Rich

Come and do mine when you are done!! ;-)

Awyway, did you check out the price Raymarine charges for a new cable????

Now that I have a windlass with a rope gypsy, going up the mast
should be easier!!

Alan

ps This is two year young and has never worked. I have been unable
to get any Raymarine tech in Annapolis to even answer my telephone call!!

At 09:25 AM 6/13/2006, you wrote:
>I believe Rick's continuity test is the best way to eliminate the
>wire as the fault in the system with out cost or hassle, however,
>keep in mind it is possible to have a chaffed wire jacket that only
>shorts out when the boat moves a certain way. Another words, the
>faulty wire may be an intermittent issue and test fine while you are
>up the mast with the paper clip and than frustrate you when you come
>down to the instruments and find there is still a problem. Wire is
>basically cheap, (compared to a new transducer) and if your
>instrument wire is a few years old the only true solution is to
>replace it. If you are going up the mast anyway you can have someone
>pull the old wire at the base of the mast while you feed the new one
>spliced to the end of the old.
>
>I'm dealing with a similar problem with my wind instrument. My
>problem could be the transducer at the top of the mast or it could
>be a chaffed wire in the mast. the least expensive fix would be to
>replace the wire first. If the problem persists than I will get the
>new wind transducer.
>
>Rich Cassano
>
>
>
>Richard B. Emerson wrote:
>>Uh - it's not quite that bad. The bad news is only someone's going
>>to have to go to the masthead to do some jumpering. Long story
>>short, work out a set of tests along the lines of "if I tie wire A
>>and wire B together at the masthead and look for continuity, if I
>>get it, A and B are fine - if I don't get it and I tie wire A and
>>wire C together, if I get continuity, A and C are fine, B
>>isn't". There's a female connector on the end of the wire, no? A
>>paper clip stuffed into the holes should do the job (bring spares...).
>>Cheers,
>> Rick Emerson
>
>
>
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