DATA DAMPING: Rate of Turn setting?

[CptMorgan]

I just installed a replacement autopilot remote and was checking the network settings.
TZT3 DATA DAMPING -> RATE OF TURN was set at 10 seconds
The other settings were 1 or 2 seconds.
What is a typical value for RATE OF TURN? 10 seconds seems really slow for anything that can do 20knots.
I find our autopilot is slow to react, but I'm not sure it's related.

 

[Sparky Wire]

So damping or smoothing of displayed data doesn't change anything for other devices or raw data coming out of a unit. If you are smoothing the data shown on the TZT3 screen it will not change anything on the pilot side of things.

Rate of turn of the pilot is normally based on how fast your steering allows and then you can slow it down some if needed via the pilot setting. You can NOT set the pilot rate of turn to be faster than the pilot steering/hydraulics will move. When the installer puts in the pilot, they should be properly rating the pump and checking to see how fast the pilot can turn by looking at the "rate of turn" results shown in the rudder test. So if the pilot says it can run 10 degrees per second it doesn't mean you should run the pilot that fast. A larger boat (say 50ft) would normally have a rate of turn setting lowered to about 4 or 5 degrees per second regardless of how fast the steering can pump.

When dealing with steering I always recommend checking how fast your can manually pump the steering (using the dodge buttons) from hard over to hard over. How many seconds is yours? How many feet is your boat? Single or multi-rudder?