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Chapter 3: Fault Finding & Maintenance
All Ray marine prod ucts are designed to provid e many years of trou blefree
operati on. We also put them through comprehensive testing and qua lity
assuran ce proc edures befo re shipp ing .
T his chapter p rovides information about iden tifying prob lems, i nterpreting alarm
messages , maintain ing your SmartPi lot and obtainin g product supp ort.
If a fau lt occurs with your SmartPilot, use the fault finding tab les in this section to
help identify the p roblem and provid e a so lution. If y ou c annot resolve the
prob lem yourself , refer to the product support info rmation.
3.1 Fault finding
SYMPTOM POSSIBL E CAUSE a nd SOLUTION
Display i s blank
No power – check the power and SeaTalk fuses on
course com puter, then check mai n fuse/ circuit
breaker.
Data pa ge display shows
stationa ry dashes
The con trol u nit is not r eceiving necessar y data from
other instr uments – check cabling.
Display shows rotating dashes
Compass calibration in pro gress (see SmartPilot
Commiss ioning Guide).
Displaye d compass heading
does not agree with the boat’ s
compass
Y ou have not calibrated the comp ass. Car ry out the
deviation and align ment procedures (see SmartPilot
Commiss ioning Guide).
No display bar on the displa y
Rudder bar switched off in Dis play Calib ration –
select
RUDD BAR
or
STEER BAR
.
Rudder bar display mov es in
opposite direction to rud der
Reverse the r ed and green rud der p osition senso r
connections at the cours e computer .
Boat turns slowl y and take s a
long time to come onto course
Rudder gain too low . Complete AutoLearn or increase
gain setting.
Boat overshoots when turning
onto a new course
Rudder gain too hig h. Complete AutoLearn or
decrease gain setting.
The Smar tPilot ‘hunts’ when
trying to position the rudder
Adjust t he
RUDD DA MP
setting (see SmartPilo t
Commiss ioning Guide). Increas e the damping one
level at a time until the autopilot sto ps hunting, and
always u se the lo west acceptable v alue .
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