Brad — Graham’s advice is smack on. If your old drive still works (and is
adequate for the boat’s displacement), you can use it with a new autopilot
control unit. If you’re going with the EV-100, you’ll still want to have the
p70 control head; you can enable/disable the pilot from the a95, but
Hi Brad
The drive for an Autohelm will work with a newer pilot, it is (in fancy
packaging) just a motor. Last season I ran the wheel drive from my old
Autohelm 4000 system connected to the control box for my new EV-200
system. This spring (if it ever warms up here) I hope to get the linear
d
Hello Fred
Really appreciate people like yourself stepping up to help. Was to the boat
yesterday and brought the head unit back with me, it's definitely "Autohelm
4000". So I've bought the lower case "a" 95 MFD and a set of i50/i60
instruments. looks like I need the evolution EV-100 autopilot m
Well that's pretty clear. You Raymarine guys got it going on.
From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Frederick
G Street via CnC-List
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 9:48 AM
To: Bradley Lumgair; cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Subject: Re: Stus-List Auto helm and Raym
Hi, Brad. In a previous life, I was a certified Raymarine dealer/installer and
ABYC/NMEA-certified in marine electrical and electronics, so maybe I can help
out.
First off, yes, it was Autohelm, then Raytheon, then Raymarine; and Raymarine
went through several ownership iterations since, now b
You need to figure out what language each component is speaking. Most
likely you will have NMEA 0183, NMEA2000 (N2K), and possibly 1 or 2
variants of Seatalk.
There is a reasonable chance that all of your components have the ability
to use NMEA 0183. You may have some "special" features limited
I'm trying to understand the whole auto helm thing and what works with what.
1985 C&C 33 with auto helm 4000, and Loran, obviously a problem. Purchased
Raymarine I50/I60 instrument package and A95 chartplotter (not delivered yet)
Spoke to a RayMarine rep at Toronto Boat Show who thought there wo
