Off season upgrades, what say you.


TurboJoe said:
Thanks! Been a lot of planning and work.

Figuring out how I want everything to power up, what breakers it all goes on, etc has been a chore. Electrical control and automation is what I do for a living, but even still I found I quickly got myself into control/power loops and had to change my configuration.
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Tell me more about these control/power loops..what were the symptoms?


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I didn't get to the symptoms, figured it out as I was wiring. Basically all the simrad stuff has a yellow wire that when given 12V it turns on the device (so long as the main power and ground is connected). The devices can then be set to master or slave, so you can have one chart plotter turn everything else on. I was wiring all the yellows together and then realized after some connection that I wanted the two plotters separate since one was acting as engine management. So now I plan on giving the smaller one's yellow wire a signal from the ignitions (using two diodes) to start up with ignition power. Then the larger one will turn on the network switch, radar, AP. My main worry was I didn't want everything always on drawing the battery at the same time.

I think I have it correct now. Also had to figure out what circuit to power the nmea2000 network off of, how to power/switch on/off the ais etc. Then the depth switch is obsolete since the simrad unit doesn't need the external module. I repurposed the depth switch and breaker for AIS. Just lots to think about.
 
TurboJoe said:
I didn't get to the symptoms, figured it out as I was wiring. Basically all the simrad stuff has a yellow wire that when given 12V it turns on the device (so long as the main power and ground is connected). The devices can then be set to master or slave, so you can have one chart plotter turn everything else on. I was wiring all the yellows together and then realized after some connection that I wanted the two plotters separate since one was acting as engine management. So now I plan on giving the smaller one's yellow wire a signal from the ignitions (using two diodes) to start up with ignition power. Then the larger one will turn on the network switch, radar, AP. My main worry was I didn't want everything always on drawing the battery at the same time.

I think I have it correct now. Also had to figure out what circuit to power the nmea2000 network off of, how to power/switch on/off the ais etc. Then the depth switch is obsolete since the simrad unit doesn't need the external module. I repurposed the depth switch and breaker for AIS. Just lots to think about.
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Great stuff.....I can totally appreciate what you're going through....sounds you are on the right track!
 
New wheel installed. Thanks Radiocontester.
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Wonderful RC! Our helms are going to end up looking very similar...

I've been playing around with my FLIR M625S. Wow - what an impressive tool that is.
 
radiocontester said:
Thanks GS!

Thanks JL! Don't temp me on the Flir....if I pulled the trigger I think my wife would pull the trigger LOL....
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It's probably the best toy I got, was just down there to see what it looks like at night. Too many lights around the marina but here are 2 pics for comparison:

(The robust software on the forum insists on rotating the images... grrrr....)


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Have the dash all in place and everything powered up. Just have some debugging to do and some minor changes before I button it all up.
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