Replaced my old dying Signet Smartpak system with TackTick. They are now part of RayMarine. Love having the displays in the cockpit for daysailing and on the mast when racing and inside when dockside. The solar powered displays click into mounting bases and they give you an extra set to mount inside for safe keeping. I like being able to check the wind and depth and water temp form the nav station, without having to turn on battery power. I can easily unclick the displays and take them home for the winter. Very Cool.
I had to enlarge the thru hulls to fit the new (included in kit) depth and speed sensors, which are better than the old ones. I'll send some JPGs of the hole saw trick used to cut the hole. Chuck Resolute 1990 C&C 34R Atlantic City, NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Donnelly" <da...@gnuattitude.ca> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 8:49:39 PM Subject: Re: Stus-List Nexus NX2 Instruments Now that my season is over I am starting on my list of winter projects, one of which is adding new instruments. I had been considering a Raymarine package of speed depth and wind but the Nexus NX looks very good for my needs as well. I won't have a chart plotter installed (only lake sailing) so I don't need the capabilities that most of the listers would require. I sailed all summer with an antiquated depth gage which I didn't trust and my hand held GPS. Didn't find the bottom so thats good but I didn't like not knowing how deep the water was. My first question is regarding the wireless wind transducer on the Nexus system. Wireless is everywhere nowadays so I am sure that it isn't bad but I wonder about things like maintenance and battery life. The Raymarine gear is wired for all the transducers but I find it appealing not to have to fish a cable through the mast. Any experience on the list with wireless instruments and/or specifically this brand. Second question, I have a speed transducer now as well which is worn out, and a separate thru hull for the depth. What are the opinions of the list regarding the single larger transducer or having separate speed and depth. I don't know the diameter of the existing I am hoping to use the same locations if possible. Can these thru hulls be enlarged? Regards, David Donnelly C&C 26 Mistress On 09/10/2013 3:46 PM, Dennis C. wrote: I have the old Nexus instruments and have been very pleased with them. Put them on the boat in 1999. Only failure was a knotmeter transducer. That may have been due to my practice of removing the transducer after every sail. The transducer had no stress relief where the wire came out of the transducer. The wire or shield may have broken at the interface. I slipped a couple pieces of heat shrink down the cable, shrank them at the interface then poured epoxy around the heat shrink. Cured the problem. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 4:39 PM, Frederick G Street <f...@postaudio.net> wrote: <blockquote> Bob -- what instruments are you replacing? Speed/depth? Wind? If you want true NMEA2K displays, you only have a few choices; Raymarine i70 (technically SeaTalkNG, but talks to NMEA2K), Garmin GMI10, Furuno FI50 ( not certified NMEA2000, but will talk to NMEA2K) or Simrad IS40. As far as I know, the Nexus systems still use a central "server" that all displays and transducers connect to (Nexus is now owned by Garmin). A true NMEA2000 system would have all the displays and transducers connected to the NMEA2000 backbone. Raymarine has a reasonably-priced way to do that using older non-NMEA2K transducers; it's the ITC-5, and will accept inputs from older Raymarine depth, speed, wind and rudder transducers, then put all that data into SeaTalkNG form (also readable by NMEA2K). List is $265 (you can get for under $250). Add a couple of i70 displays for $535 list ($460) and a SeaTalkNG cabling kit and you're done, assuming you have the transducers installed in the first place. Simrad has a depth/speed/wind package with all transducers, backbone cabling and ONE IS40 display for a list of $1599 (you can get it for around $1200). Add another IS40 display for a list of $599 (around $450). Furuno doen't have a very good track record so far with their NMEA2K instruments; you don't see too many around. And Garmin has the display, but not so much for NMEA2K transducers. Maybe others on the list have some comments on the Nexus systems; but that's NOT going to be a true NMEA2K system as far as the displays go. Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI On Oct 9, 2013, at 4:00 PM, Bob Hickson < bobhick...@rogers.com > wrote: <blockquote> Over the winter, I will be shopping for a new instrument package to replace the old Data Marine units on my 29-2. I would prefer to install an instrument system using the NMEA 2000 / NX2 protocol. Does anyone have experience (good or bad) with Nexus instruments http://www.nexusmarine.se/ The new “race box” sounds interesting _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com </blockquote> _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com </blockquote> _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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