TackTick/Raymarine masthead wireless wind transmitter.

Not sure what those figures mean on your unit TwistedKen.

My tacktick situation has become even more comical. After getting one unit stuck up the mast and then freeing it yesterday, my wind instrument just stopped working. No data at all. So today, I tried again this time using the suggestion on this forum of using a line for retrieval. All good until the retrieval line got stuck around the spreaders. Bag got stuck, MN100 fell out, hit the deck and is now in the water.

I don't think I'm going to bother going in murky marina water after it.

So no I have no wind or depth instruments. Time to switch to a proper NMEA2000 system I think.
 
I have had a full set of Tack Ticks from 2004. The mast head unit failed in 2015 but not from battery failure - just got stiff and despite getting it going again with WD40 it kept sticking.

I bought a new unit for an eye watering price for the mast head only, and came to fit it. The well designed detachable mast head fitting had changed so that it was self tapped to the mast head - so it you want to take it down you have to take a screw driver with you!

This unit though I think is faulty as no matter how many times a calibrate it, it shows an incorrect angle on one side when close hauled - it seems not to show a linear progression when on the port tack, showing a reach when close hauled - but perfect on starboard - yet is is central when motoring directly into the wind. No amount of tweaking the heading seems to make any difference. I think that is the only adjustment to it, unless you can set it by turning in circles like resetting an autopilot.

On balance I like them - so convenient - I have a spare wind repeater (analogue) which I take to my bunk when off watch on a passage.
 
Twister_Ken said:
Larry,

See attached shots. What are they telling me. Sorry to ask, but Raymarine's Service Dept is unresponsive.

Ken

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The top one is the one you're interested in. The 32.5 is the software version of the wind indicator, and the battery indicator bottom left is telling you your battery in the wind indicator is fine. If you get the tiny flickering "volume increasing" indicator bottom right, it's telling you your masthead is currently being charged...
 
Hopefully someone can help with this tangent question. I had some of the odd values coming from my TackTick wind instrument so I bought a new transducer (eye watering price as noted above) and now I need to network the transducer. The system acted like the transducer was there even though I had not paired this new one, will they do that without pairing?

In a follow up question, the instructions for pairing suggested I power down all displays other than the one I wanted to pair but they all start and stop with powering up (or powering down) any one of them. Is this a necessary step or does it need to be done?
 
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