At 1:16:00 AutoTac: When you tack with the P70 from menu or +1 - +10 the autopilot "mirror" the AWA (or TWA) and proceed with Wind mode. BUT when you tack with the remote control (S100 or Smartcontroller) the autopilot uses the programmed "Tack Angle" (Ex. 90º) and switch to AUTO-mode. You then have to activate "Wind-mode" again. Thats not what the manual says and why is there a difference in action? The best would be that the autopilot uses tack angle and then mirror the AWA with out changing mode. Also the autopilot needs a "Turn Rate" when tacking so you can adjust for different boats and speed. Now when you tack with P70 the boat turn too much and get very low on new tac. Then it takes a while to get up to the right AWA again.
Hello Reidar. Thank you for watching the show! When you have a moment please email me at james.mcgowan@raymarine.com so I can find you again. I am going to enlist some additional help to answer your questions, as my personal experience on-the-water onboard a sailing vessel is limited. From what I read and understand though, when you initiate an auto-tack from either the remote control or from the fixed pilot head, the basic response should be the same. In wind-vane mode, the boat will be locked on a relative angle to the wind, trimming the heading to maintain that angle. When you press auto tack, the pilot snapshots the relative wind angle/heading, and then tacks the vessel to put you on the opposite relative wind angle, again trimming the heading to maintain that new, mirrored angle. If Gybe inhibit is enabled, the boat will only turn through/into the wind and never away from the wind. As for the Turn Rate, I will make that suggest to our pilot team. You do have some adjustment level in that you can change the pilots' AutoTrim level to make it more or less responsive. Since you are seeing the boat hang off-course for an extended period of time, increasing the AutoTrim value should improve the responsiveness. I will run this past our pilot team though, and gather their feedback. Their sailing experience is far more extensive than mine.
At 1:14:00 Steer at wind angle. Why does the instrument show "Locked Heading" LH in this mode instead of the AWA or TWA sett? Is that a bug or some miss by the programmer?!
I'm going to ask for help from our sailing team on this one, and get back to you. I'll post the answer here too for the benefit of anyone else watching too.
These webinars are fantastic. Keep them up. Would love to see some advanced ones with specific install and software setting setup tips and tricks. My questions below will give you some ideas I think. Hope you can answer these. Q: I have an EV-400 Sail with an EV1 Sensor Core, ACU-400, a p70 Autopilot Control Head connected to SeatalkNG network with wind speed and direction and all this connected to my eS7 MFD RUNNING Lighthouse II. My plan is to upgrade to Lighthouse III on the eS7 to accommodate my new Quantum 2 radar at launch this spring, but haven’t done that yet. My system is running mostly really well with the exception of two issues. 1) I have significant 15 to 20 degrees heading deviation to port against electronic compass heading as shown on my MFD (VMG vs CMG lines). This is regardless of heading (it doesn’t vary) and in conditions of no current, tide or wind (I sail on Lake Ontario, so these conditions are achievable). Is there a way to correct for this and get the heading and course made good aligned? This is particularly annoying when sailing and trying to determine / interpret laylines. 2) My tilt is showing a 4 degree tilt to starboard at the dock with no wind or current. The boat does not show any noticeable tilt. Is there a way to enter a correction for tilt like can be done for rudder angle and how would I make that correction? I have not been able to find any adjustments in the p70 menus or on my MFD for this. Note, my EV1 is mounted low in the boat at the waterline on a bulkhead in the very stern of the boat and just to port of the boats centreline. The only metal near the EV1 is the rudder-shaft about 0.5 m directly to starboard of the EV1. Note I’ve tried resetting the autopilot calibration a couple of times and giving the autopilot plenty of time to recalibrate for the above two issues with no or only little improvement after several weeks of sailing/motoring. Thanks for any help you can provide.
Hello Yves. Thanks for watching. Please send me an email with your questions. I'd love to answer them, but its too much to squeeze in here. james.f.mcgowan@raymarine.com is me. Thanks!
