"Padeen" wrote in
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What's failing?



Oh, by the way, the latest unit they sent had plastic feed with holes in
them the mounting bolts fit up through. Electrolysis, you say? Stainless
steel bolts screwed up into potmetal chassis makes a great battery all
shorted out. Not sure what the plastic spacer is going to do. Maybe it's
supposed to isolate the potmetal from the stainless steel radar mount on
the mizzen so it doesn't weld itself to it, again.

Replacing these things is the pits.....

I sent them the RL70CRC color chartplotter/radar display unit with the last
one. They said it had failed, too, but charged us around $200 to repair it
as it was out of warranty. The RL70 lasts beyond the end of the warranty
period, I think. I do know that now it will talk to its Raymarine
gyro/compass to give us rate of turn data that didn't work before. There
was some kind of communications issue in the display, probably Seatalk.
The NMEA ports seemed to work fine as it would react to the waypoints from
either our Yeoman paper chart interface or The Cap'n on the Dell Latitude
computer...via a Roland multiplexer.