Where my ais gone

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Got a pair of the old original e80 plotters. During the winter they decided to reset themselves, a bit of damp I guess. Waypoints all gone and everything went back to default. Managed to get chart vectors back up and the link to the autopilot. Can’t get it to see the ais though which is a genuine raymarine unit. Does anyone know where the settings are to wake that function up? Please don’t say rtfm, it’s a foot thick
 
Thanks Richard. I've got the same problem at the end of the last season when I deliberately reset the chart plotter. It got bunged up with waypoints, routes and tracks and spent a lot of time going to a black screen. I noticed that AIS signals had disappeared afterwards but the mast had to be removed before I could investigate further. Going back to my boat in a weeks time to put her back in the water so will follow your instructions.
Mike
 
Can't help with the AIS issue but I am interested that you had to reset your plotter due to the volume of data held. I had a similar issue with my B&G Zeus2 last season. I had logged all tracks since new (2 years), a distance of about 3,500nm and it started locking up and rebooting. Advice from B&G was to clear out all tracks, even though the user memory was only about 20% full.
Clearly these plotters do not store the data very efficiently!
 
Vegable said:
Thanks Richard. I've got the same problem at the end of the last season when I deliberately reset the chart plotter. It got bunged up with waypoints, routes and tracks and spent a lot of time going to a black screen. I noticed that AIS signals had disappeared afterwards but the mast had to be removed before I could investigate further. Going back to my boat in a weeks time to put her back in the water so will follow your instructions.
Mike
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Is yours a C classic series Mike?

Just like Eastlands, my C80 has started an occasional reboot last year which it never did before and I've kept every waypoint for the last 10 years.

Is a memory clear out the answer?

Richard
 
RichardS said:
Probably something like my C80:

Presentation / Chart Layers / AIS Layer On
System Integration Menu / NMEA Port Settings / 38,400

Richard
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Excellent thanks. I had done the layers thing but am nervous of playing with NMEA settings - will give it a try. I haven't tried the radar yet either - if that gives problems will come back
 
RichardS said:
Is yours a C classic series Mike?

Just like Eastlands, my C80 has started an occasional reboot last year which it never did before and I've kept every waypoint for the last 10 years.

Is a memory clear out the answer?

Richard
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I've got the E something. It's an oldish one not one of the new ones. I read on the Raymarine site somewhere that if it gets too many "savings" in it, and if it's trying to do too much - like follow a route, lay a track, the boat is off centre on the 2/3 setting, it's getting AIS signals, has lots of waypoints in memory and so on, it starts blacking out. It's quite unnerving the first time it happened coming back from the Faroes and approaching the Butt of Lewis in the very early morning. Then I just turned it off, hit it with a rolled up chart (a la John Cleese) and switched it back on and it worked well. However last summer just after we set off for Iceland and got as far as Anglesey it started doing it again. So I took it off 2/3 offset and put us in the middle of the screen and it behaved itself......until coming back tacking through the Inner Sound between Skye and the Mainland. Then it started repeated blacking out and as we were tacking through a very wet and cold night I then decided it was time to do something about it.
Before resetting I saved all my "stuff" onto a spare cf memory card I had so I haven't lost anything. I haven't yet seriously tried it out after resetting it as the boat was due to come out of the water the next day.
Mike
 
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