Agree. Lacking experience of bowthrusters, I thought mine was undersized an inadequate until I replaced the battery and discovered it was more than up to the task.Welcome. No insight on that model, but I can say that in my estimation 90% of complaints over thruster performance turn out to be power related rather than thruster related. On a lot of Mainships the bow thruster is powered from the house bank.
My approach would be to figure out where the power is coming from and then do a voltage test at batteries and thruster during a 20 second burst. See what that tells you before tearing into the thruster.
Jeff
I have a '98 350 with a Bow-Power belt drive thruster. Anyone familiar with this unit ???, was it original equipment ??? ..... it is next to useless even in a dead calm. Any information would be appreciated.
Lom
can you give a little more info on the zinc you use. I hate spending $40 on zins for these.
Cheers J.T.
is it similar to this? https://powerproductsystems.com/7726.html
can you give a little more info on the zinc you use. I hate spending $40 on zins for these.
Cheers J.T.
Ilander2017
I bought a few similar too that but was worried about not getting enough contact with the prop hub or shaft. Do you find normal zinc loss compared to the other zincs on your boat? The replacement zinc from Marine Hardware are at least twice as heavy, pretty robust. When I got the boat the owner used a disk type and would burn up pretty fast. Last thing I need is losing my thruster to corrosion!!
Thanks and Happy New Year
J.T.
It is the shortest lived zinc on my boat. I change the shaft zinc and transom zinc about once a year. The bow thruster isn't bonded and I wonder if that is the reason for the faster erosion.
Cheers.