Quote Originally Posted by winner 2000 View Post
totally out of touch wth new technology. what's digital do for you as far as trolling motors go? notice the 12/24 volt is a dinosaur. i had a 30 something lb. thrust in the old days and that was fine,but now they seem to start at 55 lbs and 12 volt. guess you run them in parallel?

A digital trolling motor has a microprocessor in it that turns the power off and on many times per second. This lightens the load on the batteries, making them last longer. The technical term for this is pulse width modulation.