[C320-list] Depth Sensor

[Pat Moriarty]

Try cleaning it first then it is as simple as pull the old and put in 
the new. You can do it with the boat in the water and if you are fast 
not even a gallon will get in.

Pat
SEXUALHEELING  #130

At 10:46 AM 5/1/2006, you wrote:

>On a slightly different subject:
>
>Has anyone ever changed the depth sounder sensor? I am getting a zero
>depth reading on the display at the helm. The speed indicator works just
>fine, so I am thinking it must be the sensor. I don't have any
>information on how to change this unit out.
>
>Kirk L. McCullough
>Boomerang #124
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: C320-List-bounces at catalina320.com
>[mailto:C320-List-bounces at catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Quentin Murphy
>Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 6:42 AM
>To: C320-List
>Subject: [C320-list] Knot Meter Sender Replacement
>
>I'm replacing the Raymarine knot meter sender (thru-hull unit with
>paddle
>wheel) as it's defective. I've tested with a new sender by spinning the
>wheel and the display showed "speed" just to make sure it is the sender
>that's at fault. Due to the five female spade connectors on the
>instrument
>end of the long cable that comes with the sender I'm having difficulty
>removing the old sender cable down through the port pedestal guard tube
>to
>the aft cabin ceiling below.  There is a cover for the steering pulleys
>with
>about 12 screws which I removed.  This pedestal guard tube is so packed
>as
>there are many other cables for other instruments in the port side of
>the
>guard as well as in the starboard side.  As I have to attach a thin
>nylon
>fish line to the end of this with electrical tape all over the spade
>connectors, I feel there is no way to pull them past the other cables
>(without it breaking apart or damaging the other cables.  The only way
>this
>could be pulled in my mind is: disconnecting all of cables to the
>instruments and pulling them all out as at one go and then pulling them
>all
>back, minus the old cable, adding the replacement cable.  That would be
>a
>lot of hassle.  Can anyone see a problem if I cut the cable (say under
>the
>port settee) and solder the fire wires in this cable, using heat shrink
>on
>each wire and then a larger heat shrink on the cable jacket?  It's
>pretty
>dry there, especially if I tyrap it high up.
>
>Quentin Murphy
>Celtic Knot #667
>
>
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