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Used the sd card method and it upgraded. Seems to have lost it's calibration. What's the difference between "auto" and "auto lock" in the calibration menu?

No. The Zeus2 has Internet, at some point in the last few months it has detected the update and every time I turn it on it advises of an upgrade to be performed..

Thanks IT. Yep. I have a 4 port bus. Connected to one end of the 4port bus is a terminator. (thanks Bradz) this usually has the wind sensor. Connected to the other end of the 4port bus is a backbone cable which has two tees and a terminator on the very end of it. It runs from about the engine to parallel with the mast. Power, zeus, p9 are connected directly to the 4 port bus with their drop cables There's nothing connected to the two tees at the end of the backbone extender, these usually have the p9 and dst800 on them... I had planned to take terminator from t

I got a terminator (thanks Bradz) and still can't get it to upgrade with just the Zeus2 and p9 on the bus. Just sits at 0%. Will call Navico tomorrow,and reach out to you IT if they are unhelpful... Thanks all.

Can the Zeus2 act as a nmea terminator? I can disconnect everything except wind gear as I only have one terminator. And the upgrade still fails.

Thanks - I believe that these are full NMEA2000 units, not dumb antennas, so these would not be compatible. The AIS standard requires AIS transponders have a dedicated built in GPS receiver, so they can't use another source off the network.

Thanks. This statement on that link is interesting ... .. and provides three easy mounting solutions: pole mount, surface mount or under-deck mount (for the underside of fiberglass decks). I have sometimes heard that GPS/GLONASS signals work fine through fibreglass/ply - my other antenna is built into the chart plotter and is mounted on a swing frame into the companion way - we never lose signal when it's inside even when the companion way is closed... makes me wonder if I should just mount it under the deck ...

Thanks. Only the very bottom bit unscrews. The downward facing cone part is part of the base.

I am after a surface/deck mount GPS antenna for a SOTDMA AIS. Does anyone know where these are sold in NZ? The AIS came with a stub antenna, pictured below, but this will get ripped off the first time a rope goes around it.

The 1983 race suffered a fatality when Phil Levy was lost overboard off Brilliant in fairly light conditions one night in the vicinity of Cape Turnagain. Phil’s body was never recovered after intensive eight-day search. His sister Lady Fay Gair presented the Phil Levy Memorial Trophy for the race in Phil’s memory. Source: https://www.ssanz.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/RNI2020-Entrants-Guide.pdf It's worth furthering the discussion in Phil's memory of what you could put in place to alleviate your significant other's concerns. The technology and the psychology of survival at s

It is totally appropriate to ask for advice. You're not airing any grievances, (yet), those might become inappropriate especially if you're grievances are not based on facts and start slandering the boat yard. But you're a very long way from that with your current post. Ps: I am not a moderator That said, I would have a conversation with the yard first about your concerns. Get there view. You've obviously already drawn an opinion so it would be good to get their view of it. Then you might come back to us with your view and theirs and some people here might be able

It's a grey area. By the letter of the law, as a skipper, you cannot accept any reward. However, the giving of donations, contributions or koha has never been tested in court. MaritimeNZ did an big push on this a few years ago, attempting to define the limits where they would prosecute. It went something like: getting a mate to chip in for fuel that you're both using was probably OK requiring a mate to pay for all the fuel used AND also fill the boat up after you'd got back to the ramp, was probably NOT OK asking your crew to contribute towards race costs wa

Just sits there at 0%... Have tried 3 times over several weeks... Pops up a message saying update available, but stays at 0% Any ideas anyone?

Unless the relay is diode protected it doesn't matter. 85 and 86, when given power, close the relay (turn it on). The negative can be on 85 or 86, and the switch that activates the relay can be on the positive or negative side of the circuit. (A fuse should be on the positive side). Likewise the polarity of 30 and 87 don't matter. Generally, however, the load goes to 87 and the supply goes to 30. Then with double poled relays the wiring is consistent and does matter, being supply on 30, loads on 87 and 87a.

How awesome. Thank you for helping those stranger's and protecting their property.

Opened the piller tonight and had a look at the meter. A unit is a cubic-meter, so 1000L - there's no way we have used 400L washing sheet shackles The single hose on our piller, which the neighbours own and I periodically use, was attached to our tap, so probably they used 396L out of our tap (I don't care in the slightest about the $1.53...) So that would explain my 400L usage - good to know how a unit is measured - I must of missed the notification that they started charging.

$4.50/unit. Anyone know how big a unit is? We have used 0.4 units for 17/Jan - 15/Feb - given we've only washed the shackles on the kite sheets 4 times, it seems like a unit could be quite small... maybe 10L?

100 person limit under Red. Each R66 I have done is always more than 100 people. Richmond would be full with 100 pax.

Yes it's fine to leave them both connected while the engine is running. In fact I would recommend it. I recommend against this. Because 1. overnight there will be no charge source and you'll have two different batteries connected in parallel 2. If your house is lower than the start (which is likely) when connecting them in parallel, there will be an inrush from the start to the house. If done repeatedly this will cause your start to degrade.

Yes, that's another positive for soft shackles

This is why we don't use them. Compared to tylaska shackle there is no comparison for quick. This is why we should use them on the kite sheets No right or wrong answer, always pros and cons.

You could pick up a relatively cheap ($50) solar maintenance charger from somewhere like supercheap auto. (Leave it connected for a day and then disconnect it for a week.. They are cheap for a reason) Then sell it when you're done with it...

Assuming it's for your start/charge circuit? And not your house loads? If you can avoid the both they are really fine. Sometimes you can switch through the off to get to the house. But if you have to switch through both to get to the house then that's a compromise if you have a dead/flat start battery, particularly so if it has an internal short circuit. If you find yourself in a position where the start battery is dead, don't switch back to both go home and work out why the start battery has died. The other issue with them is user error or accidental engagement. On CD t

This is a simple three switch setup that a lot of boats have. You will generally find this augmented with a VSR or a splitter so the parallel switch is never touched. To @wheels point. You should never join the start/house. (However, there's always an exception to every rule eg, while the alternator is running). If you end up with a flat start battery, open the start isolator and close the house start. Once the engine is running you could close the start... However if you're set up correctly, the start should never go flat unless it's dead, in which case leave it isolate

Yeah, I see no difference between a vsr, a charge splitter or a correctly managed parallel switch. (Not withstanding the fact that a parallel switch is a disaster waiting to happen - cause it is a question of "when" not "if" you forget it). They all have one supply, the alternator, it doesn't matter how you slice it or dice it, you can't optimally charge two different batteries from one supply, there will always be a compromise. Comparing VSR to a Splitter: A little bit of surface charge in the start battery could cause a vsr to hang on to the circuit for 30 seconds or so aft