Raymarine C80 Chartplotter/radar

[Spellman66]

The bride and I took our new, to us, C310 on it's first sail up to our club. Halfway there black vertical lines started appearing on the screen. If I zoomed in close they reduced but didn't go away. It is 10 years old and was installed by the original owner, from whom we bought it.

I called Raymarine's tech support and left two messages without response. Is this the normal life expectancy for these units? Where would I look to find someone to service it or install a new one?

Many thanks.

Jack Murray

 

[rukidn]

You may want to check with Dan Gerhardt in Colorado. He fixed my Raymarine ST4000 autopilot (now a spare) and my wind instrument as well. If he can't work on yours, he may know someone. Nice guy, great work at a reasonable cost (vs. Raymarine). C250@mydurango.net

 

[rukidn]

OH! and congratulations on your first cruise.

 

[Stu Jackson]

Jack, for anything & everything electrical, if there is intermittent operation it almost 99% connections. I'd check those before assuming the board in the unit is faulty. Good luck.

 

[JK_Boston_Catalina310]

I second Stu's thought. Check you connects. Especially in the bilge. Look at the rats nest I found in my 2001 C310.

 

[Sefuller]

JK - I have an identical rats nest inside a waterproof box in my boat - what did you replace yours with?

 

[JK_Boston_Catalina310]

I use Blue Sea terminal bars and ring terminals on the wires.

Check out this link. http://www.pbase.com/mainecruising/terminating_small_wires

 

[mz4wheeler]

Look at the rats nest I found in my 2001 C310.

Actually, I think this looks pretty darn good!

 

[DaveJ]

There are many opinions on making terminations, but about the worst thing you can do is put a small wire under a screw and tighten it....real tight. Ring terminals are good for the proper application, but I find that ferrules are very good for small wires when terminated to terminal blocks. I have a small junction box inside the base of my mast that terminates the wind instrument wiring. I dropped my mast this year for maintenance and when I reconnected these wires I used ferrules on the wires in the terminal blocks, then taped the whole box. I found some poor connections on the lighting connections, one of the butt splices actually pulled out when the mast was lowered. I recrimped everything with new connectors and applied heat shrink over the marine splices. Whether its a rats nest in the bilge or a poor connection in the mast, either can fail at the most inopportune time....best to make the proper connections the first time!
(Guess I should look in my bilge to see what mine look like)
Cheers

 

[LeoLambert310]

I had the same thing on C70 unit found the Circuit board had some Corrosion (salt air) clean the contacts and working again.