Minn Kota Riptide Terrova 80 BT/i-Pilot-LINK Electric outboard for salt water

Below is an overview of the most important features of i-Pilot Link:

•     Improved remote control with large LCD color touch screen and intuitive operation with definable screens, engine functions via keys controllable
•     Includes Minn Kota Bluetooth Heading Sensor - Bluetooth GPS Compass
•     Direct connection between electric outboard and Humminbird sonar for advanced control
•     Additional features like GoTo, Circle, Follow The Contour
•     Improved Spot Lock System
•     The precise GPS anchor
•     Innovative jog function for the exact shedding of edges and underwater mountains
•     Wireless communication via Bluetooth
•     simple software updates and motor control with iPhone or Android app
•     Recording and exact departure of own routes via iTrack system
•     Minn Kota Advanced AutoPilot system for automatic navigation of your boat
•     2500 spot locks can be stored directly in the i-Pilot Link remote control
•     Cruise Control Cruise control for driving at a given speed
•     With CoPilot for quick and easy control of the fishing boat

The workmanship of the Minn Kota Terrova Riptide BT + i Pilot Link is exemplary. The saltwater engine is designed for maximum reliability and a long service life. Impressive is the new Lift Assist system to compensate for the engine's own weight. This helps to raise the Minn Kota Terrova Riptide BT + i Pilot Link with just one finger, and your outboard electric motor swings slightly into the water to lock in place. So also works to unlock and catch up. This makes a quick change of location very easy and back-friendly. The mechanism is smooth and quiet. Also helpful is the new practical lever for securing and unlocking the engine in holding position without bending over and force, just tap and your engine is unlocked.

The volume of Minn Kota on the Terrova Riptide BT is very effective. By optimizing the frequency, unpleasant sounds are filtered out as if over water, and thus neither fish nor your nerves are scared away. That's what makes the legendary smoothness of Minn Kota trolling engines.

Optionally, you get a matching foot pedal for the Minn Kota Terrova Riptide BT + i-Pilot Link - useful for a flexible and accurate control of your boat. The Minn Kota Terrova Riptide BT with i-Pilot Link has a handy on / off switch that lets you quickly turn off the trolling motor.

The rest of the equipment of this saltwater engine is quite convincing. The strong Weedless Wedge II propeller chops through thick herbs like a bread knife, the digital battery indicator always shows you the effective state of charge of your battery - so you avoid misjudging your reserve tank. The Digital Maximizer provides up to 5x longer battery life and the sturdy but flexible composite shaft of the electric outboard absorbs hard bumps without bending or breaking.

Information about batteries and chargers for Minn Kota electric outboards

Please note that Minn Kota electric motors require special batteries and matched electronic chargers with a specific characteristic. A car battery, ie starter batteries is not suitable and can be broken after a very short period of use. The best battery for Minn Kota engines is Rebelcell lithium-ion batteries that you can find here. Alternatively, but heavier, called Deep Cycle AGM Batteries you'll find here. For advice on which batteries and charging technology are best suited for your project, please contact us at any time.

Equipment and features

i-Pilot Link

i-Pilot Link is the evolution of the i-Pilot by Minn Kota and has the same features. In addition, it offers advantages and improvements that make boat fishing much easier. It's available as a pre-installed feature for select Minn Kota Riptide Terrova models and is cheaper than upgrading. With i-Pilot Link, the Riptide Terrova and your Humminbird sonar can communicate. This allows you to control your fishing boat via the iPilot Link Touch Screen Remote or via your Humminbird Sonar. Simply mark an interesting point on the depth chart in the echo sounder display and i-Pilot Link keeps the Terrova in exactly that position. It is even smarter when different spots are defined along a depth line or edge along your echosounder and they are then connected by i-Pilot to a route. In the same way you can select depth lines that can be automatically skipped. Up to 66 routes, each 3.2 km in length, can be recorded and precisely driven. Very popular is the spot lock function for anchoring. Here, i-Pilot Link keeps the fishing boat exactly where you want it. This is great if you have discovered a school of fish. Up to 2500 spot locks are possible. New is the circle mode, with which you can bypass a waypoint at a self-determined distance. Perfect for vertical fishing.

Touch screen remote control

From the new 2017 i-Pilot Link, the i-Pilot Link remote control has a unique full color touch screen remote control that controls all i-Pilot Link functions. It is even individually configurable and the screen rotates automatically by 180 ° with appropriate rotation. Among other things, you will see the current setting, menus, GPS signal strength, RPM speed or battery status. Of course, the i-Pilot Link remote control is waterproof. Tip: Incidentally, you can train as many i-Pilot Link remote controls as you like on a Minn Kota with i-Pilot.

