Originally Posted by
Kevin22
Didnt know where to put this, hopefully a mod can move it to its correct place. <br>
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Was tired of being stuck with the ipilot which makes fishing docks a little difficult.. so i did some searching and found a solution. Well two of them, one from here which involved a board change and allowed you to use both at once, but then i throught why cant it just be a switch?? It cost me $4 for a DPDT switch and about 15 min of time to carefully hook it up. Now i can just plug in the foot pedal and flip the switch upwards, then if i want ipilot for trolling i can plug that in and flip the switch down. <br>
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I included the wiring, it really does only take a few minutes. I did extend each wire a little bit to make for easier working. <br>
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<br><br>This will not work when the control board is Autopilot board. I believe all V2 Ipilots from factory uses the AP board. AP not easy-peasy. If so, I would told you. <br><br>That switch will work only with non autopilot power control boards. Yes, you could change out the power control board to the non autopilot control board, then this would work. I have done this before myself.<br><br>
Last edited by Cane Pole; 02-17-2023 at 07:26 PM.
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