All,
The weekend's project is to trace down the dead autopilot. Looking for ideas
about likely suspects to prioritize the process. Standard Raymarine
Wheelpilot- X5? Been working great for years. Chugging up the river trying
to beat the rain last Sunday after a weekend out and it died. Actual sym
My autopilot is a older Navico unit (WheelPilot). The problem on mine is the belt jumping off the guides. It's all worn-out.
You might want to consider taking the drive / belt / pulley unit apart and see if it being off-quilter might cause a jam which would explain your breaker tripping issue.
It'
There is a separate power cable to the computer. I'd disconnect it or the
power cable to the display to isolate the problem.
Or call Ray or post on their forum and talk to someone who actually knows
what they are talking about.
Joel
35/3
Annapolis
On Friday, September 19, 2014, Kim Brown via Cn
Kim — it sounds like the drive motor may have frozen up; when you try to engage
it, it draws too much current and pops the breaker.
If you disconnect the drive from the control head, you should be able to make
it turn by applying 12 volts across the two leads; the direction it turns will
be det
Hi Joel,
Are you implying that Fred Street and others on
this list do not actually know what they are talking about? :)
Cheers, Russ
At 12:05 PM 19/09/2014, you wrote:
There is a separate power cable to the computer.
 I'd disconnect it or the power cable to the
display to isolat
Kim,
Been a while since I installed or worked on an X-5 but two thoughts occur
to me, bad motor or binding in the SportDrive. Here's how I'd troubleshoot
it.
First, take the motor out of the system. I forget if you can just pull the
power cable of the back or not. If not, find a place to disc
Per the crowd view I disconnected the motor and turned things on and the
control heads and other instruments came up fine. Connection seemed fine
without corrosion. Put a meter to the motor lead and hit auto and then a
course change. Volts came out and nothing popped. Reconnected the lead to
the m
A handheld VHF or magnetic knife can put your autopilot into an alcoholic
stupor as you move around been there done that one LOL
A treasured sailing knife has been relegated to a mast pouch...
The VHF handheld is in my waist/thigh kit with gps and delorme tracker I
have been remov