Bluetooth i-Pilot Link

The new revised i-Pilot Link system has a Bluetooth interface for communication between the engine and the remote control. Likewise the control over a Smartphone App is now possible, And over it at any time software updates are possible, in the future your system with further improvements and functions to equip and to improve. Thanks to Bluetooth, it is possible to integrate a second digital GPS compass, which can be mounted on the rear of your fishing boat. This determines the position of the stern and bow and thus uses the entire length of the boat to keep the boat at 1 ° in the water at one point. This is an impressive result and the most accurate and fastest GPS anchor ever. Your fishing boat stands like an island in the wind and waves.

 

Track contour lines

Follow the Contour is a feature of i-Pilot Link where your boat automatically follows a contour line at a speed you specify. This can e.g. a depth line or a ground hardness area if the corresponding data is available with AutoChart Live. You can even set a distance to a soil hardness range. That's ideal for anglers.

app

The new Minn Kota i-Pilot and i-Pilot Link system have the ability to pair your Riptide Terrova BT with the smartphone via Bluetooth. This is possible with a free App from the App Store or Google Play. The app allows the control of the Minn Kota Riptide Terrova BT via smartphone. Convenient, if the Bluetooth remote control remained at home or the battery is dead. It also allows you to register your engine officially with Minn Kota and be informed about the latest software updates that you can upload directly to the Riptide Terrova BT. Thus, by further development of the software by the manufacturer, the performance of i-Pilot and i-Pilot Link can be improved and additional new functions can be added. Software updates are essential in echosounders as they continually improve performance. Nice that this is now possible with electric motors.

 

Saltwater benefits

The Minn Kota Riptide motors are designed for use in corrosive conditions in brackish and salt water and have a number of special features that prevent corrosion. This includes, for example, a three-layer special coating: Using high-end grade marine aluminum, an anodising and impact-resistant protective layer is first pulled. Followed by a primer layer of zinc finally a 127 micron thick layer of white polyester is applied. All electronic components have been cast into special grade marine grade resin in the Riptide Minn Kotas, while electrical connections have been additionally coated with salt and water tight heat shrink tubing. The sensitive electronics are thus not attacked even under the most corrosive conditions in tropical salt water. In order to prevent any kind of galvanic corrosion, Minn Kota uses only materials that are not affected by corrosion per se in all Riptide engines in addition to composite materials. Only a zinc sacrificial anode is the only saltwater attack option, effectively preventing corrosion on your Minn Kota Riptide outboard.

Quick & Easy folding function

With a handle purely. With one out again. Simple and fast - this is exactly how the Quick & Easy folding and unfolding function of the new Minn Kota Riptide Terrova will work from 2017 onwards. How much easier and faster this compared to other electric motors has to be experienced, because: The entire construction is perfect balanced and glides butter-soft, without any effort and by itself into the water and out again. The next trick is the integrated main fuse, which turns on the Terrova by itself when unfolding or turns off again when folding.

 

 

 

Jog function

The new jog function, the innovation since 2017, allows you to move Spot Lock by any number of 1.5 meters in any direction. Simply press the corresponding arrow key and the boat will be offset by this length. Double-clicking leads to 3 meters offset and so on. This feature is ideal for spin fishing enthusiasts who want to drop off edges and other hotspots. Perfect even if you just want to move a few meters in order to dodge or to make a small correction.

Lift Assist System

The new Lift Assist by Minn Kota is available on all Riptide Terrova models. This is a coil of spring steel installed on the shaft, which compensates for the weight of the engine. As if by magic, the Riptide Terrova glides into the water after a brief purr and even locks in on its own. Conversely, it is just as easy: Unlock and grab with one hand just under the engine, which is then absolutely smooth and, above all, soft to lift out of the water and locks in the holding position. A must-have for all anglers who want to make intensive changes, which is indispensable with modern predator fishing techniques and tactics.

Weedles Wedge 2 Propeller

The Weedless Wedge 2 Propeller is the best and most efficient propeller from Minn Kota. A special and patented propeller design ensures that water plants are pushed aside and do not even get into the propeller of the Terrova. And even if this is the case, the last remnants are immediately and reliably chopped up. The big advantage: An enormous discharge of battery and motor coil, which would otherwise be damaged in case of overloading in the long run. Incidentally, weedless wedge 2 propellers work so well that even at very low speeds, driving through water plants and cabbage fields is no problem.

Scope of delivery:

•      Minn Kota Terrova Riptide 80 BT + i-Pilot Link, 152cm, 80 lbs thrust, 24 V
•      connection cable
•      i-Pilot Link with associated i-Pilot Link remote control
•      German and English user manual
•      Minn Kota Bluetooth Heading Sensor