Cable run for a wind indicator

[Miker]

I've just got delivery of a Navman 3150 wind indicator and thought that I had better read the instructions for installation. It says "keep the cable away from other cables, engines,...." which is a bit of a B. I would welcome advice on this. Will it be OK to run the masthead cable through the cabin in a conduit alongside the VHF cable. There will also be the lighting cables outside the conduit but alongside it. I am not sure yet about the mast itself. I think that the VHF and lighting cables just hang down inside. I suppose that I could take the mast down and keep the cables apart by the use of cable ties - it would stop the cable rattling if nothing else.

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[philip_stevens]

Don't worry too much about keeping it apart - impossible anyway.
I also have a Navman wind instrument, and the cable was dropped down a spare slot in the aft section of the mast.
Where the cables run inside the boat, there are many others running alongside them - log, depth, lighting, etc, and then it is passing under the cool box cooler, and clipped to NMEA cables, lighting and so on.
It hasn't appeared to effect it in any way.
In fact, after going to the cockpit display, the instrument then sends NMEA data to the GPS -all alongside each other.

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Philip

 

[Miker]

Thanks. Perhaps it would be better if I didn't scare myself by reading the instructions first. If all else fails etc.

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