Does anyone have a MinnKota power drive trolling motor?
Any problems with the steering servo motor? Is this better than the cable type
steering setup?

Have an old one from 1987. It is still going strong.

The advantages are the length of the control cable and therefore the ability
to put it almost anywhere on the boat. Comes in handy when you want to let
someone fish out of the fron of the boat.

I would say mine is a little more difficult to control than a direct cable
type. However, the contol on mine is one of the originals. It uses mostly
mechanical control of the electrical circuits. I am sure the newer ones
uise more electronic controls and therefore are easier to control. Even on
mine not a big problem just annoying sometimes when it goes to far.

My unit is a minkota by the way.

Good luck

John

"CCred68046" wrote in message
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Does anyone have a MinnKota power drive trolling motor?
Any problems with the steering servo motor? Is this better than the cable
type
steering setup?

"CCred68046" wrote in message
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Does anyone have a MinnKota power drive trolling motor?
Any problems with the steering servo motor? Is this better than the cable
type
steering setup?

I have an MK 65ap. I like it a lot. does make more noise than the cable
drive, and can wrap the cable around, but takes a couple of wraps to stress
the cable. I run mine in auto pilot mode, when trolling lakes. Can lock
the kicker straight and let the 65 AP correct the front of the boat to go
the right (republican) direction. Easier on the bad knees than the older
cable drive. That one (MK 40m) would turn if you took the foot off the
pedal. This unit, I can take the control to the back of a 21' boat and
steer from there. There are wireless control units also. Both MK supplies
the Co-pilot and Sunny's Electric in Sacramento supplies one. Sunny's is
better as you can control the AP remotely.
Bill