[Rhodes22-list] Tiller pilot - Am I overthinking this? - & NMEA 0183

[Peter Nyberg]

Mike,

I don't have a picture, but if look at a section of this video (https://youtu.be/y6p6uVo6xQ4) just after the 2 minute mark you can see pretty clearly where I mounted my pivot pin. I found the fiberglass in this area to be a pretty consistent thickness (in my case thin).

All of my NMEA enable gizmos are wired to a multiplexor which broadcasts wifi. I learned just enough about NMEA 0183 to set this up, and then promptly forgot most of it. But as I recall, some kind of multiplexor is needed (as opposed to a simple bus), because otherwise all of the 'talkers' will just talk all over each other, and the 'listeners' will just hear gibberish.

--Peter

> On 2022-03-04, at 13:53:34 EST, Mike Riter wrote:
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> Well Whew! Thanks Roger and Peter. In keeping with the notion no 2 Rhodes are 
> created the same, I found the drop from the bottom of my fiberglass tiller to be 
> level with the center of the push rod is 4".  And with both the 5" and 3" 
> extensions in place the rear pivot pin on the tiller pilot (square from the 
> tiller) just reaches the point where the curve from vertical to horizontal on 
> the starboard gunwale. Now I'm debating on whether to return the 3" adapter and 
> get a 4" adapter to add another inch or take advantage of what I'm betting is 
> thicker fiberglass at the current location. 
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> In anticipation of the wiring, I pulled out the switch panel and found a tangle 
> of unlabeled wires with multiple attachments to many of the switches. So all 
> that gets to be updated. Yaa. 
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> The wiring generates another question, I'm planning to tie this into my Garmin 
> chartplotter via NMEA 0183 and may add wind data to this one day as well. Has 
> anyone set up separate buss bars just for the NMEA? Any advice + or - on that 
> would be appreciated. 
> 
> Maybe I'm biased because I'm a R22 owner, but of the sailing and cruising forums 
> I follow, this is the friendliest and most helpful of them all. I really 
> appreciate everyone here! 
> 
> Mike Riter
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