I've had this trolling motor for about a month. I have never had one prior to this. It is on a Key West 239FS and I have the white 75" model. I'm running 3 lead acid batteries, 2 of which are not deep cycle. This is until my lithium battery gets here :). So far my friends and I are impressed with the trolling motor. I've been in strong wind and current, and it holds just fine - and only using 1/2 power. The anchor lock on the motor itself is really handy, docking under a bridge and getting the motor down quickly before drifting away, I immediately hit the anchor button. Then fine tune the position when I get settled in. Nice feature! The wireless communication to my MFD (1243) works flawlessly. Every time I turn it on - it connects without any intervention. It works great from the screen too! I often use the anchor lock from the screen, while looking at the sonar to find my 'spot'. I also use it for navigating to a waypoint on the screen. Some caveats to this is when you tell the GPS to navigate to a spot it will ask you to engage the trolling motor. I hit "engage" and it does nothing. You need to turn on the prop after doing so. When you set the prop speed, that is what it does. You can have it go fast, or slow. Doesn't bother me, but know the speed is what you set. Once it gets close, it will anchor lock. I notice it always stops short of the mark. Not far, maybe 5~10 feet but it never gets right to it. Usually I just overshoot where I want to go or use the jog feature. The jog feature is nice, it tells you how many feet it will do the jog so you can just do a few feet, or 30+. The gesture control works good - but only for quick changes. It's very easy to get it to steer suddenly. What I have found useful is using the gesture to get it going in the general direction, then use the buttons to fine tune it.
All in all, I think it works great. I love that it connects to my MFD and best of all I didn't have to run wires to it. The batteries have lasted me all day, even with the bad setup I have. Some things can be improved, like getting closer to the waypoint and maybe getting the gesture control to work a tad bit better. But, it has way more pros then cons!
