[C320-list] Instrumentation

[John Meyers]

I have the Tacktick which got installed last summer and so far so good. I
like the readouts including the water temp.

We mounted the black box behind the panel just forward of the nav station
and ran the wire from the transducer up through the setee and power to the
black box comes from the adjacent circuit breaker box.

The reason I went with the Tacktick is because it is wireless and didn't
need to drop the mast. We did haul the boat out to put in a new transducer
which would not fit into the old thru hull.

John Meyers
Wind Chime #406
Muskegon MI


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Sean Kaldor <spkaldor at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'd like to upgrade the instrumentation on my humble '98 C320 and am
> seeking some advise...
>
>
> I currently have:
> A) Raymarine C80 chartplotter in the salon connected to a Raystar 125 GPS
> receiver, not connected to anything else.
> B) Raymarine ST4000+ autohelm control head at the helm, with the wheel
> controller and fluxgate compass, also not connected to anything else.
>
> C) Raymarine ST60 Speed and Depth at the helm, with their transducers
> below, also not connected to anything else.
>
> I'd like to add wind, maybe AIS, get the chartplotter to the helm, and get
> everything talking to each other.
>
> My questions for anyone out there, based upon your experience with the
> C320...
>
> 1) Does anyone have experience (good/bad) with wireless wind transducers
> and TackTick (now Raymarine Wireless)
>
> 2) Do I need to drop the mast to wire a masthead wind transducer?
> 3) Do you have thoughts about using one big multi-function display vs.
> normal individual instruments? Experience good or bad?
>      -Is there one multi-function display that can control all those
> components and give me charts - a single piece solution?
>
> 4) Has anyone had success with anything new/innovative, such as iPad based
> or something other than RayMarine?
>
> If you had to do it all again, what would be your preferred setup?
>
> I prefer simple and reliable, but I'm not sure if that it wireless (less
> cabling to go wrong), multi-function (fewer components), or stand-alone
> instruments (tried & true with isolated components).
>
> I'm wishing the prior owner got the deluxe instrument package and I
> wouldn't have to solve this riddle :)
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
>
> Sean
>