Re: Minn kota edge speed differential
I had Maxum on my mind when this started so I apologize for the Edge/Maxum confusion. However the Edge is a switch selectable motor anyway so no harm done. After reading this thread several times, there is a phenomenon called "infant mortality" involving electronics. This term means that if a new product fails very early in life it was likely due to a manufacturing defect in a certain aspect of assembly or with an individual component used in that product. As a result, products can fail very early in life. Even though your motor is four years old, it has only been used a very few times. Therefore IF, a failed component is the result, blame it on infant mortality. Those failures typically occur just as yours did -- worked fine when put away then failure happens at the next power up. Again, pure speculation on my part but IF this is the cause of the failure, the failed component is not likely the switch as it is not a likely early failure component. A potentimeter has a higher possibility of failure but one is not used on this motor. Since the motor is four years old and ignoring it's low usage, there is still the possibility that something "physically" happened to the motor during these long periods of inactivity. As I said, the switch is easily checked. If it is ok then the control board is the suspect. That's was, and still is my "guess".