Thread: Mounting a transducer on a MK power drive TM

Originally Posted by gabowman

I've been running a depth finder attached to my trolling motor for years and both have always been attached to two batteries in parallel without any problems. I recently changed TM's to a more powerful one with i-pilot and now I loose everything but the bottom every time I turn the troller on. I'll try your suggestion and re-wire my DF to the cranking battery to see if that fixes it. thx.

Thats what I had to do Gabowman.

i dont see the link or suggestion in the first post? Wheres it at?

Originally Posted by Kman

i dont see the link or suggestion in the first post? Wheres it at?

For some reason it disappeared. I put it back.

Very helpful thank you

​Thanks guys I just bought a new one and this made it a piece of cake to mount.

I must agree this thread made it easy to do, one thing i had a hard time doing is drilling a hole in the release handle so i came up with this idea and it still working 2 years now, make sure if you buy one of these stick on cable holders make sure its big enough for the cable to slide.

this is how i solved the problem. i used screw in hook catches....similar to the ones used on screen doors......just bigger so the cord would slide easly.....

Just thought I'd add this one that I found as I have recently been researching the same. I did it and it seems to work so far. Good solution for giving you some extra buffer with the cord.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0gkjK8bDuO8

Slick ideas. Thanks to all for posting. I just combined the 2 ideas, drilled the small hole in the fin of the motor and drilled the hole in the handle at 1 inch and added the spring at the head of the trolling motor and works like a charm on the transducer wire not getting caught up anywhere getting pinched.

Any updates, new ideas, or photos for a project like this?