For a boat with a mechanical helm unit you might need to use a 3rd party autopilot drive called an Octopus drive. It replaces the mechanical helm with one that incorporates an electric autopilot drive and clutch that can be controlled by our Evolution EV-200 autopilot system. You can learn more about it here: octopusdrives.com/products/type-s-t-dashboard-drives/
For outboard powered boats with hydraulic steering we'll need to know either the make/model or volume of the hydraulic steering cylinder that is installed on your boat at the outboard. We'll match the volume of the cylinder to an appropriately sized hydraulic pump. Once we have that information we can tell you exactly which Evolution kit you'll need. There is normally a data plate on the steering cylinder with this information. Feel free to send me an email with the details and I can tell you exactly which one you'll need. james.mcgowan@raymarine.com A complete hydraulic autopilot system consists of a hydraulic pump, an actuator control unit (ACU), an EV1 heading sensor, an autopilot controller or MFD, and a pilot cabling kit. We offer bundled kits with everything in the box. You'll also normally need a set of hydraulic hoses and an autopilot fitting kit from your steering manufacturer. This will allow you to plumb the pump into the boat's existing hydraulics.
I am buying an EV150 for my Pursuit DC 166 which came from the factory with a Garmin 8612 mfd. Adding a Garmin AP would have cost 3 times what I am spending for the 150. Plus the dealer says they would not even try to interface a 150 to the Garmin. if I input a waypoint in the Garmin and get a course heading from the 8612 and set it on the 150 control unit, what can I do if the 150 will not track the course? Thanks Mike
Hello Mike. There should be no issue whatsoever connecting the autopilot to your MFD using NMEA2000 networking. That is what that networking system is designed to do, allow different brands of electronics to communicate with each other. Autopilot/navigation integration is one of the most basic functions that networking is built for. Activate a waypoint or route on your 8612. When you are ready to steer by autopilot first bring the autopilot from standby to automatic mode. The pilot will initially be in locked heading mode, following whatever course the boat was on when you pressed Auto. To follow a destination from the chartplotter press Mode...Track and the pilot will then look to the NMEA2000 network for the feed from your chartplotter. It will detect the destination, show it on the pilot screen, and indicate the bearing to it and the direction it intends to turn the boat. When its safe, press Track again and the pilot will steer to the destination. Of course, the other way to do this is to just use your autopilot in locked heading mode. Your chartplotter will indicate for you a bearing to your next waypoint. Put the pilot in auto, then use the controller to dial in that bearing as the course to steer. In this case you'd make manual adjustments along the way if you find the boat is a bit left or right of track. Add a degree or subtract a degree, here or there, as you close on your destination. This method requires no connection whatsoever to the chartplotter. The pilot is completely independent.
Well explained … An excellent product that I would have already purchased except for your insistence that we have to acknowledge an alarm for each waypoint advance. No matter how many times you guys try to explain your logic, as a skipper of 50 years experience, it makes no sense. For a power boat, continuing straight ahead is just as dangerous as is making a turn. You claim we cannot auto turn because the environment may have changed and a boat may be anchored on the new heading … yes it could, but so could they be straight ahead!. Certainly, the fact that I have gone to the trouble of putting in a change of course in my route, it is much more likely that straight ahead is VERY wrong due to the environment and the turn is essential. I have been using another brand of pilot for 15 years and like most pilots on the market today, it provides the option for the skipper to allow auto turning. I have driven other boats with Evolution Pilots and the constant waypoint alarms are just painful and annoying to me and my passengers and unnecessary on a powerboat .. especially if you use Auto-routing which places many more waypoints with small heading adjustments. Your own logic is defeated also by your enthusiasm for "Fishing Patterns" that allows auto-turns in a much more aggressive manner than my carefully thought out routes that I would like my pilot to follow … I have spoken to many skippers who share my view … and the forums are full of the very same comments. Change that, and my boat will get a new Evolution Pilot to match the rest of my Raymarine gear. Please allow an option for the skipper to permit Auto Turns to follow a Route.
Hello Gilmar. You may still have air in the hydraulic lines that requires bleeding. You'll definitely want to resolve this 100% before getting underway. At your earliest convenience please get in touch with one of our autopilot specialists at raymarine.custhelp.com.
Yes, love these series, they are very informative and helpful, much appreciated. Keep them going
Glad you like them!
Autopilot are OK, but keep an eye on it. Never trust completely.
