I've had that happen several times until I figured out what was wrong.
If you're engaging it to "track", in other words, to steer to a
waypoint, you need to engage "track" immediately after setting your
chartplotter to "navigate to". If you set the chartplotter to "navigate
to" a waypoint, then later tell the autopilot to "track" to that
waypoint, it will immediately head for the previously plotted track,
then once it reaches the previously plotted track, it will steer to the
selected waypoint. Very disconcerting when you don't know what it's doing.
On 8/8/2017 2:41 PM, Mike Rose via CnC-List wrote:
Ok.
I've been cruising for a 1.5 weeks and the autopilot has performed better than
ever before. Until today. It rained heavily last night, and the head-end is
mounted next to the helm. I've only ever engaged it using the fluxgate compass.
Today, as soon as I pressed Auto, the motor turned the wheel to port without
stopping. I've tried it several times over the past two hours and same thing.
Powered off and on, no difference. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Mike
s/v Shannon Rose
C&C 39
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