Cable Routing

[Trevor]

Hi,
I have a Hunter 38 2007 model and need to add a raymarine wind instrument, does anyone know how to route the cable (which route) from the pedistal to the 12vdc main distribution board. Is there a flexible conduit
installed so that i can pull the cable through using a "fish tape"

 

[Alan]

Have you considered a wireless unit like the TackTick?

 

[Ron McCoy]

Trevor. Remove the decking piece from around the wheel pedestal and see how the wiring is routed under the helm and across to the port side lazzarette. You can generally find wiring from the stern light, etc all meeting in the lazzerette and funneled into a PVC pipe. However, this pipe is not the full length to the instrument panel. You should find some access panels down below (visualize where those might be in relationship to the PVC pipe) and you should discover how to fish the wiring from one section into the next. On my H386, I have a panel in the portside berth ceiling area, another in the rear of the head and vanity cabinets and eventually gaining access to the instrument panel. You might even find a string that's been installed to pull your wiring. The key is to open as many panels as possible, starting at the helm deck and tracing where Hunter actually ran the wires during manufacturing. It's not easy and you'll have to do some detective work.

 

[Gordon Taylor]

Hi,
I have a Hunter 38 2007 model and need to add a raymarine wind instrument, does anyone know how to route the cable (which route) from the pedistal to the 12vdc main distribution board. Is there a flexible conduit
installed so that i can pull the cable through using a "fish tape"

Hi Trevor
You might want to consider installing the wind instrument on the spray hood forward of the companionway. It will be a much shorter wiring run. The pedestal wiring runs down the port side leg of the pedestal and back to the back of the cockpit through the flexible black split loom conduit shown in the picture. From there it runs along the back of the bulkhead behind the aft cabin bunk to a conduit on the port side..... Of course if you already have a Raymarine instrument installed in the pod you will only need to plug a Seatalk cable into the other instrument to get network data. Wind instrument data from the mast can feed data into the network beside the 12v panel.

hope this helps.

 

[Alan]

The info from a wind instrument mounted at or near deck level would of little use. Neither speed nor direction would be accurate for sail trim use. When mounting the sensor at the masthead it should be moved as far forward and above the masthead as possible to avoid the end plate vortex which interferes with the true readings.

 

[Trevor]

Thanks for all the advice, i now have a few ideas on where to start looking for a route.
Gordon i think wou are on to something, i do have the wind instr mounted on top off the mast and i have pulled the cable down to the back of the 12v distrubution board,
i also have the raymarine tridata allready installed on the pod / pedestal. The cable coming down the mast ends in terminals on the wires, to connect to the back of the wind instr which will be mounted next to the tridata, i can link the two instruments(seatalk), my question is how to link the cable from the mast which has 5 wires into the seatalk system without cabling back to the pod. Behind the dist board i do see the 3 way seatalk plug from raymarine which probably was wired back from the tridata, for me to plug into this plug i would need to add a seatalk plug onto the loose wires coming from the mast, is this possible or have i got the wiring mixed up??? Hope i am making sense of all of this???