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At 1:16:00 AutoTac: When you tack with the P70 from menu or +1 - +10 the autopilot "mirror" the AWA (or TWA) and proceed with Wind mode. BUT when you tack with the remote control (S100 or Smartcontroller) the autopilot uses the programmed "Tack Angle" (Ex. 90º) and switch to AUTO-mode. You then have to activate "Wind-mode" again. Thats not what the manual says and why is there a difference in action? The best would be that the autopilot uses tack angle and then mirror the AWA with out changing mode. Also the autopilot needs a "Turn Rate" when tacking so you can adjust for different boats and speed. Now when you tack with P70 the boat turn too much and get very low on new tac. Then it takes a while to get up to the right AWA again.
Hello Reidar. Thank you for watching the show! When you have a moment please email me at james.mcgowan@raymarine.com so I can find you again. I am going to enlist some additional help to answer your questions, as my personal experience on-the-water onboard a sailing vessel is limited.
From what I read and understand though, when you initiate an auto-tack from either the remote control or from the fixed pilot head, the basic response should be the same. In wind-vane mode, the boat will be locked on a relative angle to the wind, trimming the heading to maintain that angle. When you press auto tack, the pilot snapshots the relative wind angle/heading, and then tacks the vessel to put you on the opposite relative wind angle, again trimming the heading to maintain that new, mirrored angle. If Gybe inhibit is enabled, the boat will only turn through/into the wind and never away from the wind.
As for the Turn Rate, I will make that suggest to our pilot team. You do have some adjustment level in that you can change the pilots' AutoTrim level to make it more or less responsive. Since you are seeing the boat hang off-course for an extended period of time, increasing the AutoTrim value should improve the responsiveness.
I will run this past our pilot team though, and gather their feedback. Their sailing experience is far more extensive than mine.
At 1:14:00 Steer at wind angle. Why does the instrument show "Locked Heading" LH in this mode instead of the AWA or TWA sett? Is that a bug or some miss by the programmer?!
I'm going to ask for help from our sailing team on this one, and get back to you. I'll post the answer here too for the benefit of anyone else watching too.
These webinars are fantastic. Keep them up. Would love to see some advanced ones with specific install and software setting setup tips and tricks. My questions below will give you some ideas I think.
Hope you can answer these.
Q: I have an EV-400 Sail with an EV1 Sensor Core, ACU-400, a p70 Autopilot Control Head connected to SeatalkNG network with wind speed and direction and all this connected to my eS7 MFD RUNNING Lighthouse II. My plan is to upgrade to Lighthouse III on the eS7 to accommodate my new Quantum 2 radar at launch this spring, but haven’t done that yet. My system is running mostly really well with the exception of two issues.
1) I have significant 15 to 20 degrees heading deviation to port against electronic compass heading as shown on my MFD (VMG vs CMG lines). This is regardless of heading (it doesn’t vary) and in conditions of no current, tide or wind (I sail on Lake Ontario, so these conditions are achievable). Is there a way to correct for this and get the heading and course made good aligned? This is particularly annoying when sailing and trying to determine / interpret laylines.
2) My tilt is showing a 4 degree tilt to starboard at the dock with no wind or current. The boat does not show any noticeable tilt. Is there a way to enter a correction for tilt like can be done for rudder angle and how would I make that correction? I have not been able to find any adjustments in the p70 menus or on my MFD for this. Note, my EV1 is mounted low in the boat at the waterline on a bulkhead in the very stern of the boat and just to port of the boats centreline. The only metal near the EV1 is the rudder-shaft about 0.5 m directly to starboard of the EV1.
Note I’ve tried resetting the autopilot calibration a couple of times and giving the autopilot plenty of time to recalibrate for the above two issues with no or only little improvement after several weeks of sailing/motoring.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Hello Yves. Thanks for watching. Please send me an email with your questions. I'd love to answer them, but its too much to squeeze in here. james.f.mcgowan@raymarine.com is me. Thanks!
