At 01:07 PM 1/31/2008, Peter Gelinas wrote: >YUP! A bit more than I expected $575 +tax and shipping > >Anyone out there know of an independant repair person for a ST6000+ > >Peter
Sounds about right. For Raymarine. You could try asking an independent to take a look. Unless it's something pretty obvious, like a broken wire, bad solder joint, etc. I wouldn't count on it. My understanding is even Raymarine just pulls and replaces the board. Kind of the way of things electronic these days ( 37 years as a broadcast engineer, the last 5 or 6 or so as mostly a "board replacer"). As an aside, I wouldn't have any Raymarine equipment on board ever again. Well, if I find something used at a good enough price to just throw it away at failure.... The story: Hit by lightning shortly after setting sail in 01. All manufacturers were informed and decided to replace or repair under warranty, including Raymarine. Several weeks after shipping off ST 4000 +, got a call. "We don't know why we told you we'd repair this under warranty. We don't do that and should not have told you we would. It'll be $600 + shipping." Paid the money. Some time later, the wind vane went out. Called Raymarine. Yep, still under warranty. Shipped windvane and interface. About a month later, got a call. "We see you had a lighting hit in the past, so can't repair under warranty. $150 + shipping." New unit is $250, so give them my credit card number. About another month later, got the unit back. "Replaced interface board. Vane sensor defective. No replacement parts. Did not repair." Called them back!!!!!!!!!!! Was told no parts, but they could send me a new one for $250 (full price) and I could keep the interface as a "spare". Rick Morel SV Valkyrie Port of Iberia, LA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Absolute safety is a concept promoted by those without the guts to live in the real world. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
