High-Tech Trolling Motor : iPilot is NOT your average NAV-Tool !!

[thedude]

Originally Posted by waterfoul

Dude... Call Grand Rapids Communications (West River Drive east of the ballpark). They are the only local authorized Minn Kota repair facility. I've had good luck sending customers there and he's helped me out the two times I've had Minn Kota issues in the past. Have him fix it on MK's tab then sell it BEFORE you put it back on your boat!!

yeah thats where i was gonna take it.

[swamptromper]

Originally Posted by Ranger Ray

50% of my fish come from drifting off course and being where this know it all thought I should be. This thing will decrease my catch.

[wall-ib-jiggin]

I have a year old terrova that has a broke shaft and prop. I was jigging along some BIG rocks by the charities and a boats wake pushed me up on them and broke the composite shaft and prop does GR comm. repair these?? the insurance company bought me a new one and left the old one for me to dispose of but it works fine except slight damage..

[waterfoul]

You would have to call them direct.

[sfw1960]

Originally Posted by wall-ib-jiggin

I have a year old terrova that has a broke shaft and prop. I was jigging along some BIG rocks by the charities and a boats wake pushed me up on them and broke the composite shaft and prop does GR comm. repair these?? the insurance company bought me a new one and left the old one for me to dispose of but it works fine except slight damage..

Great Lakes Communications

(616) 647-9990
4970 W River Dr NE
Comstock Park, MI 49321

I ain't seen ole Doug in years...........

[wall-ib-jiggin]

Thanks for the info!! I would like to fix it. Really nothing wrong with it Just broken 60" shaft and prop. So much for "indestructable shafts"
It has universal puck, autopilot, and copilot. 101lbs. thrust..

Would make someone a hell of a deal on it!!
I will also have another copliot for sale Merry christmas to me I bought the Ipilot the other day..

[brigeton]

I installed my i-pilot yesterday . It's been sitting in the box for a couple weeks. It was very easy, 20-30 minutes. Take the top off the head of the motor and replace with the i-pilot controller, run the cable down, remove the side covers & plug a couple wires into the base, plug the main cable into the connector where the foot pedal was and put the side covers back on. The instructions say it has to be completely uninstalled if you want to use the foot pedal again but all you would have to do is unplug the wires in the base and plug the foot pedal back in. I'll probably throw the foot pedal in the camper so I have a backup plan if I'm gone somewhere & something goes wrong.

[ESOX]

Thanks for the report. I would be jealous, but the boat I want an Ipilot on is in my brothers pole barn 30 miles away, and the lake is frozen.
Hold on, the river is wide open, and last year at this time we did well on the walleye......
OK I am jealous. And the day after Christmas is no time to go shopping.
I'll stick with plan "A" and whack a few bunnies and squirrels this afternoon..

[Lucky Dog]

Originally Posted by brigeton

I installed my i-pilot yesterday . It's been sitting in the box for a couple weeks. It was very easy, 20-30 minutes. Take the top off the head of the motor and replace with the i-pilot controller, run the cable down, remove the side covers & plug a couple wires into the base, plug the main cable into the connector where the foot pedal was and put the side covers back on. The instructions say it has to be completely uninstalled if you want to use the foot pedal again but all you would have to do is unplug the wires in the base and plug the foot pedal back in. I'll probably throw the foot pedal in the camper so I have a backup plan if I'm gone somewhere & something goes wrong.

So there is no foot pedal if you use the I-pilot?

[ESOX]

Originally Posted by Lucky Dog

So there is no foot pedal if you use the I-pilot?

Correct, just like the copilot, there is a remote, not a foot pedal. That makes the ideal for fly fishing, where you don't want anything on the deck for your line to tangle on. Great for guys fishing from the back of the boat, nop cable running on the deck to trip on.

[sfw1960]

So NO MORE "Whooops , Uh oh..." ???

I hope to hell the back light is good along with battery life.

You know I'll have the foot pedal under a seat somewhere....


Thanks for making Paul jealous Lee!!

Originally Posted by brigeton

I installed my i-pilot yesterday . It's been sitting in the box for a couple weeks. It was very easy, 20-30 minutes. Take the top off the head of the motor and replace with the i-pilot controller, run the cable down, remove the side covers & plug a couple wires into the base, plug the main cable into the connector where the foot pedal was and put the side covers back on. The instructions say it has to be completely uninstalled if you want to use the foot pedal again but all you would have to do is unplug the wires in the base and plug the foot pedal back in. I'll probably throw the foot pedal in the camper so I have a backup plan if I'm gone somewhere & something goes wrong.

[ESOX]

I hear you Robert, With the Co-Pilot the pedal was always on the boat somewhere.
Jealousy can be cured, last I heard the treatment was a bit over $300.00.

[sfw1960]

Originally Posted by ESOX

I hear you Robert, With the Co-Pilot the pedal was always on the boat somewhere.
Jealousy can be cured, last I heard the treatment was a bit over $300.00.

Just over $400 with tax...


Lee's a good guy and this ought to make him all the more dangerous.
When I met him , he was already a good stick , but since he's upgraded all his toys - those walleye shudder when that old Nissan fires up down the lake.


I just hope I can keep up with him out there ....



I am planning on getting my I-Pilot before March , if I get a 'service award' next quarter from my employer I'd have a pretty good down payment towards it.


I knew Lee was on it - as soon as I told him about it he sent a link to his Wife, Kay .... she'd would be ordering one as soon as it could be had....

[Lucky Dog]

Originally Posted by ESOX

Correct, just like the copilot, there is a remote, not a foot pedal. That makes the ideal for fly fishing, where you don't want anything on the deck for your line to tangle on. Great for guys fishing from the back of the boat, nop cable running on the deck to trip on.

Seems like it would be kind of hard to jig with two rods and steer with a hand held remote at the same time.

With the co pilots I used, you could still use the foot pedal if you wanted to.

[wall-ib-jiggin]

On the terrova I believe the pedal can still be used..I havent opened my I-pilot up yet. Water is to hard to worry about it yet!!