than fixing your mount, however.

Rod