Tag: Blue Opal
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Sodding autopilot reference transducer .. disconnected again!
Yep, it’s fallen out again. So Loctite didn’t work, epoxy didn’t work. I suspect the epoxy may not have got a good bond in the splined cavity, but have no way to prove that. Unfortunately, a replacement unit (because it’s the whole unit, wiring etc) is a few hundred Euro. Ouch. Perhaps I’ll see about…
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Suited, booted, and wired
Blue Opal is back to two house batteries now, in a parallel arrangement. I ordered a whole bunch of parts from Marine Parts Direct, and a Draper battery terminal crimper from Amazon (the club doesn’t have one, and doing it with a spanner and a hammer didn’t seem right), and have spent some hours over…
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Fixing the autopilot reference transducer, again
With K visiting over the weekend, it was a good time to re-fit the registration arm for the autopilot; she fits down the locker much more easily than I do. So, on Saturday, I roughed the splined pin with a small file to clean off the Loctite-clone and provide a good bonding surface, coated it…
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Conwy to Dun Laoghaire
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Battery diagram for Blue Opal
Courtesy of Dad, I have an easy-to-maintain set of wiring diagrams for Blue Opal. These diagrams are built using a text format called dot, and turned into an image automatically using Graphviz. The source for this particular diagram can be found here. [graphviz] graph hierarchy{ node [shape=record, fontname=”Arial”,fontsize=8, style=filled]; edge [penwidth=3]; label=”Blue Opal Wiring Diagram:…
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Further work with the Sterling ProSplit R
Sunday saw more work on the installation of the ProSplit R; I had already got all of the terminals wired up by Saturday, or so I thought. However, it turns out that I’d missed the part in the instructions about the positive terminal that needs a take-off from the D+/61/L terminal of the alternator (as…