Right now I'm thinking I will sail with the Depth and the wind "True / App" and the speed paddle if I can get it to work and then the new Garmin Echo50s and leave it a lone for a while. I will go tonight and hookup the flux gate and the wind and take a new look at the (+) (-) on the GPS and the Autohelm st4000
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Robert Abbott <robertabb...@eastlink.ca>wrote: > Curtis: > > You have had lots of advice...here's my take...even though I have a GPS > chartplotter and a handheld GPS, I would not be without my old Signet speed > instrument. Simply to say, I just like it as it read 2 digits after the > decimal point in big digital numbers in the cockpit.....and it is very > responsive. > > A few years back, the transducer failed.....bummer....called Signet in > California, they sent me a new transducer attached to 30' feet of > cable....guy on the phone said to not splice the wires/cable from the > transducer to the cockpit display....said it wouldn't work > properly....didn't say why? Said to run the new cable from the new > transducer to the cockpit display.....yes right......easy for C&C to do it > when they were building the boat, not so easy now in the same place(s). > > So we spliced the new transducer onto the old cable to the cockpit > display......has been working fine. > > And they threw in 2 of the 6" display covers for free. > > Rob Abbott > AZURA > C&C 32 - 84 > Halifax, N.S. > > > > On 2014/01/14 8:31 AM, Curtis wrote: > >> >> I worked with the paddle wheel last night ad was able to clean it. It >> now spins freely but shows however it still has no activity on the >> ohms meter. All that being said, how much does this speed help you >> anyway? I mean it will tell me how fast the river is passing under my >> boat but not if I’m making speed? The GPS tells me distance over the >> ground, I have been sailing real good before and not making much >> distance over the ground. What are your thoughts on this? I will hook >> it back up and try it tonight after work. But if there is no activity >> on the meter It may have a bad wire or something. >> >> Thanks for you guys helping me out. I take no offence I know I’m green >> at all of this and expect a bit of new guy jokes and slapping around. >> It’s all good with me I’m just glad to have someone to ask help from. >> I am very glad you guys are her. >> >> Curtis >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > -- *At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.- Robin Lee Graham*
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