ST7000 instrument lights

[greggron]

Having recently acquired a boat with a ST7000 autohelm, we can get the display illumination to come on for night passages, but cannot find a way of making the Auto, Standby and course alteration buttons illuminate. Does anyone know if these actually have an illumination facility and how to operate it, or are the buttons simply not made so that they light?

Advice welcome.

TIA

 

[matthewriches]

I have one on a customers boat so can check for you Monday if you're still wondering.

 

[greggron]

I have one on a customers boat so can check for you Monday if you're still wondering.

Yes please that would be very kind of you.

 

[jiris]

Having recently acquired a boat with a ST7000 autohelm, we can get the display illumination to come on for night passages, but cannot find a way of making the Auto, Standby and course alteration buttons illuminate. Does anyone know if these actually have an illumination facility and how to operate it, or are the buttons simply not made so that they light?

Advice welcome.

TIA

They should illuminate together with the screen. An internal fault. The whole autohelm is a bit of dog, if you ask me ;-).

 

[superheat6k]

I checked this on my ST7000 yesterday. Only the display panel is backlit. There might be later versions of the ST7000.

(NB this is a photo taken when I bought the boat - I have sorted the woodwork now !)

 

[greggron]

I checked this on my ST7000 yesterday. Only the display panel is backlit.

Ok, thank you. That seems to contradict with jiris so I’m now a bit confused.

 

[jiris]

Ok, thank you. That seems to contradict with jiris so I’m now a bit confused.

The confusion may be my fault. I actually have ST6000 (with the buttons lit) and as these two look identical, I assumed automatically the basic functions will be the same. Still find hard to believe they wouldn't be and find especially strange Raymarine would abandon a simple but useful feature on a higher model. But, as I indicated before, these people apparently enjoy doing strange and illogical things ;-).

 

[jiris]

O.K., my mix-up goes a bit further . After seeing the photo, I realised you are talking about the Autohelm model, much older than "Autopilot"that I have. A different animal altogether. My apology.

 

[matthewriches]

Sorry only got there to check today. - been crazy week! Only the screen was lit on this particular one so I guess no help?

All else fails then get a chart light lol or some glow in the dark paint!

 

[greggron]

Sorry only got there to check today. - been crazy week! Only the screen was lit on this particular one so I guess no help?

All else fails then get a chart light lol or some glow in the dark paint!

Thanks for the effort - much appreciated. I think a call to the manufacturer is in order and if the answer is lost from the corporate memory then take a screwdriver to the box. We've done some long passages lately which this time of the year means mostly in the dark and it seems a bit of an oversight for such an expensive piece of kit for it not to have the important buttons illuminated.