Our 1985 Catalina 30 has an old (Aqua Marine?) pedestal compass and it no longer works. The card is always at an angle and it does not spin very well. I have taken it apart several times, and a few of the clips that hold the card to the rest are damaged and it easily comes off the pivot point.
I recently added a pedestal guard mounted Simrad NSS Evo2 9" chart-reader along with replacing the old original instruments in the pods with Garmin NMEA 2000 GMI 10 displays. All the cables run up the pedestal, and those for the EVO2 come out under the base of the compass and up to the chart-reader. (The pods come out under the pod arms and into the pods.) The pedestal guard is only 1" and most cable ends could not fit through, besides the original pod cables where located in the pedestal already.
QUESTION: Is it worth having the compass repaired or replacing it ($500+) with the electronics there? Will the Depth, NMEA 2000, NEMA 0183 and Power cables that plug into the display cause a lot of deviation since they run up outside the back of the compass housing? Can it be compensated for? (We are on a lake at this time.)
I recently added a pedestal guard mounted Simrad NSS Evo2 9" chart-reader along with replacing the old original instruments in the pods with Garmin NMEA 2000 GMI 10 displays. All the cables run up the pedestal, and those for the EVO2 come out under the base of the compass and up to the chart-reader. (The pods come out under the pod arms and into the pods.) The pedestal guard is only 1" and most cable ends could not fit through, besides the original pod cables where located in the pedestal already.
QUESTION: Is it worth having the compass repaired or replacing it ($500+) with the electronics there? Will the Depth, NMEA 2000, NEMA 0183 and Power cables that plug into the display cause a lot of deviation since they run up outside the back of the compass housing? Can it be compensated for? (We are on a lake at this time.)