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    Had a weird thing happen yesterday. Was pulling cranks with my Terrova, cruise set on 1.7. Motor was running about 4 1/2. Noticed my poles started slacking and the motor was reducing its speed. GPS on remote was showing actual speed climbing. Looked up at my 1197 and it showed I was speeding up also. The two are not linked. I was nearly at a dead stop but both of the gps units were saying that I was going almost 4 mph. This lasted about 30 minutes. Solar flares? Aliens bumped a satellite? What y'all think?
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    Sounds like they're toast... Send to me for disposal.... That is odd though.

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    Not sure but I do know when Motor Guide first came out with the wireless footpedal had a friend in a wheel chair that got one so he could strap it to his thigh and use his hand to run it. EVERY time we got to a certain spot up Turkey Creek it would quit, would have to motor up or down the creek for it to start back. Motor Guide was never able to splain it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by feelay View Post
    Had a weird thing happen yesterday. Was pulling cranks with my Terrova, cruise set on 1.7. Motor was running about 4 1/2. Noticed my poles started slacking and the motor was reducing its speed. GPS on remote was showing actual speed climbing. Looked up at my 1197 and it showed I was speeding up also. The two are not linked. I was nearly at a dead stop but both of the gps units were saying that I was going almost 4 mph. This lasted about 30 minutes. Solar flares? Aliens bumped a satellite? What y'all think?
    Had something similar to that happen to me one day out from the mouth of clear creek. Everything said I was speeding up but my drift socks came up beside the boat. Best I could figure there was some kind of current right through there. Like you said after about 30 minutes and some distance down the lake everything was back to normal.
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    Was at sardis yesterday...................we had no such problems.

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    I had something very similar happen a couple of weeks ago on KY Lake. Mine was when the Terrova was in cruise-control and the speed dropped down then the motor essentially went into rabbit. The speed on both my GPS units agreed but didn't agree with the speed on my remote. I had to back the speed all the way down in manual then slowly increase it back up before the cruise-control would engage and not try to run away.This all lasted about 10 minutes then no issues the rest of the day. I carry extra remote batteries and thought about changing it out just in case.

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