I got a StarCraft 19.5 foot fishing boat would like to know if I can put a wheel drive on the boat has a rack and pinion drive on it now
For a boat with a mechanical helm unit you might need to use a 3rd party autopilot drive called an Octopus drive. It replaces the mechanical helm with one that incorporates an electric autopilot drive and clutch that can be controlled by our Evolution EV-200 autopilot system. You can learn more about it here: octopusdrives.com/products/type-s-t-dashboard-drives/
My boat has hydraulic steering do i just need ev1 and the auto pilot module
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For outboard powered boats with hydraulic steering we'll need to know either the make/model or volume of the hydraulic steering cylinder that is installed on your boat at the outboard. We'll match the volume of the cylinder to an appropriately sized hydraulic pump. Once we have that information we can tell you exactly which Evolution kit you'll need. There is normally a data plate on the steering cylinder with this information. Feel free to send me an email with the details and I can tell you exactly which one you'll need. james.mcgowan@raymarine.com
A complete hydraulic autopilot system consists of a hydraulic pump, an actuator control unit (ACU), an EV1 heading sensor, an autopilot controller or MFD, and a pilot cabling kit. We offer bundled kits with everything in the box. You'll also normally need a set of hydraulic hoses and an autopilot fitting kit from your steering manufacturer. This will allow you to plumb the pump into the boat's existing hydraulics.
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I am buying an EV150 for my Pursuit DC 166 which came from the factory with a Garmin 8612 mfd. Adding a Garmin AP would have cost 3 times what I am spending for the 150. Plus the dealer says they would not even try to interface a 150 to the Garmin. if I input a waypoint in the Garmin and get a course heading from the 8612 and set it on the 150 control unit, what can I do if the 150 will not track the course? Thanks
Mike
Hello Mike. There should be no issue whatsoever connecting the autopilot to your MFD using NMEA2000 networking. That is what that networking system is designed to do, allow different brands of electronics to communicate with each other. Autopilot/navigation integration is one of the most basic functions that networking is built for.
Activate a waypoint or route on your 8612. When you are ready to steer by autopilot first bring the autopilot from standby to automatic mode. The pilot will initially be in locked heading mode, following whatever course the boat was on when you pressed Auto. To follow a destination from the chartplotter press Mode...Track and the pilot will then look to the NMEA2000 network for the feed from your chartplotter. It will detect the destination, show it on the pilot screen, and indicate the bearing to it and the direction it intends to turn the boat. When its safe, press Track again and the pilot will steer to the destination.
Of course, the other way to do this is to just use your autopilot in locked heading mode. Your chartplotter will indicate for you a bearing to your next waypoint. Put the pilot in auto, then use the controller to dial in that bearing as the course to steer. In this case you'd make manual adjustments along the way if you find the boat is a bit left or right of track. Add a degree or subtract a degree, here or there, as you close on your destination. This method requires no connection whatsoever to the chartplotter. The pilot is completely independent.
That's great. Guess someone was trying to "steer" me to the Garmin.
Any consideration to allow autopilot control (perhaps with an additional layer of security) for the RayRemote app?
Hello Chirs. Thanks for the feedback. I will present this idea to our product management team.
Well explained … An excellent product that I would have already purchased except for your insistence that we have to acknowledge an alarm for each waypoint advance.
No matter how many times you guys try to explain your logic, as a skipper of 50 years experience, it makes no sense. For a power boat, continuing straight ahead is just as dangerous as is making a turn. You claim we cannot auto turn because the environment may have changed and a boat may be anchored on the new heading … yes it could, but so could they be straight ahead!. Certainly, the fact that I have gone to the trouble of putting in a change of course in my route, it is much more likely that straight ahead is VERY wrong due to the environment and the turn is essential. I have been using another brand of pilot for 15 years and like most pilots on the market today, it provides the option for the skipper to allow auto turning. I have driven other boats with Evolution Pilots and the constant waypoint alarms are just painful and annoying to me and my passengers and unnecessary on a powerboat .. especially if you use Auto-routing which places many more waypoints with small heading adjustments.
Your own logic is defeated also by your enthusiasm for "Fishing Patterns" that allows auto-turns in a much more aggressive manner than my carefully thought out routes that I would like my pilot to follow … I have spoken to many skippers who share my view … and the forums are full of the very same comments. Change that, and my boat will get a new Evolution Pilot to match the rest of my Raymarine gear. Please allow an option for the skipper to permit Auto Turns to follow a Route.
I will certainly pass back your comments to the team. Your argument is a good one. We very much appreciate hearing your thoughts on it.
Hi Raymarine, my steering is stiff to turn after installed the autopilot hydraulics system, do you know what might be the issue?
Hello Gilmar. You may still have air in the hydraulic lines that requires bleeding. You'll definitely want to resolve this 100% before getting underway. At your earliest convenience please get in touch with one of our autopilot specialists at raymarine.custhelp.com.
@@Raymarine Thanks you very much