Mine does that every few years i remove the pin connections and clean off with
alcohol and coat with wd 40 or dialectical grease and problem went away. It
did it this week on the way to cuttyhunk and i slaped the head it has worked
since then. The salt gets on the connections i think
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-------- Original message --------From: Edd Schillay via CnC-List
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Date: 7/16/17 1:58 PM (GMT-05:00) To:
cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Edd Schillay <e...@schillay.com> Subject: Stus-List
Raymarine Autopilot Question
Listers,
Yesterday, on a dinner trip to Oyster Bay, our autopilot stated to malfunction
after about an hour or so.
It would be holding a course, then start veering to port, then to starboard,
then much more to port, then much more to starboard . . and so on. Eventually,
it would get so far off (over 90 degrees), a the autopilot would disengage. I
shut it down and tried to restart it by cutting power to it for about a minute,
then it would happen again after a minute or two.
I tries setting the p70 to “performance” to keep the boat more tightly on
course, but that had no effect. The display kept showing how far off we were
(so I know the EV sensor core was working), but it wasn’t correcting course
properly.
I ended up turning it off completely, in fears of getting a DUI inquiry from
all the S-turns.
Any ideas? To clarify, I have a ACU-200 and a ST4000+ wheel pilot. And, up
until yesterday, it was working flawlessly.
All the best,
Edd
Edd M. SchillayStarship EnterpriseC&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-BCity Island, NY
Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log
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