Thread: public service announcement for Ulterra owners with standard ipilot

I learned a new trick today from a MinnKota rep. The other day I went to launch and found the remote for my 2 month old Ulterra dead. My best friend picked me up a new battery on the way to the ramp and after installing it still wouldn't respond.


This is for the standard non-link remote: if you have a similar situation where it's completely dead and will not respond. Remove the battery cover and remove the CR2450 battery. Turn the battery over with the positive down and install it backwards. Press it all the way down flat. Then remove and reinstall correctly. The remote should now be reset and functioning.


Apparently if certain buttons are pressed it can overload the circuit basically and this is the reset method. Worked like a charm.

You have to wonder if they didn't discover this trick when somebody accidentally put the battery in backwards and when he turned it over the thing started working again.
Lots of fixes have come about this way. I had a printer years ago that would freeze up and you had to pick it up and burp it like a baby to get it going.