Thread: 2014 IPilot Terrova problem

Mine shuts off if you do not press a button in the preset shut off time. It doesnt matter if the motor is getting a command or not. Example when trolling the remote is giving the speed reference etc. but it still shuts off. I just turned miy auto off the the highest setting. I use a 12V cigerette lighter plug with usb port if I need to charge it on the water. When the remote shuts off I think my motor keeps doing what it was told to do I will have to check because I'm not sure.

Originally Posted by mervin

2. But most troublesome is the fact that if I turn the speed anything over 7 on either the remote or the foot pedal wheel, the TM runs for a matter of seconds then shuts itself off.

I thought it was fused too small (dealer had installed a 40 amp breaker) so I replaced it with a 50 amp breaker. Still had the same problem. And upon checking the resettable breakers, found they had never tripped.

In an effort to isolate the problem, I removed the breaker altogether. It didn't change anything. The TM still shuts off after 15-20 seconds running over 7 on the remote or foot pedal.

Is the whole unit shutting off or just no motor thrust? Can you still steer when it happens?

As a last resort, I pulled the three batteries out of the rear compartment, put them up front by the trolling motor and wired direct to the receptacle with 6 gauge stranded wire.

Took the boat to the lake, dropped the trolling motor down, took off on high (10) and cruised away! For 15 seconds....then it shut down. Kept trying it on progressively lower settings and when I got down to 6.5, it kept running.

So back on the trailer it went. Got home, removed the offending TM from the boat, took the 101# thrust Terrova w/IPilot off my old boat, installed it on the new boat.

Took the new TM to Tracker Marine in Hendersonville, TN, 5 minutes from my house, and checked it in. That was Tuesday because the Minnkota repair guy only works there on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

By Friday noon I still hadn't heard anything from the repair shop, I called Minnkota and asked them to call the shop and check on the status of the motor. Two hours later I got a call from Tracker Marine informing me that they don't do warranty work on Minnkota motors UNLESS they were purchased from them or at Bass Pro shops. They would repair my motor but I would have to pay for any diagnostics and parts and labor.

I called Minnkota back and they told me to take it to C&O Marine in White Bluff, TN, an hour away, that they were an authorized repair shop who would do the warranty work regardless of where the motor was purchased.

So I go to Tracker Marine, pick up the motor then drive the hour to C&O and check the TM in there, thinking at last I'll get something going. That was Friday afternoon, it is now Wednesday evening and I have not heard a word from C&O. I called today to try to get and idea, a guestimate, a possible date of repair on this motor. I was told when the repair guy came back in from "out back" (Australia??) he would call me. Never happened.

Should I ever get this thing back in a repaired condition, I'll post what the problem was but it's not looking good. Gonna see if Minnkota wants to make me some kind of feel good offer to assuage my damaged tender feelings.

It's just the "thrust" shutting off. I can still steer with the foot pedal or the remote. I just shut the motor off then right back on and it will run for another 12-15 seconds then shut off again.

Like the above post says, it's in the hands of the repair guy now.

If anyone is interested, Minnkota is looking for someone to be an authorized Minnkota repair shop in the Nashville area. If I wasn't electrically challenged, I'd take them up on the offer.

do you have a humminbird that it is hooked up to and have you done the updates on both of them and the remote? Is there any chance that you are turning on auto speed control and it is running up to that speed and then backing off and not running untill it slows down and then starts back up again.