I do a calibration on my ST4000+ wheel pilot every year and often I check it during the sailing season, especially if I have a longer trip planned alone.
_____ From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of wwadjo...@aol.com Sent: January 13, 2014 9:51 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Autohelm St4000 how it should work with the GPS Rich, Not every time power off, but it seems in spring after winter where batteries pulled and taken to basement that Need to Re swing the fluxgate and adjust the gain. Maybe not, but it seems to lose this memory over winter. Bill Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Rich Knowles" <r...@sailpower.ca> To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Subject: Stus-List Autohelm St4000 how it should work with the GPS Date: Mon, Jan 13, 2014 8:40 PM Hmm. Bill, If you are saying every time you shut off the power to the auto helm, the settings revert, that is not right. I've installed and set up many of them and never had that problem except for one unit. The problem with that one was an electrolytic capacitor that had been installed at the factory in the course computer with the polarity reversed. It caused the memory hold circuit to drain down with a consequent loss of settings. Raymarine fixed it. Not sure what unit you have, but you might have the same problem. Rich > On Jan 13, 2014, at 20:17, "wwadjo...@aol.com" <wwadjo...@aol.com> wrote: > > Ops, how does spell checker take autohelm to shrivel? Hmmmm. Another topic altogether. > > Sent from my HTC > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "wwadjo...@aol.com" <wwadjo...@aol.com> > To: <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Subject: Stus-ListAutohelm St4000 how it should work with the GPS > Date: Mon, Jan 13, 2014 7:15 PM > > Yeah, well Rich, tell that to my shrivel., please > Bill walker > > Sent from my HTC > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Rich Knowles" <r...@sailpower.ca> > To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Subject: Stus-List Autohelm St4000 how it should work with the GPS > Date: Mon, Jan 13, 2014 5:38 PM > > Not to be picky, but your last step should not be required every time you shut off the power. The settings are retained in non-volatile memory. > > Rich > > > On Jan 13, 2014, at 18:24, Wwadjourn <wwadjo...@aol.com> wrote: > > > > I almost shudder at posting in this thread, but . . . . . . > > One other point, read the manual, and set the gain on the auto pilot. You will never get optimum performance, read: a straight course, without doing this step in the set up, AND every time that power is completely removed from the pilot, e.g. winter storage. > > > > Bill Walker > > Evening Star > > CnC 36 > > Pentwater, Mi > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2247 / Virus Database: 3658/6498 - Release Date: 01/13/14
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