So far all of the new electronics have been working well. The Boatsense unit was finally RMA'ed for the 2nd time (3rd unit) and everything seems to be working with the new one. I haven't heard the failure reasons for the other two units yet – not sure that I will, but I will keep hoping.
All of the other electronics have now been out on the water 5 times, and one time in really nasty weather, without any issues. All of the tie downs and redundancies I've designed in seem to be holding well.
I'll keep tweaking individual settings – for instance, if I have the AIS scan on 2nm on the Garmin unit, it seems to spin up it's cooling fans quite a bit, which would indicate that it's using a lot of it's CPU power to process the AIS vessels on the screen. I've tried dropping that a bunch, and it seems to help, but then it reduces the effectiveness – if I can't scan further out, how will I know about things earlier.
No more electronics planned for a while.
Going well…
April 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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