Minn kota trolling motor power center, just because it says for trolling motor on it. I’ve also got one of these on my starter motor in the back of the boat. Now I probably bought about eight of these. In the last 10 years, I’ve owned different boats, uh sold them bought. Another boat bought two more of these, and usually, whenever I sell a boat that has these in it, you know the new owner always wants to keep them.

So I got to go out and buy another pair. I just bought this boat here a couple months ago and of course decided to buy two more of these power centers for this boat because I really enjoy having them and they’re fairly useful. Now, on top here, you have a test button. It will actually tell you the charge of the battery. Now I didn’t really think I was going to use that function much, but I have used it quite a bit over the years now, if you’re out all day long, you know using your trolling motor, you got a depth finder up there as well.

Maybe you have an electric anchor uh. You kind of want to check to see where your battery’s at throughout the day, especially if you’re on a big lake, you never know when your big motor might not start so you need the trolling motor to get back to the dock. It’s really easy just to check this. You know maybe you’re moving around a lot and you have an electric anchor and you’re using that quite a bit, it’s nice to have that test button there.

On top, I actually use it more than I thought it would now. It does have a breaker for the trolling motor or whatever it is you’re hooked to this, and it also has a breaker for this cigarette lighter adapter right here, so you don’t have to run inline fuses for your battery cables with this built-in breaker uh it does work. I think I’ve tripped one of these in the last 10 years now.

Another cool feature could be my favorite feature. I’m not sure two cigarette lighters adapters on both ends. Now, maybe you think I’m never going to use that. Well, let’s say you catch a big fish. You turn your phone on. You want to take a picture phone’s dead. You know, hopefully you’ll realize once you get out on the water that hey, I need to charge.

My phone just have a little phone charger with you plug that right in there charge your phone up just like that, because you never want to catch a big fish and not have a picture of it. I’ve done that once in the past, and once only the biggest bass I’ve ever caught in my life, my phone was dead. I’ve never caught one that big again, but my phone is always charged now for sure.

So you have one of those on each end, and maybe you don’t want to use it for a phone charger. You can use it for something else, gps or just about anything that has a cigarette lighter adapter. Now. Also this this battery box is a hair bigger than the standard. You know you go to your local angler shop or a farmer fleet wherever you get your battery boxes, they’re about 15 bucks just that standard one.

This is a little bit bigger than that standard box. It’s a little bit taller a little bit wider a little bit longer. So if you have a super tight space for a standard battery box, this is probably not going to fit because you have to account, for you have maybe three quarters of an inch of handle right here as well as far as height goes now.

As far as cable routing goes, you know your standard box, you’re gonna, have your cables all run inside up. Underneath the lid, uh, cable routing just looks a little nicer, it’s a little bit easier and let me unbuckle this here comes with the buckle and with the uh hold downs, to hold the strap in place. What you do you put your battery inside there and it has cables coming out of the lid right there and you just connect to your battery.

Put your lid on. I know you don’t have a bunch of wires coming out of your battery box. It’s just a little bit cleaner installed. It looks a little bit nicer for like say, you’re going to sell your boat and you got a couple of these in the boat uh. It just looks a little bit nicer for the next buyer. They think you know, hey he’s, got really nice battery boxes.

He probably really took good care of all his equipment and the boat. It’s probably going to help. You sell the darn thing as well price wise. I only buy these when I see them on sale, I can usually get them for 59 dollars that we have a local store here that normally like 79 and every now, and then, as I walk through the fishing aisle and I’ll pick up a lure here.

There I’ll take a glance at these and see what they’re priced at and, if they’re, on sale for 59- and I I don’t have one- I usually pick one up, so we spin it around here to this side. You can see this side and there’s the back and there’s that side and they’re they’re very durable. I’ve never had one, not work where you know something didn’t work on it.

Everything works and the actual plastic is probably twice as thick as your standard battery box that you’re going to pick up at bass pro cabela wherever I’m talking about the normal standard battery box, that’s like 15 bucks or whatever it costs. You can just tell that the plastic is much thicker, it’s much more solid on the side and it has a carry handle on top and also has the handle still on the side.

So if you think that you know this thing is going to help you out as far as your fishing style or, like I said, the the car charger ports on it, the built-in breakers, maybe you’re, wiring up a new trolling motor or new depth. Finder, you don’t need the inline fuses just makes for cleaner. Wiring looks better in the boat, but if you don’t really care that much about you know aesthetics, that’s probably the the main key kind of ingredient to this is the aesthetics, nice, cable, routing, nice, looking battery box, and I think some of the best feature on it is the car charger ports now someday.

I’m going to sell this boat, maybe the next boat I buy doesn’t have these in it I’ll probably go out and buy two more once you once you can use these uh. You realize well, these are a little bit nicer than I thought you get a little spoiled and then you always want them. Hopefully you guys found this review informative and helpful whether it helps you decide whether you don’t want them or do want them.

I appreciate you guys watching.

It’s actually quite simple: what I’ve used is a minn kota trolling motor power center inside the minn kota power center. I have placed a vmax 125 amp hour battery. It is a agm deep cycle. It does not give off any gas, you don’t have to add any water or anything like that to it. It can be mounted in any way. So I’m going to show that to you, but I want to let you know. What’s inside there, it’s a beast. One of the reasons that I went with the minn kota power center is on each end.

