The original unit's plug it made no difference. This proves - once andįor all - that the problem is in the Raymarine unit(s). The unit kept shutting itself off and sometimes on again. No voltage when the tiller-pilot shut itself off.Ĭonstant 13-plus volts throughout the afternoon without fail even while He expected the voltmeter to demonstrate this, to show Suspected power fluctuations or loss through the plug and socket Lee also wanted me to connect a voltmeter to the power wires. To it's dedicated and fully-charged 12V battery (see photos above). His latest theory of what's wrong - and hardwired the unit directly Yesterday, at the direction of Lee the Raymarine technician, I eliminated both the plug and socket. Great Britain the day this one was assembled. They must have had better quality control at their manufacturing site in On the new unit's plug, I found the set screws very tight, the connections good. The solution seemed obvious at the time, though it didn't solve the problem.
On my first visit, Lee Tang found the two power wires loose in the unit's cable plug, the tiny set screws The power doesn't return on its own I have to unplug then replug Outboard or any other electrical connection can be ruled out.īesides, why does the tiller-pilot fail while strictly underĪnother observation: often if I just wait long enough after it shuts itself off, it turns itself back on, but off again after a while, then on again.
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Series 27 battery - interference from the With its dedicated power source - its own fully-charged, isolated
Using Battery One I'm baffled how this can be. But with the battery switch set to Battery Two and the tiller-pilot alone I considered the possibility that the problem has something to do with the outboard, perhaps the alternator charging system. I've noticed that the intermittent shutdowns seem to happen more frequently when the motor is running - though even just under sail it This too produced no improvement, no difference. Next I tried isolating the tiller-pilot entirely, switching over to Battery Two for everything else, dedicating Battery One This too proved to be another waste of time that made no difference. The new socket onto the cockpit coaming, replacing my original cable and I also ran the new cable beneath the cockpit, fastened it It worked for a while, but later in the day again beganįurther up the coast at my next port, I replaced the alligator clips with crimped on ring connectors and connected them directly to Battery I ran the cable out the companionway across the cockpit and attached the new (the larger of the two, which I was using at that time to run everything). New unit - and it performed the same stunt, shutting down on its own! So I dug out Lee's newĬable/socket assembly, crimped a pair of alligator clips to the two paired power wires, and attached them to Battery One The first thing I did upon departure on my cruise was attempt to calibrate the I left, again certain the problem was solved, or would be. Wiring: replace both with his new cable/socket assembly. That if I still have the problem it could be either in my original socket or in my (There are four wires, two for power and two for data if you are connecting to other Raymarine instruments).
Two wires within the cable for each connection. He made upĪ complete new cable (that includes the permanent socket mounted on the cockpit coamingĪnd runs to the power supply). Lee Tang took me back to his bench again and got me an entirely new unit. On my extended Maine cruise the following Monday) I drove back up to Raymarine and demanded a new unit. The following day (a Friday, the last day I could reach Raymarine before I put it back on the boat, took Chip Ahoy out, and again attempted to calibrate it. He found the power and ground wires were not solidly connected with the tiny set screws inside the plug - the power lead was actually floating loose inside! He soldered both wires to their plug connections, benchtested the unit, and pronounced it working. Plug connector at the end of the unit's cable. Finally I drove it up to Raymarine's service center in Nashua, NH where a technician, Lee Tang, took me back to his bench and The first new unit kept intermittently shutting itself off every few The past months while struggling to make it work. Of my bad experience with it from the beginning and what I've done over Tiller-Pilot continues to baffle and confound me. The relentless failure of my Raymarine ST1000-Plus Of this miserably-flawed Raymarine tiller-pilot Read in Chip Ahoy’s Maine cruise log about the constant
The latest failed “solution”– elimination of the plug and socket CLICK THUMBNAIL PHOTOS BELOW FOR ENLARGED VIEW
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