I am getting ready to upgrade my current NavPilot511 system to a Nav300 set-up and would appreciate your thoughts and advice on what I plan to do.
This is for a 33 foot boat with twin Yamaha 300's with two steering rams.
My current system is as follows:
NavPilot 511 (from 2005)
Brand New Seastar Smartstick RRU (works good per multimeter range of motion from .14 to 2.0 center to 4.0)
PG-500 Fluxgate Heading Sensor (from 2005)
Furuno HRP16-12 12V pump (from 2005)
Twin TZTouch 3 12" MFD's on a NMEA2000 backbone with the below two components
Furuno Satellite Compass SCX20 + Furuno 24" Dome Radar (DRS4DNXT)
Questions:
1. Should I connect the RRU to the NAV300 via Furuno's Junction Box FI-5002? I think yes...
2. Can the Nav300 get it's Heading Data from the SCX20? Or must it get it from the PG-500? Or a new PG-700?
3. My existing pump (HRP16-12) seems to work well. Do AP Pumps like this last a long time or should I upgrade it to a HRP17-12?
Hint - no matter what I do with my current NavPilot511 system, I keep getting a "Rudder Driver Error" in the installation set-up process.
Maybe I'll need a new pump no matter what system I use. 18 years might be too much to ask of any pump. I however removed the electric motor from my existing pump. Disassembled the motor and the brushes and stator looked very clean inside after 18 years of use. I reassembled it and it tested perfectly. I wonder if the manifold on the pump somehow goes bad? Any thoughts on this?
This is for a 33 foot boat with twin Yamaha 300's with two steering rams.
My current system is as follows:
NavPilot 511 (from 2005)
Brand New Seastar Smartstick RRU (works good per multimeter range of motion from .14 to 2.0 center to 4.0)
PG-500 Fluxgate Heading Sensor (from 2005)
Furuno HRP16-12 12V pump (from 2005)
Twin TZTouch 3 12" MFD's on a NMEA2000 backbone with the below two components
Furuno Satellite Compass SCX20 + Furuno 24" Dome Radar (DRS4DNXT)
Questions:
1. Should I connect the RRU to the NAV300 via Furuno's Junction Box FI-5002? I think yes...
2. Can the Nav300 get it's Heading Data from the SCX20? Or must it get it from the PG-500? Or a new PG-700?
3. My existing pump (HRP16-12) seems to work well. Do AP Pumps like this last a long time or should I upgrade it to a HRP17-12?
Hint - no matter what I do with my current NavPilot511 system, I keep getting a "Rudder Driver Error" in the installation set-up process.
Maybe I'll need a new pump no matter what system I use. 18 years might be too much to ask of any pump. I however removed the electric motor from my existing pump. Disassembled the motor and the brushes and stator looked very clean inside after 18 years of use. I reassembled it and it tested perfectly. I wonder if the manifold on the pump somehow goes bad? Any thoughts on this?
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