These are being replaced by a single Raymarine i70 instrument I got from the boat show.
The wind system stopped working last year, and I found out why. The wiring connector is held on the terminals using a round plastic piece that screws onto the back of the instrument:
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| The connector was disconnected from the display |
The top instrument displays depth and speed, and worked fine. It daisy chains using the Silva RS485 bus to the 2nd one down, the wind instrument.
The plastic holding the wiring connector was broken!
The amount of trouble I went though last year thinking it was the wind transducer that was fubared! I should have checked the bulkhead instrument displays.
Oh well, these 23 year old instruments needed to be replaced. Having the latest and greatest wind/speed/depth transducers interfaced with two i70 displays and an e7 chart plotter will be nice.
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