Hi Folks,
when I try and run our autohelm in windvane -- it has never worked....that we know of, I only discovered it was able to steer to the wind 2 days ago (we have sailed this boat some 7000 nm) -- most the time set to course.
I see that the port 1 and port 2 are both set to nmea data out and nmea data in has no awa or aws.
I have read the manuals and compared the diagrams to what I see in the nmea (rats nest) and the autohelm processing unit. In the rats nest there is a group of wires labelled l500 to data 2...in the autohelm setup port 2 is set as an outbound port.
So my question is this .... what configuration should the autohelm have? or is it a wiring issue?
is the wind sensor feed directly to the autohelm or does it get processed by the fl50 and then sent to the autohelm?
when I try and run our autohelm in windvane -- it has never worked....that we know of, I only discovered it was able to steer to the wind 2 days ago (we have sailed this boat some 7000 nm) -- most the time set to course.
I see that the port 1 and port 2 are both set to nmea data out and nmea data in has no awa or aws.
I have read the manuals and compared the diagrams to what I see in the nmea (rats nest) and the autohelm processing unit. In the rats nest there is a group of wires labelled l500 to data 2...in the autohelm setup port 2 is set as an outbound port.
So my question is this .... what configuration should the autohelm have? or is it a wiring issue?
is the wind sensor feed directly to the autohelm or does it get processed by the fl50 and then sent to the autohelm?