Update number 1401.



I updated the trolling motor last night to v 1.4??? And 3.00

I doubt it’s gonna make a difference. I fished yesterday, all day, man I miss my anchor button! What a day. Dancing on the trolling pedal for & hours. It definitely cost me first place.

I am thinking it might be something with the mount. Maybe it has a sensor that doesn’t allow the spot lock to lock if it doesn’t think it’s fully deployed? Maybe? You know the prop will work even if ya pull the release handle, and it kills spot lock of you pull the cable. It’s acting like the troller is not locked into the mount. IDK. I’m fixing to go to a lake close to me and see if the updates did anything more than make me sit in the driveway and sweat

you wore it out like an ole gal flipped inside out

Do yourself a favor and take it to Texas atrolling motor repair at Lake Fork. The downside is they are only open 8-1. The positive, I just found out is that they will repair it while you wait. I just took mine in to for repair and expected them to keep it for a week or more but they had me fixed up within an hour. They seem to be very knowledgeable about the issues. They are an authorized mk repair center. I was impressed

Awesome, better than leaving it all star for 6 weeks, LOL

The reason I like to do repairs myself is I don’t have to leave my trolling motor with a shop. I have dropped it off one time, with Zach at Southwest. It was a dead motor. I smacked a big boulder with it and it started taking on water. If the motor housing and motor weren’t permanently mounted to the shaft, I would have done the repair. Instead, that was more than I wanted to take on at the time.

I'm about to get "between a rock and a hard place" as my mom used to say, on my Fortrex. The part where the motor attaches to the shaft is real rusty, figure it won't be long and it's going to snap off and I'll be buying an Ultrex, Ghost, or Force. A repair probably wouldn't be in the card as far as feasability and cost. Anybody ever dealt with this?

#1402


Went to the lake. It didn’t work. I fished anyways. I used the power poles a lot.

Got home and was planning on tearing into it and deployed the motor. Then I grabbed the remote and turned it on. Remote said “new software found” “install now?”

Duh. It didn’t install the remote software update because, like I said before, I don’t use it often. Then the remote did it’s 5 minutes of updating. Now, at least in the driveway, it’s working.

Yesterday on the remote “diagnostics screen” it said volts: 3.82, motor heading: 190* , sensor heading: ____

Today, after updating it said volts:3.81, motor heading :190*, sensor heading : 208*.


It also displayed on the screen the correct functions for spot lock. It also added a few things, like fishing in a circle around a waypoint. That outta be fun.

I feel it’s maybe 40% gonna work. I dunno. PITA.

Thats because you are heading forward when hitting the spot lock button. The ultra spot locks you onto the spot where you hit the button. Took me awhile but finally figured it out and I get myself into position before hitting it.

Sorry, the software update didn't resolve your issues, always a good idea to have the latest and greatest versions installed

It may have fixed it. I’ll find out tomorrow. Haha