Minn Kota 1865107 Trolling Motor Quick Connect Plug/MKR-20

Little pricey for what it is but really like the fact that it comes with soldering. You just drop a small short piece of it in the metal connector heat it up with a propane torch and push in the wire. Makes for a strong positive connection. I’d buy it again.

About as easy as it gets.

Connectors are easy to assemble, if you have adequate soldering equipment. However, as stated in other reviews, the 2 sections of the connectors do not lock into place when joined. In fact, if joined together, and held in a vertical position, they slide apart because of their own weight. I placed a piece of electrical tape on the periphery of the male end and that provided enough friction to hold them together. Minn Kota needs to design a locking mechanism to hold the male and female sections together.Update:Was able to get out on the water today for the first time use of the connectors. These are connected to 12 volt batteries and a 55# thrust electric trolling motor. The cable leading from the battery is #6 AWG marine cable. After starting the motor and traveling about 50 yards, I noticed smoke coming fom the connector. I reached for the cable and it fell apart. It had literally melted in less than a minute. The connector at the battery end also melted and the 2 sections fused. Had to row back to shore and called it a day. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THESE CONNECTORS.

This did the job for me. I'm using the plug to connect a portable 50 watt solar panel to 10 awg cables. I eventually found out this is a standard Anderson SB50 multipole plug. The Anderson plugs can be had a good bit cheaper than the Minnkota kit, and in 7 colors. Well, cost may depend on where you buy, and shipping expense. The main benefit of the Minnkota kit is that it includes appropriate solder. For me, anything involving solder has been hit or miss -- mostly miss. And, that's probably because I did not have the right solder or magic flux for the material at hand. The flux-core solder in this kit worked beautifully, just as described in the instructions. I used a plain-jane propane torch, and held the connector with needle-nose Vise-grip pliers. To help grasp how the plug goes together, there's a nice photo of an Anderson plug that's been sectioned for example, on 4wdadventures.com. Search that domain along with "diy guide to anderson plugs". Also, note that dust caps and rubber boots are available for Anderson plugs.

When I finished assembling this plug, I thought if I had to do another plug, it would be easy. However, the directions are sorely lacking making it pretty much a guessing game on how to put it together.A few pictures would be helpful. I figured it out because I am good with my hands and I have put together many things in the past and it helped. If a person is doing something like this for the first time...it can be frustrating. Here is some advice, get (or borrow) a small fishing split ring pliers and use the point of the pliers on the outside of the casing and depress the flat piece of metal inside before pushing the lead in. Doing so will make the "seating" of the lead so much easier. Install the lead with the little groove and the gradual elevation of the lead facing up and it will seat into place. After snapping the unit together, it takes a pretty good pull to separate the unit. Good luck!

Nice heavy duty contacts. The solder sent with the plug was difficult to get hot enough to melt. I did use a propane torch but just couldn't get it to melt. Instead I used used my own 60/40 solder. Inserted the tinned wire in the connector then heated and applied solder when it began to melt. Fill the connector to the top without overflowing. This worked well. Be sure to tin the wires before trying to solder them in the connectors. Also use a Rosin Soldering Paste Flux in the connectors and on the wire before apply solder. It makes for a much better solder connection.I found the assembly instructions easy to use and had no problem putting it together. This plug should last for years.Bill

This is great. I should have got it a long time ago. Some have argued it's hard to figure out. If you can't figure this out then you have no place on a boat or fishing. It is really simple. For those who claimed it melted, there is no way for this to melt unless you use too thin of a wire. Use 6 or 8 gauge wire and solder them and your good to go (home depot and lowes sells them for around 2$ a foot). Use solder connections to conned them to the battery and you will have years of use out of this. I recommend an inline fuse for safety reasons. I used a 60 am for a 55# trolling motor as Minn Kota stated.

I found this connector a bit difficult to assemble properly. But I finally figured it out and it snaps together very well -- although is a bit difficult to disconnect. And I would have no problem assembling a second plug (i.e., now that I know how to do it right!)-- which suggests to me that this connector needs better instructions (a well-drawn diagram could really help). Took me a while to figure out how to really push the individual connections in far enough into the plastic connector so that they "snap" very snugly into place. But now that it's done, I like the connector. Time will tell how well it holds up, but I'm pretty confident it will not accidentally disconnect.

Very disappointed with the plug ends which I have received. I was under the impression when viewing the plugs as pictured and presented they would have the wires attached to them. They of course did not. The directions for attaching wires were, to me at least unclear and one of the four prongs did not will not seat properly. As a result the clips will not hold together and they have to be held together with electrical tape. I have this day ordered another set as I think the concept is good but the produce has shortcomings. Once received I will have a spare should something go wrong with the current broken set I am now using. This time of course I have to pay freight because I'm not over the free shipping cost limit.

A GOOD HOOKUP SYSTEM -- PICTURE INSTRUCTIONS FOR CORRECTLY INSERTING THE LEADS WOULD HELP WHEN PUTTING WIRES INTO EACH PLASTIC HOLDERS

exactly as described

Worked for what I needed them for. For quality; they compare to the ones I have seen from the OEM manufacture. They are probably the same ones.

Needed if your going to be removing your trolling motor from the bow and placing on the floor for travel. Easy instructions. A little stiff when removing the first couple times.