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Raytheon Raychart 601 connected to A R41 XX radar
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I have this issue I have done a hard reset on both units The Raychart puts the chart on the radar screen ok but after about 30 seconds, the chart plotting seems to lock up. With the exception of , you can still move the cross-hairs and only the cross hairs. no other button on the 601 does anything except the power button If you power off and then back on the 601, it will work fine for abut 30 more seconds. ANy thoughts? Thanks Mark |
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"Big gus" wrote in message ... Hi all I have this issue I have done a hard reset on both units The Raychart puts the chart on the radar screen ok but after about 30 seconds, the chart plotting seems to lock up. With the exception of , you can still move the cross-hairs and only the cross hairs. no other button on the 601 does anything except the power button If you power off and then back on the 601, it will work fine for abut 30 more seconds. ANy thoughts? Thanks Mark The Raychart 600 series usually had a nicad battery on a small daughter PCB. These batteries go bad and leak, eventually getting onto the main circuit board. I would remove the case and inspect for battery damage...carefully clean it up and inspect for circuit traces etched open by the battery goop. If you are lucky, a cleaning and replacement of the entire daughter assembly with fresh battery will fix it. The assemblies run around $ 20 from Raymarine. They are solder in assemblies, so if not qualified, get it to a service shop. Wash hands thoroughly after you are done as this stuff contain cadmium, a poison. Doug K7ABX |
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Thanks for the reply
I will check this How-ever... I have another unit (601 chart) and I connected it for trouble shooting purposes, and its doing the same thing On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:58:12 GMT, "Doug" wrote: "Big gus" wrote in message .. . Hi all I have this issue I have done a hard reset on both units The Raychart puts the chart on the radar screen ok but after about 30 seconds, the chart plotting seems to lock up. With the exception of , you can still move the cross-hairs and only the cross hairs. no other button on the 601 does anything except the power button If you power off and then back on the 601, it will work fine for abut 30 more seconds. ANy thoughts? Thanks Mark The Raychart 600 series usually had a nicad battery on a small daughter PCB. These batteries go bad and leak, eventually getting onto the main circuit board. I would remove the case and inspect for battery damage...carefully clean it up and inspect for circuit traces etched open by the battery goop. If you are lucky, a cleaning and replacement of the entire daughter assembly with fresh battery will fix it. The assemblies run around $ 20 from Raymarine. They are solder in assemblies, so if not qualified, get it to a service shop. Wash hands thoroughly after you are done as this stuff contain cadmium, a poison. Doug K7ABX |
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Big gus wrote in
: The Raychart puts the chart on the radar screen ok but after about 30 seconds, the chart plotting seems to lock up. With the exception of , you can still move the cross-hairs and only the cross hairs. no other button on the 601 does anything except the power button When I returned the 2nd corroded-up Raymarine radome to them for "repair", I also included the RL70CRC color chart plotter/radar display unit with it. Raymarine found one hardware fault in it and lots of upgraded firmware to put in it from all the firmware program corrections and bug fixes discovered. Might not be a bad idea to give Raymarine a call with that model and serial number in your hand so they can look to see if you need a firmware upgrade or hardware repair. Their upgrade on ours fixed a niggling problem we had trying to get the screen to point up to match the boat's course correctly. It also had an error in the Seatalk communications. Our Raymarine compass sensor now calibrates properly and the Smart Heading Sensor gyro-compass unit now gives proper input to the RL70CRC display. I think you have a firmware fault that needs fixing. -- Larry You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and you're outlined in chalk. |
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"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message ... Big gus wrote in : The Raychart puts the chart on the radar screen ok but after about 30 seconds, the chart plotting seems to lock up. With the exception of , you can still move the cross-hairs and only the cross hairs. no other button on the 601 does anything except the power button When I returned the 2nd corroded-up Raymarine radome to them for "repair", I also included the RL70CRC color chart plotter/radar display unit with it. Raymarine found one hardware fault in it and lots of upgraded firmware to put in it from all the firmware program corrections and bug fixes discovered. Might not be a bad idea to give Raymarine a call with that model and serial number in your hand so they can look to see if you need a firmware upgrade or hardware repair. Their upgrade on ours fixed a niggling problem we had trying to get the screen to point up to match the boat's course correctly. It also had an error in the Seatalk communications. Our Raymarine compass sensor now calibrates properly and the Smart Heading Sensor gyro-compass unit now gives proper input to the RL70CRC display. I think you have a firmware fault that needs fixing. -- Larry You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and you're outlined in chalk. Larry, The 601 and R41 were Raytheon products, not Raymarine. The R41XX was actually OEMed by JRC. You are mixing apples and oranges trying to compare it with Raymarine stuff. Incidentally Raymarine doesn't support the 600 series anymore. Have had to trash 3 of them this month. 73 Doug K7ABX |
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"Doug" wrote in
link.net: Larry, The 601 and R41 were Raytheon products, not Raymarine. The R41XX was actually OEMed by JRC. You are mixing apples and oranges trying to compare it with Raymarine stuff. Incidentally Raymarine doesn't support the 600 series anymore. Have had to trash 3 of them this month. 73 Doug K7ABX Oh, sorry. I didn't know it was that old. No, they won't support anything old....neither will keyboard companies, any more. -- Larry You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and you're outlined in chalk. |
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