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Brooke Willson
My trusty ST 1000 took a fall to the deck when I tripped onboard Friday and dropped it. When I powered it up, the compass made no sense -- nothing approaching the proper reading, wild see-sawing when I put it on auto, etc. I tried to recallibrate the compass by doing the sailing in circles thing, but when the compass finally calibrtated, it was about fifty degrees off. Big deal, I thought: I'll just hit auto and it will hold course anyhow. NOT! All it did was hold the tiller stationary, without holding a particular heading.Did I kill the fluxgate? I guess I need to send it to the Autohelm hospital, don't I? Or is there some other reset I'm missing?Thanks for the help.