Then he checked to see that it fit inside our existing housing and found that worked fine too. David checked it the new one sent by Gemeco by connecting it directly to the instrument at the helm and it works fine. There’s only one more transducer to fail, and it’s the speed version. It occurs to us that in the last two years, two of the transducers have failed and both have been out of production and extinct. In the meantime, we were trying to decide if we keep the incorrectly shipped speed sensor or send it back… We contacted Gemeco and despite an initial mix-up with sending us the speed sensor transducer rather than the depth sensor transducer, they were able to identify which old depth transducer we had - a model P-19 and specify that the new 200 hertz transducer would be a model D800P-200-2. In talking to Raymarine (Raymarine bought Autohelm) at the Annapolis Boat Show, they recommended we contact a company named Gemeco that apparently manufacturers all the transducers for alot of manufacturers and would be able to tell us exactly what extinct model we had and exactly which new model would work with it - apparently despite physically looking the same, different models run on different hertz’s and won’t talk to each other. Prominent on our haul out list this fall was replacing the depth sounder.
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Since we couldn’t find a serial number on the depth transducer, Gemeco was able to identify it as an extinct P-19 from e-mailing this photo! Not optimum, but we made it and had a great time rather than running back to the US to get it fixed and losing our winter’s months cruising.
So we jerry-rigged the extra Garmin GPSMap 541S depth transducer that we just happened aboard and sailed the rest of the winter’s cruise to the Bahamas with two temperamental depth sounders that worked when they wanted and quit when they didn’t feel like providing information anymore. Click here for the post covering the fun. It was blinking crazy numbers when we knew we were in 7 feet of water.
Cost $0įast forward to crossing to the Bahamas last year when the depth sounder decided to fail as we entered the harbor at Bimini to check in – luckily it waited until we got to the dock. He wasn’t positive it worked, but voila, problem solved. Bottom line, for literally nothing since a friend gave us the transducer – it was part of a lightning strike and he had all new electronics and didn’t need it anymore. But the reality is that it does work, the wind speed may not be quite correct, but it gives us a fairly good approximation as well as wind direction. So when our Wind Speed instrument stopped working last winter, we replaced the transducer at the top of the mast with a Raymarine ST 60 wind transducer that everyone told us wouldn’t work.
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However, a quick check of the pricing to replace them all with new Raymarine ST60 Plus Tridata gave us sticker shock.
Now 12 years and 11,000 miles under the keel later, the instruments are beginning to die one by one. When we bought Winterlude, we had a great display of 3 year old instrument electronics – wind, speed, depth, all Autohelm ST50 Plus Tridata. Don’t discard your old Autohelm ST 50Plus Tridata system when it stops functioning! First do the research and see if you can replace components that will bring it back to life! For a mere $265, we’ve revitalized our system, but it took a bit of research and putting pieces of the puzzle together.
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