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Seahunt,

If the old connector is soldered to a circuit board as the rep said, do not make a mess of it trying to unsolder it by brute force. Use a low watt soldering iron and an inexpensive device called a solder sucker. The only type that works well, is a spring loaded plunger in a cylinder. You push the handle down and it locks into position, put the tip at the solder joint as you heat it up, then hit the trigger to release the plunger. It pops up sucking the melted solder with it. After you do this to all the connector joints, the old connector should come off without pulling off any of the fragile copper clad conductor strips. Should be no problem in soldering on the new connector with a low wattage iron. Be careful of static electricity as there should not be problem at the low impedance end of a power connector, but you do not want to zap some other critical circuit board item by walking across a rug and just touching things at random on the board. If you do not have a grounding wrist strap, pick a damp day to work on it.

seahunt202

Thanks for all of the help everyone , i installed the new plug the other day and will just cross my fingers 'till i get the battery in the boat and reinstall the unit. Thanks again.