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9 hours ago, Island Time said:

Once you use a new MFD you won't want to use an Ipad, except for remoting the MFD! Better displays, better GPS, wide viewing angle, sunlight viewable, dim right down at night, night color selections, touch and buttons, etc. All the current MFDs have wifi built in, and an app to display and control the MFD from Ipad or Andriod. Good for lying in your bunk and checking what's happening on deck! You can still use Navionics charts if you wish, but Navico now only supply Cmap - which they own. Navionics is now owned by Garmin.

 Halo Radars start at $2300, but the one I recommend is $3K - Halo 20+. Instant on/off, no warmup. Low current draw, Velocity tracking (any target approaching you is displayed in a different color), MARPA, Dual Display (effectively 2 radars in one, can have a short and long range display at the same time). Also has a power save mode, so it can start, for example every 5 mins, do 3 rotations, and if no targets, stop. If target present, stay on, alarm, whatever you wish. Full guard zone functions, AIS overlays, if using a suitable B&G VHF direct DSC calls to any AIS or DSC target on the MFD, etc etc

 I'd sell the Evo gyro if you were to go to B&G, as it's cheaper to buy the AP unit as a kit - with a precision 9 solid state compass (includes rate, roll, pitch, yaw, and heave) than to buy individual components. Your existing radar is also pretty easily sold, and you might be surprised how much you get for it - I've a customer who had  a similar Raymarine vintage to yours, and it cost him $500 to go to a B&G radar, once he'd sold his on trademe!

Grey imports may not have a NZ warranty, and we should be very price competitive. Navico says we will match or better any genuine international prices...

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Can I upgrade the MFDs now and use existing radar, course computer wind and depth etc and which MFD will fit in hole in panel and stainless box that E80s are now in ? Plus I’ve got navionics card for whole pacific, what will this work in or if buying new mfds just get new charts ?

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1 hour ago, Jon said:

Ok next ?

Can I upgrade the MFDs now and use existing radar, course computer wind and depth etc and which MFD will fit in hole in panel and stainless box that E80s are now in ? Plus I’ve got navionics card for whole pacific, what will this work in or if buying new mfds just get new charts ?

Unfortunately the digital radars are all proprietary, so to see which MFDs are supported, you have to look on the Radar vendor's website to ascertain which MFD's will work, but only Raymarine works with Raymarine, and only Navico (Lowrance, Simrad, B&G) works with Navico.

E80s are more of a portrait hole size, all the new MFD's are more landscape. Mostly I have to cover the old dash (piece of Carbon, White or Black Acrylic works well and avoids painting) and cut a new hole. 

The E80 chart cartridge wont fit any of the new MFD's from any Vendor. May as well sell them with the E80s.  Most MFD's now use Micro C cards for charts. On the plus side, now the MFD's can connect to the internet, via a hotspot, the charts can be easily kept up to date, and or new areas purchased as needed. Just for info, NZ and Pacific Islands CMAP is about $330.00

 

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7 hours ago, Ed said:

I bought the openwind setup last year for my 8.5 tri, plays nicely delivering AWA and AWS straight into the N2K bus.(they do a 0183 version as well)

Unfortunatly the boat is on my driveway being repaired so can't give definitive info for sure how good it is in use, but on the test bench my triton displays (and the vulcan) will do the TWA and TWS calculations. Also the unit has been out in the elements screwed on the fence post for the last year, seems fine.

In research for finding a rotating mast solution, the Openwind was the cheapest black box solution that was straight plug and play into the network.

Next up in cost and complexity was LCJ Capteurs, they do a rotating mast version with a compensentation box that takes a signal from a mast rotation sensor, in fact I think they are reccommending the hall effect honeywell sensor IT pictured above. This has its own calibration settings, but then plugs straight into the N2K network.

Third option is the full monty processor as mentioned above, certanily the most capable/accurate, but big dolars and proper setup of the system is a profession all of itself! 

 

  

Great thanks for that, that is exactly my setup as well so I'll run with Openwind, great to have a local review. 

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