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Rudder position sensor+\- - rastam4n - 2021-06-28
Does anyone know if the rudder is set to turn to port should the rudder position sensor be reading + or - ?
RE: Rudder position sensor+\- - seandepagnier - 2021-06-28
The sign should be handled by rudder calibration... Is this in the opencpn dashboard display?
RE: Rudder position sensor+\- - rastam4n - 2021-06-28
Yes and in the pypilot plug-in rudder calibration screen
It shows negative when I turn to starboard and positive when I turn to port. Seems to be opposite of what it should be?
RE: Rudder position sensor+\- - seandepagnier - 2021-06-29
positive is port for nmea output sentence
hmm.. it may be that pypilot is treating rudder angle with the opposite sign of convention.
I haven't worked on this bit for a while, and surprised no one brought it up. I would treat positive as port for now, but in a future version i may switch it, but this will only affect nmea and signalk output and communication. Everything should work ok assuming port is positive.
Thanks for the feedback.
RE: Rudder position sensor+\- - Dashash - 2021-07-22
I just finished installing and calibrating my rudder position sensor and noticed the same thing. If I treat Port as + and Stbd as -, the rudder movement commands are correct, and the center command finds center, but the rudder display shows Port and Stbd rudder directions as swapped.
RE: Rudder position sensor+\- - seandepagnier - 2021-07-23
Thanks for reporting this. For this version, just please swap the display in your head.. and expect pypilot future version to correct this. I will do a lot of testing before releasing a version and hopefully fix this in the next one.