Re: Stus-List Octopus Linear Drive Question

2016-06-23 Thread Frederick G Street via CnC-List
Nope — it’s FOUR wires: two drive wires, and two clutch wires. The drive wires are the high-load ones, and go to the pump motor; reversing the polarity on them runs the pump in the other direction. The clutch wires can be small (12-14AWG) and engage/disengage the drive when you put the pilot i

Re: Stus-List Octopus Linear Drive Question

2016-06-23 Thread Joel Aronson via CnC-List
Fred, you there? Should be 3 wires - port starboard, neutral (I think) I have the EV 200 on my Hylas 44. Great unit, but Jake steers a better course downwind in quartering seas! Joel On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Edd Schillay via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Listers, > > Thi

Stus-List Octopus Linear Drive Question

2016-06-23 Thread Edd Schillay via CnC-List
Listers, This weekend, hopefully, I’m planning to connect my old Octopus Linear Drive to a brand new Raymarine EV200 Autopilot. Is anyone familiar with the Octopus drive and its wiring, or have a link to a wiring manual? Is it just two wires or is there more to it? By the way, we’ll be naming