2020-03-23, 05:44 PM
Hello,
We've got a very old Raymarine autopilot on our 43ft sailboat. It's currently working well but I fear that either the computer or the motor controller board will give up at some point on a long passage. We already use OpenPlotter to hook the boat's aged SeaTalk network into OpenCPN and Navionics. I've been looking at PyPilot as a possible backup option should the main autopilot computer fail.
Does anyone have experience of this?
If I was to buy the computer and controller board hardware packages from Sean, it feels like it should be a "simple" case of wiring the PyPilot motor controller to the existing Raymarine steering ram on the quadrant and linking the OpenPlotter Pi to the PyPilot Pi over WiFi. We'd lose the cockpit controls controls via the ST6002, but on a long passage this wouldn't be too inconvenient.
Is it really going to be this straightforward, and is there anything else I should be worrying about?
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We've got a very old Raymarine autopilot on our 43ft sailboat. It's currently working well but I fear that either the computer or the motor controller board will give up at some point on a long passage. We already use OpenPlotter to hook the boat's aged SeaTalk network into OpenCPN and Navionics. I've been looking at PyPilot as a possible backup option should the main autopilot computer fail.
Does anyone have experience of this?
If I was to buy the computer and controller board hardware packages from Sean, it feels like it should be a "simple" case of wiring the PyPilot motor controller to the existing Raymarine steering ram on the quadrant and linking the OpenPlotter Pi to the PyPilot Pi over WiFi. We'd lose the cockpit controls controls via the ST6002, but on a long passage this wouldn't be too inconvenient.
Is it really going to be this straightforward, and is there anything else I should be worrying about?
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