This past summer, I purchased a Raymarine E120, 2 KW Raydome radar,
GPS and Wind/Speed/Depth instruments for my CNC Landfall 48.

The E120 product has MASSIVE shortcomings, which are documented by
myself on YouTube: http://youtube.com/user/cognisense

I had to send the unit to Raymarine warranty support, and they
replaced the motherboard. The unit in the videos has under 2 hours of
operation on it after Raymarine 'blessed' it when I shot these videos.

I was without the unit for 8 weeks while they waited for non-defective
replacement motherboards to arrive.

And the videos document what they claim as 'non-defective'.

I encourage everyone considering a Raymarine navigation system to take
a look at these videos.

Just fighting to get my money back. I'm going back to raster charts
on a PC.

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This past summer, I purchased a Raymarine E120, 2 KW Raydome radar,
GPS and Wind/Speed/Depth instruments for my CNC Landfall 48.

The E120 product has MASSIVE shortcomings, which are documented by
myself on YouTube: http://youtube.com/user/cognisense

I had to send the unit to Raymarine warranty support, and they
replaced the motherboard. The unit in the videos has under 2 hours of
operation on it after Raymarine 'blessed' it when I shot these videos.

I was without the unit for 8 weeks while they waited for non-defective
replacement motherboards to arrive.

And the videos document what they claim as 'non-defective'.

I encourage everyone considering a Raymarine navigation system to take
a look at these videos.

Just fighting to get my money back. I'm going back to raster charts
on a PC.



Wait until you see what's going on INSIDE that unsealed radome after a
year in the salt air!.....

The sun rises, heats the dome which has a rubber drain tit in the
bottom. The air pressurizes and escapes. The dome can't take any
pressure. The sun sets, the air in the dome cools just after dusk so it
can suck in all that supersaturated air through the drain tit. The
dome's cold so it RAINS inside it all night dripping onto the PC board
antenna and its rotary joint that's EXPOSED, the EXPOSED Magnetron soft
iron core, the RF plumbing and, most importantly, the POT METAL BOX that
eventually converts to a white powder that's CONDUCTIVE and flakes off
onto the electronic boards INSIDE IT!

The Raymarine lovers on here will call me names, and have before, but
that's our live experience....WITH THREE REPLACEMENTS!

I do notice the dome looks different in the brand new models, so they
may have fixed it. Look for the rubber drain tit sticking out the
bottom. You have to install it as part of the installation instructions
on a new install while your shoving the bare wires under the ****ty PC
board-mounted wire clips inside the dome in the rainstorm.....to keep
Raymarine from having to install a proper MARINE WEATHERPROOF CONNECTOR.

Hope you get your money back....I'm not impressed, either, as you can
see. I hate swapping the domes....