I have had TackTick wireless wind on my mast since I bought my boat 8 years ago. I have the converter box so it is on my Seatalk-ng network. It worked flawlessly until this year when something happened to the speed sensor. I have not yet gone up the mast to pull it for diagnosis. I had the mast down two years ago and was concerned about its age so sent it to Raymarine for testing. They found it to be fine, but offered that if it had problems down the road, they would sell me a new one at a discounted price to replace it. So I have been happy with how long it lasted. If I were to replace it, it would be the same or perhaps the Sailtimer version (https://wi-rb.com/product/rb/). Dave
David Knecht Rear Commodore Thames Yacht Club New London, CT > On Sep 22, 2021, at 5:47 PM, Peter W. via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > FWIW, earlier this season, I replaced my TackTick wireless wind instrument > with Raymarine's latest offering. You may recall Raymarine acquired TackTick > some years ago. Except for the branding, The replacement is identical to the > original, which worked well for 13 seasons. In fact, the original unit still > works fine for wind SPEED, but it is unreliable for DIRECTION. Probably, I > could have returned it for testing and possible repair, but I didn't want to > deal with the cost of retrieval, downtime, and re-install [which assumes the > unit could be repaired]. > I like the unit. I don't like it when I can't get through to Raymarine. > Since my old Datamarine knotmeter is finally giving it up, I purchased a > suite of instruments - wind instrument + Tridata display, with wireless cap. > could this work for you? > > Pete W. > > Siren Song > '91 C&C 30-2 > Irvington, Va. > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 2:00 PM Marek Dziedzic via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am starting to think about adding the wind instrument to the boat. The main > reason is for being able to feed the data (wind direction) to the EV-100 > autopilot. > > > > I have a SeatalkNG network on the boat. I don’t have a Raymarine MFC, though > (I have a small Garmin chartplotter, instead). > > > > I am a minimalist (you could say “cheap”), so e.g., I don’t have a Navpod on > the binnacle; rather I have two individual RAM mount pods (for the > chartplotter and one for the p70s (the autopilot control head). > > > > I unstep the mast for every winter, so I am biased towards a wireless unit. > > > > I have a few questions: > > > > - Any recommendations for the wind instrument (Raymarine, Garmin, B&G)? My > first choice would be a unit that talks NMEA 2000 (SeatalkNG) (as opposed to > an analog unit that requires an extra device (iTC-5?) to connect. But this is > mainly to control the costs. > > > > - With limited space at the helm, what is the minimum requirement to feed the > wind data to the EV-100 autopilot? I don’t think I need the detailed wind > angle displayed, as long as the AP can follow. Though I could put the wind > display somewhere else (on the bulkhead?). But if that display is not > required AND I could save the cost by not including it, I might be fine with > that. > > > > - Any strong recommendations against the wireless? > > > > - Any other suggestions or recommendations? > > > > Thanks > > > > Marek > > > > 1994 C270 ”Legato” > > Ottawa, ON > > > > > > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with > the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > <https://www.paypal.me/stumurray> Thanks - Stu > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with > the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu
Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu
