Thread: Minn Kota i Pilot questions and answers

Originally Posted by foul hook

As expected the people at Minn Kota are eager to please. The TM must be able to rotate 360 deg. When the collar broke the TM dropped down and took all the slack out of my transducer cable. This alone would bind the unit up and cause the problem. Thanks to Paul and The service dept I am back on the water . You too Jason. Thanks! If you ever get to the real world ( South Georgia ) look me up. I will be riding a white TRITON .

Thanks for sharing. Another thing to remember if possible.

Originally Posted by foul hook

As expected the people at Minn Kota are eager to please. The TM must be able to rotate 360 deg. When the collar broke the TM dropped down and took all the slack out of my transducer cable. This alone would bind the unit up and cause the problem. Thanks to Paul and The service dept I am back on the water . You too Jason. Thanks! If you ever get to the real world ( South Georgia ) look me up. I will be riding a white TRITON .

So does this mean that you can not have a external tranducer mouted on the Terrova trolling motor and use the Ipilot? Looks like they could put a 360 limit switch so it would not rotate over 360 degrees.

Originally Posted by PaddleFishing

You could just put the turns into the path you record.....

Start recording with a loop that takes you into your trolling run and end with the turn loop after you come to the end of your trolling run.



One of the pro-s of a recordable path.

JM2CW

Doug

Good thought but won't work. Once you get to the end of your big loop and hit the button to follow the track back, it will sharpley turn the boat to follow the big loop on the return. It will not just pick up the straight track as you are alluding to.
I may not be explaining it just right, but think about it for a few minutes and you will see what I am saying.

Found this site that has the i-pilot on sale.

HUGE SALE on Minn Kota i-Pilot GPS Trolling Motor Control System

Originally Posted by hunt4crappie

Good thought but won't work. Once you get to the end of your big loop and hit the button to follow the track back, it will sharpley turn the boat to follow the big loop on the return. It will not just pick up the straight track as you are alluding to.
I may not be explaining it just right, but think about it for a few minutes and you will see what I am saying.

HOLYCOW! Another donut. Thanks.

Seems it would work if you put the end and the start closer together.

Wannabe...

Used the I-pilot on Mon and Tues jigging for Striper and Crappie and love it. Used the spot lock most of the time. One thing that I have to figure out is where to set the collar on the shaft to make the trolling motor able to turn the full amount right and left without binding. I was also using an external transducter. When it started to bind (only a couple of times during the 2 days) I would just turn spot lock off, spin the motor and put spot lock back on. Spot lock is great for fishing brush pile and schooling fish.

Thanks,

Scott

Awesome. I'm glad your first experiences were positive, and that you found it to be a useful boat control tool.

I'll be putting mine back to work on Friday. 25 degrees for a forecast high, and the Mississippi River is calling!

Brass monkey weather..........

Tried my I-Pilot today. Really like the cruise control. It increases and decreases the motor speed automatically to control the boat speed---very smooth. The GPS autopilot also works good. Haven't tried the spot-lock, or the tracks, yet.