Re: AUTOHELM 7000 PROBLEM

Another very troublesome measurement for Raymarine owners may be more
ominous than all of this.  Take a look at the stock price of Raymarine over
the last month.....

Maybe somebody notice they had to replace 4 of our radar domes....(c;

This is one of those situations where measuring the voltage with the system
not under load isn't good enough.  If you have a poor connection, the
voltage will drop under load, causing the AP to drop off-line.  

I know that my MasterView display can show system voltage and I believe
that was partially how I found the problem one of the times.  I'm not sure
if you can display that on a ST6000/ST7000 control head.

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org

Jerry <gpoore@yahoo.com> wrote in news:d6fcf7e0-a58c-4d5f-ab33-4896b8dd1024
@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com:

Got a voltmeter to measure the voltage supplied to the control head and
motor drive?  Still sounds like corrosion is causing intermittant power
interruption to one of them......or low voltage from dead house batteries.

I believe it shuts down on low battery voltage....

My autopilot switched from AUTO to STANDBY while out at sea. There was
an alrm sound but in the past when there was a problem, I would get a
message that said NO LINK or MOTOR STOPPED. There was no response to
pushing the AUTO button.  After turning the power on and off a few
times, I was able to get it to go back into AUTO but only for about 5
minutes when it returned to STANDBY.

After anchoring for a night with the power to the autopilot off, it
went into AUTO with no problem after turning on the power.

I did all the obvious checks for bad or loose connections but found
nothing wrong.

I am reluctant to take it out to sea on a long cruise for fear that I
might end up stearing by hand for a few days if it happens again.

I am curious to know if anyone has had a similar problem.