Long short. If the head has the controller in it, such as a ST4000, ST4000+, ST6000 ... when it starts acting up place a cloth over it and soak it in ice water for a minute or so. If the unit starts working normally you likely have a component overheating.
I have fixed two by noticing where the circuit board was discolored and replacing the component. One was the three pin voltage regulator and the other was the wire out to the wheel drive. Michael Brown Windburn C&C 30-1 From: Tom Buscaglia <[email protected]> Well, yesterday, as we left our overnight anchorage, I did a full reset of the autopilot. Followed by the linearization that only showed a 3 degree deviation. This indicates there are no issues with the compass being influenced by and ferrous interference. A few of the rudder setting were way off and I was hoping that would resolve any issues. One thing I did notice is that the pilot was not receiving the GPS info from my e7 MFD. Once everything was done we set out. Things seemed ok for a while. The excessive course hunting stopped and she was holding course fine. No circuit breaker issues either. Then she just started to wander to port... Restart would settle things down, but in a few minutes she would go off on me again. it just deteriorated from there so we went manual from there. When I installed the MFD myself a few years ago I used the appropriate Gtalk ti Gtalk ng converter and all of the G60 instruments show up on the MFD. but I didn?t go at all into the interface. At this point I suspect there is a software version mismatch. I found the update .iso that will load the update for the pilot onto it via the MFD. I?ll need to get home to download it and see if the helps. The below deck conversion looks like something I may consider either doing myself or using my checkbook. But I better get the Pilot?s brain working right first... Tom Buscaglia S/V Alera 1990 C&C 37+/40 Vashon WA P 206.463.9200 C 305.409.3660
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