ST60 good or not?

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My ST60 wind was installed a few years ago and has broken down twice already.Now there's no wind speed and the direction is wrong.These things are expensinve to buy and repair and don't seem seem to be very reliable,Is this usual?
 

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Never had any problems with mine alway very reliable... apart from when a crow knicked the wind vane from the top of the mast /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 

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Wind transducer replaced on warranty after water found inside "Never seen that before sir!" Log/speed transducer failed after 5 years. Bronze one so £200 to replace. Not enormously impressed.
 
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In three years Raymarine replaced one RC400 handheld plotter when it died completely after 6 months of use plus my 6000 series autohelm required a workshop fix after less than a season of use.

Could the offshoring of production to Hungary be a common factor here?
 

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My ST60+ Graphics repeater isn't (Sea)talking - or NMEA-ing - to anything else in my system, and hasn't done since installation. A fault has been identified and it is being replaced under warranty. In fairness to Raymarine there was no argument over it.

The rest of my ST60+ (wind/depth/log) are all working but the Wind only sometimes matches what the windex is already telling me more quickly. This is despite numerous attempts to calibrate. A number of reasons have been put forward for it, none of them very satisfying. I wouldn't buy the Wind again, having in any case having only purchased it as part of Raymarine's 'value pack', but to be honest the windex is so much easier to take in and respond to that I don't think I'd buy any brand of electronic wind indicator without having a better think about it next time.

I appreciate there are counter-arguments such as seeing the windex at night and/or interfacing wind data to the tillerpilot...
 

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Yeep ... My wind has broken too. If they break often enough to be considered consumables.... £500+ is too expensive, especially as Raymarine are not good at supporting retired product. I am seriously considering giving NASA a go
 

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I have Navman instruments and they have been very disappointing but I don't know what to replace them with, well I do, B&G but the cost!!. What do Dutch and French sailors etc use, there must be other choices than the ones we get in our mags.
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Oh NO

Turn up at the Golf Club with a NASA and absolutely NOBODY will talk to you, much less want to play a round with you.

And that is what Raytheon have been trading on for years.

Total rubbish IMO but I'm too mean to install B&G

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Where shall I start?

OK here, in no particular order:-

Apparent and True are now consistently the wrong way around.

ST40 Chart table repeater WAS 90 degrees out but is now 180 out and totally unalterable.

(This may be a plus feature) "Disp" will show 9kts of wind as a F5 and 3kts as a F4 but I have to say that these often pipe up within a few minutes. I didn't realise that clairvoyance was a bonus product feature.

STLK FAIL is now becoming a common sight and the books don't tell you how to deal with it.

The American call centre is manned by some abhorrently bombastic nurds with know it all attitudes but who, in fact, know little.

The three grey lumps are better than having three holes in my console but only JUST better.

The plastic covers impress the unititiated so I might just keep them until I sell the boat

Steve cronin
 

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Re: Where shall I start?

Thanks for the all replies,they just confirm my own feelings about this.
I think I'll keep mine for it's posing value and after all it's better than having to plug the hole.And the covers do look smart.I don't even bother with turning it on any more.I can guess wind speed and direction much more acurately anyway.
 
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