Ramblings
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Wiring in the B600s – Friday
I spent part of Friday, and most of Saturday working on getting the AIS unit integrated into Blue Opal’s network, measuring the output of the engine tachometer, and generally fiddling with the electrical wiring locker (tidying it mostly). The end result is that the locker is tidier, the B600s is mounted properly in the locker,…
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Alarm sentences from the B600s
The B600s emits some custom sentences to indicate that there are problems (and also turns on a LED labeled “Err”). Some begin with PAMC, others with AIALR. If I remember the NMEA spec correctly, P* are proprietary, so PAMC is Proprietary AMC (Alltek Marine also call themselves AMEC). $PAMC,R,TXT,010,Power anomalies:0.00V*56 $PAMC,R,TXT,200,GPS antenna is not detected*75…
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Configuring the AIS unit
I finally decided to acquire an AIS transceiver for Blue Opal, and went with one that talks both NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000; an Alltek Marine B600s. It should happily chat with the Miniplex3, which will deal with sending the received AIS transmissions to something like my iPad (as there is no chartplotter or MFD…
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Birds!
I’ve got an older HikVision camera set up at the kitchen door, looking in to the garden. With a feeder hung in front of it, I’ve got a front row seat for bird acrobatics!
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Nostalgia, of sorts
While digging around for the supporting paperwork for a passport application, I came across a blue folder with the name of the college (Pennsylvania College of Technology) I attended in the US. Somehow, even though it’s decades distant, I still have my undergraduate transcript and the B.Sc. certificate. For posterity: Semester Course Title Grade Major/Support…
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Sunday Sailing
The forecast for today was sunny, moderately warm (on land at least), and sufficient breeze for sailing. So I did. Getting back on the mooring was a bit interesting, because the pickup was upwind of the main buoy, right in the stern of another boat!