Pypilot working on my Nicholson 44

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Hi to all

Here are two videos of the pypilot sailing today.
The conditions today were App-Wind 15-25 kt and the Seastate moderate.
The pypilot just works fine as you can see at the ruddermovement, also the waves pushing .....
The power consumtion is dificult to determine for me as I have also the fridge running the solar charging ect.
Overall is not more then the old autoppilot and depends verry much on how acurat you want your coures, your gain setting and
the sail trimming. The solarpannel produced all what was needed so I arrived after 63NM winth full batteries.

Right now I use the Tinypilot img 30.11.2019 on a Rpi3b and keys and nokia display at the helm and also control through OpenCPN-Plugin on an other RPI3b with Openplotter 1.2

The sailing today was on Compass mode and also True-Wind and GPS-Waypoint.
All modes worked realy well.



Video outside:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mfddyqrqi5n811...2.mp4?dl=0

Video inside:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ii92u01h2ktfi8...0.mp4?dl=0




I still working on the best gain-setting:
On flat water and light wind I use only D=0,1 and P=0,005  FF=0,73(..... P=D*5%....)
Today I Used: D=0,12 P=0,006 PR=0,006 DD=0,2 FF=0,73

So the conclusion of the day was, the pypilot is doing reay fine and I´m sure it can do still better when I have more understandig of gain setting ;-)

Thanks again to Sean for that great projekt !!!!

Save sailing
Andreas