[C320-list] Raymarine seatalk troubleshooting

[Chris Burti]

Well...I'm with you in spirit. 

My wind instrument is dead and the autopilot reads
"seatalk failure".

Depth and speed work.

VHF is dead and it did have power at the set.

My first suspect was lightning, but...

VHF antenna apears intact as well as the wind vane.

Anchor light works.

Still could be lightning, but these rule out a direct
strike.

My next test will be to open the navpod and look for a
loose wire.

Barring that there are impedence tests for the vane on
the Raymarine website.



--- "Lachance, Michael B (ISD, IT)"
<MLaChance at thehartford.com> wrote:

> Yesterday I found none of my vintage 1994 Raymarine
> instruments worked.
> Weather was too nice so we went sailing instead and
> the rum afterwards
> obviated late night troubshooting. I brought home
> the little Raymarine
> manuals but there'e not much in the fault finding
> section except for
> 'ensure seatalk connections are secure'. Besides
> making sure there is
> power to the instruments I am at a loss loss on how
> to begin
> troubleshooting. The only clue I have is that the
> updated autohelm
> ST5000 control head, which is on another breaker,
> was smart enough to
> say something like "Seatalk failure 2". Any advice
> on how to begin
> troubleshooting?
> Mike
> Seychelle, #141
> Noank, CT
> 
> 
>
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Chris Burti
"Commitment"
Catalina 320, #867, 
Farmville, NC

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