FWIW, earlier this season, I replaced my TackTick wireless wind instrument with Raymarine's latest offering. You may recall Raymarine acquired TackTick some years ago. Except for the branding, The replacement is identical to the original, which worked well for 13 seasons. In fact, the original unit still works fine for wind SPEED, but it is unreliable for DIRECTION. Probably, I could have returned it for testing and possible repair, but I didn't want to deal with the cost of retrieval, downtime, and re-install [which assumes the unit could be repaired]. I like the unit. I don't like it when I can't get through to Raymarine. Since my old Datamarine knotmeter is finally giving it up, I purchased a suite of instruments - wind instrument + Tridata display, with wireless cap. could this work for you?
Pete W. Siren Song '91 C&C 30-2 Irvington, Va. On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 2:00 PM Marek Dziedzic via CnC-List < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am starting to think about adding the wind instrument to the boat. The > main reason is for being able to feed the data (wind direction) to the > EV-100 autopilot. > > > > I have a SeatalkNG network on the boat. I don’t have a Raymarine MFC, > though (I have a small Garmin chartplotter, instead). > > > > I am a minimalist (you could say “cheap”), so e.g., I don’t have a Navpod > on the binnacle; rather I have two individual RAM mount pods (for the > chartplotter and one for the p70s (the autopilot control head). > > > > I unstep the mast for every winter, so I am biased towards a wireless unit. > > > > I have a few questions: > > > > - Any recommendations for the wind instrument (Raymarine, Garmin, B&G)? My > first choice would be a unit that talks NMEA 2000 (SeatalkNG) (as opposed > to an analog unit that requires an extra device (iTC-5?) to connect. But > this is mainly to control the costs. > > > > - With limited space at the helm, what is the minimum requirement to feed > the wind data to the EV-100 autopilot? I don’t think I need the detailed > wind angle displayed, as long as the AP can follow. Though I could put the > wind display somewhere else (on the bulkhead?). But if that display is not > required AND I could save the cost by not including it, I might be fine > with that. > > > > - Any strong recommendations against the wireless? > > > > - Any other suggestions or recommendations? > > > > Thanks > > > > Marek > > > > 1994 C270 ”Legato” > > Ottawa, ON > > > > > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with > the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks > - Stu
Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu
