Quote Originally Posted by moombahighrider View Post
Matt, a slightly related question: when turning surf off, would that not start adjusting your ballast settings to go to wakeboard instead of surf? That is one of the reasons I would leave port surf on between riders, but I always shut the engine off when switching riders.
You are correct. If you turned surf off and left key on, then it would try and adjust ballast to wakeboard settings. However, if you turn surf off, then turn key off, then it wouldn't have time to really even turn the ballast pump on. When key is off, it wouldn't try and adjust.

Also, after a little more testing I found that if you leave the key off long enough, WITH the surf switch still on port surf, then eventually it would get into a hard boot startup. On a hard boot, it would actually reset the plates, then see the input, then correct the issue. So, lets say you left the port side switch on. Rider number 1 is finished so you pick them up, turn key off. If that rider changes his mind and wants to ride or you turned the key off to give them instruction, then the glitch might happen. But if you turn key off, change riders and that takes a few minutes, then you would actually then see a hard boot and with a hard boot, the glitch would not happen. Which in turn makes the glitch even more random. Bottom line is we have a problem, thanks to your help we have found it, and I have asked the vendor to fast track the solution and I will try to make it as easy as possible to correct. In the mean time hopefully I have given some ideas of how to prevent the glitch from happening until we can get the solution.

Another fix around the glitch is you can bump the safety lanyard to turn key off without actually turning the display off. Again, most people probably didn't even realize you can do that, but with key on, you can push the red button of the safety lanyard at anytime and actually it will turn off ignition. However, it doesn't cycle display power which in turn doesn't send a random ground signal causing the glitch to start with. Hopefully we will have a solution in hand before many of you even get back to the water but that is just another tip if you didn't know that.