Thanks everyone for your input. The Aqua Signal connector looks like a great idea as we take down the mast every year for haul out.
Paul Saxton Boomerang C&C 29 Mk 1 Toronto, ON Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 18, 2018, at 1:27 PM, Paul Fountain <p...@seasource.ca> wrote: > > We use one of these on the wind cable to facilitate the removal of the mast > instead of the white box. > > https://www.defender.com/product.jsp?id=680929 > > Paul > > From: CnC-List <cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com> on behalf of Frederick G > Street via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2018 12:43:54 PM > To: Jim Reinardy via CnC-List > Cc: Frederick G Street > Subject: Re: Stus-List Raymarine i50 & i60 installation tips? > > Paul — Ken is absolutely correct (as usual…) about the white wind vane cable > connection box. As far as other installation tips, you can daisy-chain the > instruments per the manual to share data across them. You will need to > provide a power connection on the SeaTalkNG bus to power them; and you will > need to properly terminate the bus in order for it to work reliably. If > you’re tying in with an autopilot or MFD, that will make the SeaTalkNG bus > more complicated. > > Contact me if you need more info. > > — Fred > > Fred Street -- Minneapolis > S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( > >> On Feb 18, 2018, at 8:11 AM, Ken Heaton <kenhea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The small white junction box is if you need to cut the wire at the base of >> the mast to allow the mast to be removed from the boat without pulling the >> wind Sensor cable all the way back to the instrument. You don't need to >> install the white box right away, you could leave a couple of loops in the >> cable near the mast base and run the wire to the wind instrument. You could >> cut the cable and install the junction box later if you need to pull the >> mast. When you do, you just bare the wires and insert into the little >> terminals and tighten the screws. >> >> There should be small spade connectors included in the kit to crimp onto the >> cable at the back of the instrument. >> >> Ken H. >
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