2021-02-10, 10:58 AM
Hi,
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...sp=sharing
Some more pics and videos of our Pypilot mounting (inspired of Ted Coats one, with a Renault Clio steering motor) tested during 3days in open sea, wind mode, with sometimes ''rudder demanding conditions''. Everything went perfectly.
In easy rudder conditions, the motor is drawing around 3.5amps when working (the upwind vid is considered easy rudder conditions, and most of the crosswind vid too as the motor have a lot of torque). Almost blocked rudder increase the consumption to 6.5amps. Our boat is 13meters/10tons polyester, hydraulic transmission (not oversized).
You can see the very low gains used for this nav, motor speed is 50% (but it looks like 100% doesn't really change the power consumption, furthemore it is more silent ?). I didn't really tries yet more complicated gains settings, but it's already very satisfying.
Ted Coats transmission looks much better then ours but it was convenient to keep the existing autohelm ring, also to keep the autohelm pilot usable in spare. The used belt (autohelm compatible) is a 5.08mm pitch while the returned glued segments of belt are 5mm pitch, to keep the two aligned in the curve. Maybe still need some improvements for harder conditions. I think the little piece of wood used to engage, disengage has good days behind of it !
Great thanks and Bravo again Sean, and participating developpers, for this superb opensource pilot !
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...sp=sharing
Some more pics and videos of our Pypilot mounting (inspired of Ted Coats one, with a Renault Clio steering motor) tested during 3days in open sea, wind mode, with sometimes ''rudder demanding conditions''. Everything went perfectly.
In easy rudder conditions, the motor is drawing around 3.5amps when working (the upwind vid is considered easy rudder conditions, and most of the crosswind vid too as the motor have a lot of torque). Almost blocked rudder increase the consumption to 6.5amps. Our boat is 13meters/10tons polyester, hydraulic transmission (not oversized).
You can see the very low gains used for this nav, motor speed is 50% (but it looks like 100% doesn't really change the power consumption, furthemore it is more silent ?). I didn't really tries yet more complicated gains settings, but it's already very satisfying.
Ted Coats transmission looks much better then ours but it was convenient to keep the existing autohelm ring, also to keep the autohelm pilot usable in spare. The used belt (autohelm compatible) is a 5.08mm pitch while the returned glued segments of belt are 5mm pitch, to keep the two aligned in the curve. Maybe still need some improvements for harder conditions. I think the little piece of wood used to engage, disengage has good days behind of it !
Great thanks and Bravo again Sean, and participating developpers, for this superb opensource pilot !