markc
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Must be magic then. Perfect grounds to have a pointless argument. I know, I know...don't feed the trolls :encouragement:
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Must be magic then. Perfect grounds to have a pointless argument. I know, I know...don't feed the trolls :encouragement:
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Well it's quite possible that someone had drilled through the case in a dodgy installation - it was a simple question that's all 
markc
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it was a simple question that's all
Sounded like you just wanted to pick a fight with someone who was trying to help out a fellow forumite. Sorry if i misinterpreted your position
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Sorry - not at all - hence the 
I added!
I added!
MapisM
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True, but I can remember at least a couple of boats where whoever installed the same radome drilled a hole inside the lower case, to route the cable directly inside the arch - I suppose to avoid leaving any part of the cable exposed to the elements.
An idea which has some merits, I would add - not so dodgy, if done properly.
Regardless, if as I understand the whole debate started to help the OP understand whether what he has is a GPS mushroom or a radome, isn't it easier to tell that the diameter of the latter is 18" or more, while the first is generally 3" or so?
It's not like it takes a caliper to be sure of what's what...
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Possibly - but then you would blank off the grommet if done properly rather than leave it poking out.
mcanderson
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For the original poster here is a link to the manuals which are very easy to download to a table.
http://www.raymarine.co.uk/view/?id=10125
My 2008 Bavaria has all legacy Raymarine kit that sounds like a mirror set up to the boat you are looking at and it works just fine for me.
The tridata has been explained.
The autopilot works either as a heading hold or you can get it to follow a route on your C80 chart plotter.
The radar will be displayed on your chart plotter (if its fitted) and it can be viewed on its own, overlaid on a chart display or on half the chart plotter screen in a split screen configuration.
You can add new Raymarine equipment to legacy with adapters, so a new touch screen chart plotter could be added for example.
As others have pointed out it’s fine, just not the latest.
http://www.raymarine.co.uk/view/?id=10125
My 2008 Bavaria has all legacy Raymarine kit that sounds like a mirror set up to the boat you are looking at and it works just fine for me.
The tridata has been explained.
The autopilot works either as a heading hold or you can get it to follow a route on your C80 chart plotter.
The radar will be displayed on your chart plotter (if its fitted) and it can be viewed on its own, overlaid on a chart display or on half the chart plotter screen in a split screen configuration.
You can add new Raymarine equipment to legacy with adapters, so a new touch screen chart plotter could be added for example.
As others have pointed out it’s fine, just not the latest.
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I you have a legacy radar - Pathfinder / RD218 etc then you can't upgrade to a newer touchscreen plotter without going digital - these are all analogue radomes.
MapisM
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Do these adapters grant a full integration? I mean, can a touch screen MFD show the radar signal coming from an old scanner, for instance?
PS: ops, I missed DV post before writing mine...
mcanderson
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Check with Raymarine, but on my old sailboat I had legacy Raymarine and removed the 435 plotter and replaced it with an e7. I brought the seatalk signal in via a seatalh ng adapter - http://www.raymarine.co.uk/view/?id=1597
I could now see all my seatalk 1 instrument on the e7 and control the autopilt via the e7 as well as via the app on my ipad.
My sailboat didn't have radar so I won't comment directly on that, but you could ask the Raymarine help forum and here is the link to their answer on the subject - http://forum.raymarine.com/showthread.php?tid=421 It looks like no, but Raymarine suggest selling it as it still has reasonable value and then investing in a new radar.
I could now see all my seatalk 1 instrument on the e7 and control the autopilt via the e7 as well as via the app on my ipad.
My sailboat didn't have radar so I won't comment directly on that, but you could ask the Raymarine help forum and here is the link to their answer on the subject - http://forum.raymarine.com/showthread.php?tid=421 It looks like no, but Raymarine suggest selling it as it still has reasonable value and then investing in a new radar.
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It's not a case of looks like - the answer is no.
mcanderson
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I give up.
jimmy_the_builder
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Not at all. If you don’t know or understand a problem don’t offer an opinion that’s all.
jimmy_the_builder
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MapisM
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Well J, I can see why you might criticize the tone - which is what "fait la musique", someone say...
But in terms of content, everything DV said was straight to the point.
If there's a statement I would argue with, it's only his first one, in post #9.
A friend of mine, before doing something completely different later in life, spent his youth onboard an offshore fishing vessel.
I'm talking of almost half a century ago, since he's now in his early 70s.
He doesn't have a clue about how to use a gps or a radar, but I would rather be out there in hairy weather with him at the helm, than with some other folks I came across, who signed 6 digits checks for their onboard electronics...
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No tone implied - it's as you say - factual and to the point otherwise you end up with TLDR.
I agree with you about your friend but don't think he's comparable to the OP. If you're buying a modern 40ft boat you really should know the difference IMO.
I agree with you about your friend but don't think he's comparable to the OP. If you're buying a modern 40ft boat you really should know the difference IMO.
Seastoke
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Have you got one of this on your roof
Then you have radar!
yes the boat does have one of those ,I know what a gps mushroom is ,it is just the boat has a dome but the broker does not say it has a radar .thanks for the answers exept disco as if you can not give good feed back please don't bother has you spoilt my thread
BruceK
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It could be bust Roy. Mine was and dealer wasn't interested in replacing.
