Thread: i- pilot ?

Robert, I have never come close to running my battery down. Have run for several hours and still had plenty of reserve. Now the guys that pull cranks run faster and I can see that would draw it down faster, plus my boat is not real heavy.

I was never satisfied with the 12volt system. 1/2 way thru the day I would notice I needed to increase the power to keep speed. Now I run a 24volt trolling motor on 16'skiff. I run everything on the boat off those batts to keep weight down. I'm running a minn Kota 80# autopilot. I do have a question. The ipilot controller runs thru batts like I do fried chicken. Two full days and the batt in controller is dead. Anybody else have this problem? The batts the controller uses are expensive.

I don't have that problem Uncle Remus. It maybe due to size of your toon.

Originally Posted by REELDAWG

I was never satisfied with the 12volt system. 1/2 way thru the day I would notice I needed to increase the power to keep speed. Now I run a 24volt trolling motor on 16'skiff. I run everything on the boat off those batts to keep weight down. I'm running a minn Kota 80# autopilot. I do have a question. The ipilot controller runs thru batts like I do fried chicken. Two full days and the batt in controller is dead. Anybody else have this problem? The batts the controller uses are expensive.

That doesn't sound right. I ran mine for close to two years before installing a new one.

REELDAWG you don't run your DF off those 2 batteries do you?

Agreed. I ran across a thread on crappie.com from a few years back. Looks like minn Kota spaces a sony batt and not many others will work. http://www.crappie.com/crappie/fishi...lity-solution/

Originally Posted by REELDAWG

I was never satisfied with the 12volt system. 1/2 way thru the day I would notice I needed to increase the power to keep speed. Now I run a 24volt trolling motor on 16'skiff. I run everything on the boat off those batts to keep weight down. I'm running a minn Kota 80# autopilot. I do have a question. The ipilot controller runs thru batts like I do fried chicken. Two full days and the batt in controller is dead. Anybody else have this problem? The batts the controller uses are expensive.

A battery last me about a year, maybe a little more. I always keep an extra in the boat.

Make sure when your done fishing hold the pause button down till the remote goes black.when I would just hold down the prop button to turn off remote I went thru a battery every 2 or 3 months.now one battery last all year.hope this helps you.