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You can lock your motor in a vertical posi-
tion, angle it for shallow water or tilt it com-
pletely out of the water.
• Firmly grasp the control head or compos-
ite shaft.
• Depress and hold the tilt release button.
• Tilt to any of the positions on the mount-
ing bracket.
• Release the tilt button.
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Release Button
Handle Controls ON/OFF,
Steering, Forward/Reverse.
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These Riptide motors [except
RT40/42/50/S/W] offer a choice of infinite-
ly variable speeds as provided by the
built-in Maximizer pulse width modulation
system.The speed control may be operat-
ed in either direction, forward or reverse.
Turn the tilt twist tiller handle counterclock-
wise from O (OFF) to increase reverse
speed and clockwise from O (OFF) to
increase forward speed. Thrust decreases
as you approach O from either direction.
The numbers printed on the twist grip
handle represent a percentage of maxi-
mum thrust.
The RT40/42/50/S/W offers a choice of
three reverse and five forward speeds.
The twist grip tiller handle is shipped in the
down position. Firmly pull the handle up to
the horizontal position. The handle has
five available positions: 45° down, hori-
zontal, 15°, 30° and 45° tilted up. The han-
dle locks in the horizontal position, but can
be tilted down by pushing the release but-
ton located on the left underside of the
handle pivot.
CAUTION: NEVER OPERATE
YOUR MINN KOTA MOTOR WHEN
IT IS OUT OF THE WATER.
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The built-In Maximizer’s solid state electronics
create pulse width modulation to provide
longer running time and extended battery
life. With the Maximizer speed control you
may, in some applications, experience inter-
ference in your depth finder display. We rec-
ommend that you use a separate deep
cycle marine batteries for your trolling motor
to alleviate this condition.
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BLACK-
BATTERY LEAD
RED+ BATTERY LEAD
BATTERY 2
BATTERY 3
BATTERY 1
CONNECTING WIRE
CONNECTING WIRE
RED+
BLACK-
GREEN GROUND
MOTOR
CONTROL BOARD
POT BOARD
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