It has a built-in 12 volt cigarette, lighter type adapter, which will work perfect with my refrigerator. I also like the fact that it has these external hookups for the inverter, meaning that I don’t have to take the battery out or I don’t have to open it up to actually charge the batter the battery either through solar or through a wall charger. The system is also very portable because of the handle with the power center and, of course, if I need this inside my house anywhere, I need it.

I can easily transport it well. I say easily the problem. The only problem really is is the fact that this battery is 75 pounds so uh, it’s not something that you’re gonna tote around super easy um, but the fact that it is portable and just got to put a little little stomach little shoulders. Little arms, you know, work out your guns and you can move this thing around. I want to show you what the underside of the power center looks like here is the all the wiring right here on the two ends: you’ve got the 12 volt cigarette type adapters and right here are those two fuses that minn kota provides here’s the top there’s kind of a look at the guts inside.

So all this is just gonna sit on top, just like so minn kota provides this strap to buckle everything down, make it nice and secure. So now it’s ready to go. You can walk around with it if you have to. If you look right here at the top, minn kota provides a test button and to indicate the charge of your battery. So all you have to do obviously is hit the button.

This is the manoda comes with a nice bracket. Mounts has a swivel, lock piece where you can lift it up, bring it down turn it this way. In this way, the bracket itself is very strong. Now with the canoes you want to mount it on the outside now, even though the festival in this way he’s got Keith underneath here that grab onto the aluminum, you do not want to put on the inside the canoe, because there’s no lip here, so the actual canoe moves, pretty fast I’ll show you that in a second once we get going plugged in here, I got the battery cable running down, got it over to a marine battery, and this is the 50 amp fuse I think it is so when the the motor gets caught it’ll pop the fuse I can reset it positive negative.

My marine battery I just have a mat there holding it. Oh so anyway, we have been out here all day, never caught anything barely so anyway, we’re gonna pause. It well get moving shortly and we’ll record how fast this sucker moves. Okay, guys we’re gonna, be we’re done for the day. So, pull that anchor up I got this one from Walmart in the US.

Only like 20 bucks for this thing looks like a mushroom. Ah, how deep is that? Let me see it? No! That’s it there! That’s our anchor just row the canoe that keeps us from floating downstream, so we’re gonna get bougie in here. What I’ll get you guys to do is put your hand in the water well wewe bougie. Now we just show these guys the motor.

So let’s uh we’re going to change this. This thing’s got three reverse and links five speed forward. So let’s change it up here. Okay, move on to five speeds: okay, sorry handle water, see how fast the second moves. That’s how fast this little motor boogies around it was pretty fast. I got myself on camera. Doing this normally I would gives me a really nice camera, but I’m not taking that all in the water.

So I like this motor. Here, it’s pretty good. It’s got a pretty good speed. A4. We can run off a battery, no I’m, not ten kilometres yeah I. Think it’s like three miles an hour. If you’re running us terms, so there you go guys, if you guys want to get one of these little canoe, C 30s, you get them at Walmart, really cheap and you can buy this bracket at fast, fast pro shop there and a hook on here.

Can you and like I, said this thing turns pretty good. So like say you I’m gonna turn to the right, then let’s switch it around the other side. Let’s just turn the other way now here that a they got faster turns where my phone will line up in the drink myself floats drink, going down on the water really well, I.

Don’t want to find that out anyway, there you go guys basically simple, you can choose the depth of it too and push this bud and lift it up out of the water. So that’s, basically, the the monody 30 pound thrust five feet so anyway, thanks for watching guys, jack-of-all-trades have a good day.

Is my favorite thing in my group out of all the things I bring, this is most important because numerous times have I found myself screwed from either no phone or I been running trolling for hours and not paying attention to the battery. So this actually tells you if your battery is gonna die. So that’s a pretty important thing. The biggest thing for me about this is the fact that it has these charge ports. The fact that you can charge your phone and not really have to worry about bringing a some junk third party just battery back in your pocket, that’s weighing it down and you already got enough with you and your boat.

You don’t need all that, but this thing’s amazing it beats the plastic one I had before that. You know the battery would just slide around and it was just a case. This thing I feel even if the battery cracked I would still be okay and it’s got the breakers. The fact that your boats not gonna, have light on fire is a good peace of mind. You want to have, but I can’t say enough good about this MinnKota. Their products are the best anything that I buy there is is always top notch.

So if you don’t have one of these already I would definitely look into getting one of these tomorrow. I wouldn’t be going out without some sort of protection level. The breaker, because, if you’re, if you’re running that thing- and you know the wires get hot, that could be pretty bad. So this is a $50 box and it’s pretty worthy investment, but I love it as you can see up top. This is where you can test it see where your batteries that and it’s it’s beautiful. This is what a breaker switches are yeah.

They could have made this thing any any easier and setting up better, see. I got this thing pretty snug, so I don’t even know if I can get this off right now, but bear with me a second, but they couldn’t have made the connections any easier for the average guy. Look, it’s basically just look to redditor to to the positive the black to the negative you’re good. That’s it! That’s the battery I adore this box, and you should too. This is definitely not something you want to not buy.

Even if you want to buy a box and make a breaker, then that’s fine too, but you definitely want to have some sort of breaker, because you will definitely eventually have a fire and that’s never something you want, but thanks for checking us out guys grab one I’m sure you’ll love it just as much as I do anything that’s made by Minn. Kota is top quality, so you never really got to worry about their stuff. Leave me a like subscribe comment. You hate it tell me, I, appreciate it and go Birds.