Raymarine Wiring

Re: Raymarine Wiring

feeds@yuku.com (pwinterfeld) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:08:25 GMT

Thanks for the endorsement, now I can go sailing, watch tv look, at the bottom in 3D, set the autopilot to the wind, have the radar on marp and never touch anything again (since I know that I will have the radar tell if I am gong to get hit by another boat in 20 minutes) other than pop a new can. until I get to wherever I am going. Ah !!! progress. Of course I have to run the generator to power all that stuff. Or ....I can shut all that stuff off - still pop a can and enjoy the piece...

Re: Raymarine Wiring

feeds@yuku.com (svzephyr44) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:15:27 GMT

No kidding - the E120 is a very pretty piece of gear. I might have considered it if they had not worked so hard at screwing me over with what I already own. Best of luck with it.

Re: Raymarine Wiring

feeds@yuku.com (pwinterfeld) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:21:16 GMT

I have a 2001 MK II and just recently we installed New Raymarine 70 instrument heads without changing any of the tranducers or wiring. All the Instruments work as designed, but too complicated and the instructions in the manuals are beyond me. I had the technician out several times to show me how to adjust the instruments (speed and Chartplotter) for my preferences, I could not figure the settings out by reading the instructions in the manuals. The E 120 chartplotter / radar is way beyond...

Re: Raymarine Wiring

feeds@yuku.com (svzephyr44) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:49:57 GMT

Rod:

Thanks for the info. I am getting rid of my Raymarine stuff. I think Raymarine only survives because Frank Butler, the Beneteau folks, etc. put their stuff on new construction. When I found out that they will not only not fix my ST-50 stuff but would not provide parts to their repair network to fix my stuff nor would they tell me the original source of the parts I swore I would never do business with them again.

It also bugs the heck out of me that they spike their...

Re: Raymarine Wiring

feeds@yuku.com (azure42) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:22:38 GMT

Roger,

Are you sure you need to change the transducers and wiring? Just last weekend I changed out all of my old ST50 instuments for ST60's, including a Graphic Display head at the nav station. All of my old wiring and transducers worked fine with the new instruments (although I'm not sure if they would have worked with the newest ST70 system).

Last year I sent my ST50 tri-data head to Raymarine to be bench-tested as I was getting crazy speed readings. They assured...

Re: Raymarine Wiring

feeds@yuku.com (knoteven) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:09:32 GMT

Thanks. My readout buttons have also failed. Just trying to find a stop gap.

Re: Raymarine Wiring

feeds@yuku.com (svzephyr44) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:00:57 GMT

Transducer for the depth gauge is non functional. Transducer for the speed gauge would require purchase of new thru hull tube. Depth head in good shape, speed head has real problems with buttons. Wind and Close Hauled wind in pretty good shape. If still interested send me a PM.

Re: Raymarine Wiring

feeds@yuku.com (knoteven) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:56:39 GMT

Roger

Are you interested in selling your speed / depth gauge?

Re: Raymarine Wiring

feeds@yuku.com (sashay567) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:30:47 GMT

In this picture from Irish Lady (#692) you can just make out the wiring chase Addison mentioned. Look at the very top middle of the picture where you can see the cabling from the foward cabin emerging from under the ply floor board.

Re: Raymarine Wiring

feeds@yuku.com (ajchan) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:30:11 GMT

It has been over a year since I've pulled it up, but on TPO, you will see the wiring race if you lift the floorboards. If you have the wiring schematics for your boat, you'll see both the forward and aft race illustrated as diagonal lines with the forward race running from port forward to starboard aft, and the aft race running more or less athwarship from just forward of the head to just forward of the galley.

Most of the forward race is actually in the salon, so if you tip...

Re: Raymarine Wiring

feeds@yuku.com (svzephyr44) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:35:38 GMT

I could swear that I picked up the floor in the pullman cabin and found nothing but solid deck. But you are saying I should find an open top to the race? Am I understanding you correctly?

Re: Raymarine Wiring

feeds@yuku.com (ajchan) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:17:54 GMT

Roger

There is a wiring race molded into the fiberglass subfloor that runs from ~ the starboard fwd corner of the mast to under the chart table. All of the wires are encased in flexible conduit, which is clipped down at 8 inch intervals. There isn't a whole lot of room to work with as you've noted, but it is possible to reach the underside of the wiring race, by sticking your arm in through the little door at the aft end of the pullman.

To access the top of the...

Raymarine Wiring

feeds@yuku.com (svzephyr44) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:10:24 GMT

I am replacing my Raymarine ST50 wind, depth and speed gauges. I have removed the speed and depth transducers and found that the three wires that run from the transducers (under the forward pullman bunk) to the instrument cluster are all at the bottom of the mast. Unfortunately the access to the area is very limited so I can't really see where they go. My question, how are they routed aft from there? I would like to either pull them out, or pull them out and use the pull to place a...