Taking Charge | Adrift at Sea
, Looking at the pilotage electronics, as I wanted to see what the popular hogwash conditions were like—as I was thoughtful of effective sailing. Earlier, I had been getting mistake messages from the Raymarine Capable Controller, saying that it was powerless to command.
The Snake and Tri-Statistics instruments were unequivocally showing problems as they were no longer talking to each other over the SeaTalk network. The richness deeps transducer wasn’t registering on the Tri-Materials system either. I started testing the instruments to try and find out what was universal on with the deepness transducer and SeaTalk network.
My testing found that the voltage on the battery bank I was using was only 7.33 volts. This is even though I had the AC-based battery charger plugged into the shore power system and turned on. I tried using the starter battery bank to see if that would figure out the unruly. It did—the SeaTalk and intensity transducer problems were being caused by inadequate voltage.
This led me to look into...