Tack Tick Hull Transmitter Wiring

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Hi,
I’ve got a quick question on wiring in the tack tick hull transmitter .
I’ve got the depth to work by using the coloured wires but leaving the bare wire not connected. I’m getting strange readings but I guess that’s because I’m out of the water.

I can’t get the speed to register. Does anyone know where the bare wire should go? I’ve tried a load of combinations with no success.

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I cannot find my manual but seem to recall on my install the screens go into the terminals with grey colour tabs, without the screens connected ours did not work, otherwise been working with out issue for 4 years.
 
Thanks for the response, I have the manual and it only talks about coloured wires not the bare one.

Anyone know what the bare one is for?
 
bare wire is screen and normally connected to -ve, below is except from my manual which I think is for the later model T121 but may just be change In connectors as mine has plugs and sockets

Connect the unit to the vessels 12/24Vdc supply. Note: If there is no power supply, use a Raymarine Solar Panel. Connect the transducer cables, following the colour coding on the unit. Sheath the screens to avoid short circuits. Note: for a Triducer, the screen MUST be connected to the Depth connector, NOT to the Speed connector.
Note: if the Speed transducer does not have a temperature sensor, a link MUST be connected between the brown and white terminals of the Speed connector (check carefully if using older/existing transducers).
 
I did not know that, I wondered what you were on about with screen but was too embarrassed to ask ?.
Sounds like if I connect the brown and white together I should be good.
Thanks for your help.
 
I have the tacktick hull transmitter and Airmar DST800. I only have one screen, so I leave the screen for the depth empty and connect it to the speed/temp terminals. It seems work. It is contrary to Daverw's good advice though.

Your hull transmitter seems to be an older model though. Mine does not have and bare circuit board showing, and had green screw/clamp terminals.
 
I don’t actually it matters which one the screen goes to for the tri data DST800 which I also have, both screen terminals are connected on the pcb board. I think if you have depth/speed only it then does matter not to create a loop with the screens.
 
By the way, the Tacktick transmitters are powered by three 3v rechargable button batteries. The batteries are about £70 to replace. When the battery is dead it will not work. The 12v feed is just to charge the battery.

I tried sourcing my own and making up a pack, but the charing current of the Hull Transmitter wasn't high enough. So I bought a 12v to 3v converter and hooked it up to wires I soldered to the old battery terminals. Looks a bit home-brew, but works and I'll never have to replace the batteries.
 
Thanks for the responses guys. The hull transmitter I bought is one that was only available in the 'starter pack' with the MN30 displays. When I first plugged it in the display said low voltage but after 10 mins or so its working perfectly. Just need to figure out the speed but with your responses should be ok.

While I've got you, have either of you got wind data to your autopilot? That's my next step, how to get my ST1000 integrated into the system.

Dave
 
Low voltage sounds like a battery problem. Have you got the hull transmitter wired to 12v? Might be worth checking the connections.

There are two ways to get Tacktick data to you main network. The antiquated way would be to buy the tacktick NMEA0183 unit. The modern way is to buy the Raymarine Micro-talk unit. It's about £200 and picks up the wireless Micronet signals and sends them to a NMEA2000 (Seatalk NG) network. Works like a charm, with the caveat that the signals are picked up from the displays, not the transducers, so no NM30/NM100 wind display, or no depth display and you don't get the data.
 
I could never get the wind data to NMEA0183 even though I new it was on the network as displayed on chartplotter etc, ended up converting to seatalk and it worked perfect, I now have as above ad the 2k gateway to system and also upgrade from tiller pilot to EV1 system that uses 2K, just to add the 2K gateway sends data to Tacktick network which is very useful
 
Just to finish this thread off connected the brown and white together, left both the screens disconnected and it all works perfectly.
once again thanks guys!
 
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