Nasa Clipper repeater

[thalassa]

It was Christmas again today when my box with a Nasa Clipper wind meter arrived. It works perfectly, but the close-haul repeater which came with it behaved badly.
On startup, these instruments go into a self-test routine ( lights flashing, displays running) , but the repeater never exits the routine, and can only be used as next Christmas' decorations. Does anyone know a reset sequence ? With their depth meters, you have to press all buttons at once, if I remember well ,but that trick doesn't work on this beastie. Thanks in advance.

 

[milltech]

I would suggest a call to Nasa at 01438 354033 or mail to nasamarine@aol.com would be the best place to start.

John
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[matahari]

I should be carefull contacting NASA as when I had problems with my repeater they were very unhelpfull. The problem turned out to be that the repeater required NMEA greater than version 2 and nothing in their literature tells you this and the majority of supliers don't either. However John at allgadgets was very good and helped me out. I fitted a SILVA repeater and it worked first time.

 

[milltech]

I think you're referring to the GPS repeater and you are quite correct, but the same would not be true of the instrument repeaters which are dedicated to the Nasa unit only, so compatibility is not an issue.

Thanks for the comment, I do my best!

John
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[thalassa]

Thank you for the Nasa info. I'll try to mail them. I don't think the NMEA is the issue either, since both instruments are the same generation. I hooked up the wind meter to my computer, and the NMEA sentences read fine. If I hook up the repeater to 12V , without the wind meter, I would suppose it would do its test routine, and then go on hold, waiting to receive the NMEA handshake. But that doesn't happen. The test routine never ends.