jimi
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I'm currently getting radar installed. Its going to cost me an extra £660 to get the screen at the helm. In the opinion of the forum is it worth it?
Radar screen postion
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david_bagshaw
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robp
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I single or shorthand quite a lot, so intend on wiring for the option of both. Depends on your crew I guess? Alone on watch mid channel, I would prefer it at the helm.
Chris_Stannard
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Short answer is yes you need the display where the helm can see it. My reasoning is that the principal use of radar is collision avoidance in low visibility or fog. In that situation I have everyone on deck and the liferaft handy just in case we get hit.
I presume that you are a raggie since the only reason I can see that you would want a longer cable than the standard 15 metres is that the scanner is 5 metres up the mast and 10 metres will not get from tha base of the mast to your helm. You therefore need an extended cable. Does the £600 include a console to mount the display or do you have that already? If so it sounds expensive.
Have you had a second quote from another supplier.? If you are on the Hamble try Diverse or Greenham Regis in Southampton
Some options, if you are going to have a chart plotter at the chart table, can that not double as the radar master and then you only need a data bus to the display. Please understand all my kit is Raymarine so other makes might not be so flexible. You might need a software upgrade to do this.
My radar display is mounted on the Bridge deck, which means all the cables are run across the deckhead under the lining and keeps to the 15 metres. I find this quite satisfactory, but I did not have a large console on the wheel to start and I do not like them.
But whatever, when you want the radar in fog you will also want to be up top, so that is where you need a display.
Chris Stannard
I presume that you are a raggie since the only reason I can see that you would want a longer cable than the standard 15 metres is that the scanner is 5 metres up the mast and 10 metres will not get from tha base of the mast to your helm. You therefore need an extended cable. Does the £600 include a console to mount the display or do you have that already? If so it sounds expensive.
Have you had a second quote from another supplier.? If you are on the Hamble try Diverse or Greenham Regis in Southampton
Some options, if you are going to have a chart plotter at the chart table, can that not double as the radar master and then you only need a data bus to the display. Please understand all my kit is Raymarine so other makes might not be so flexible. You might need a software upgrade to do this.
My radar display is mounted on the Bridge deck, which means all the cables are run across the deckhead under the lining and keeps to the 15 metres. I find this quite satisfactory, but I did not have a large console on the wheel to start and I do not like them.
But whatever, when you want the radar in fog you will also want to be up top, so that is where you need a display.
Chris Stannard
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It seems like a lot of money for a bit of extra cable. How have they justified the cost? All said and done though I will soon be fitting a combined radar/chart plotter and have come to the decision, that on a yacht when sailing short handed, having a radar/plotter where you can't see it is next to useless. It is my intention to hopefully be able to mount the display so I can easily interchange it between the cockpit and the chart table.
jimi
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Unfotunately everything you say I agree with! the £660 is made up of Navpod + custom made fitting for binnacle + cable extension + fitting! However as you say I believe there is no real option beccause as you say:
1) everybody upstairs with life jackets.
2) Poor communication between downstairs & helm.
3) Eyes & ears needed upstairs.
4) Pity the poor sod downstairs monitoring the screen in any sort of sea!
I'm going for the SL72 so that when I replace the chart plotter I will get one from the same manufacturer which will hopefully make integration simpler.
1) everybody upstairs with life jackets.
2) Poor communication between downstairs & helm.
3) Eyes & ears needed upstairs.
4) Pity the poor sod downstairs monitoring the screen in any sort of sea!
I'm going for the SL72 so that when I replace the chart plotter I will get one from the same manufacturer which will hopefully make integration simpler.
Chris_Stannard
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I would suggest that you make sure the SL82 is hsb2 compatible as I think you may need the RL series to ensure that you can integrate the units into a system when you are ready.
I have just added a chart plotter to my radar and had a lot of problems in getting the chart plotter to work as a radar at the nav position. I was advised to try a factory reset. What Raymarine did not tell me was that this should be carried out at the display which is the radar master.
Chris Stannard
I have just added a chart plotter to my radar and had a lot of problems in getting the chart plotter to work as a radar at the nav position. I was advised to try a factory reset. What Raymarine did not tell me was that this should be carried out at the display which is the radar master.
Chris Stannard
johna
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Please check with Raymarine because the old SL72 will not link with a chart plotter using HSB. However, only in the past two weeks they have brought out a version of the SL72 with the HSB link facility. I have just bought a RL70 to go with my RC520 if I had known about the new SL72 I think I would have gone that way.
Visit the Raymarine site for info.
Visit the Raymarine site for info.