[C320-list] EV100 wheel pilot

Graeme Clark cg at skyflyer.co.uk
Wed Mar 28 08:29:24 PDT 2018


I’m assuming its a wheelpilot that you are fitting. If so consider the lever arm that is used to enage the drive. It will be bloxked by the top of the pod.
You can spin the moror around to fit it higher up but if you do the magnetic influence on the binnacle compass is near uncorrectable
Graeme
#366, 1996, Jaskar -  UK

> On 28 Mar 2018, at 15:38, Chuck Mueller <katchu at chartermi.net> wrote:
> 
> I was about to start installing a new Raymarine EV100 autopilot today and
> found that the Engine pod will need to be lowered in order to install the
> new system.  The pin from the old ST4000 system that engages the autopilot
> is too high to engage the new system, and that pin is bottomed out against
> the top of the engine pod.  Looks like I will need to drop the engine pod by
> an inch or two.  Has anyone done this?  If so, any thoughts on what I am
> getting into?
> 
> Chuck Mueller
> Northwind #676 2000
> Holland, MI
> 



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