† Item 5, Fluxgate Compass transducer. This handbook describes how to operate, maintain and install the Raymarine ST60+ Compass instrument. I just purchased a new boat and had a dealer install a Raymarine E-120 with radar, fish finder and chart plotter. I also purchased a fluxgate compass to allow the. Dec 11, 2017 The fluxgate compass can be mounted forward, aft, port or starboard, but it must be mounted on a vertical surface with the wire coming out of the bottom. All autopilots including Raymarine's will track better with speed and lower than two knots will just not perform reliably. I just purchased a new boat and had a dealer install a Raymarine E-120 with radar, fish finder and chart plotter. I also purchased a fluxgate compass to allow the.

I just purchased a new boat and had a dealer install a Raymarine E-120 with radar, fish finder and chart plotter. I also purchased a fluxgate compass to allow the radar to overlay the charts a Navionics Platinum chart. Justwrite Office 4.4. The radar seems to work fine. However, the boat icon moves backwards and all data is reversed by 180 degrees. I contacted Raymaine but they could not help. I noticed that the fluxgate compass is mounted on a locker wall with the bubble pointing towards the bow of the boat. I though maby this was the problem.

However, Raymaine indicted that as long as the arrow on the compass is point up it doesn't matter about the compass mounted direction. Criminal Case Hack Tool Without Survey. The dealer has no idea what the problem is. Does anyone know how to solve this problem. The E-120 has version 3.0 software. Thanks, Herb. When I installed a Raymarine Fluxgate Compass with our autopilot, I had to initialise the compass through a 'dealer setup' or 'owners setup' menu on the autopilot. This included driving in circles slowly to allow the compass to work out its own deviation curve etc.

Assuming that you have checked the wiring and all the wires are exactly where they are supposed to go, then there should be a setup menu somewhere to sort things out. I would double check the wiring first, and then look for the setup and initialisation menu. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your radar overlay will not work very well with only the compass. Your dealer should have explained that you need a rate gyro as well.

This gives much more accurate MARPA plotting and radar overlay working. Quote 'Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your radar overlay will not work very well with only the compass. Your dealer should have explained that you need a rate gyro as well.

This gives much more accurate MARPA plotting and radar overlay working.' Quote I think this should be 'it will work better with a rate gyro' - it will be OK without one. We had Raymarine w MARPA in the last boat without rate gyro & it was useable most of the time; obviously worse in rougher weather as the MAPA readout fluctuates more. Don't panic all is well. I had exactly the same senario when I had my fluxgate compass installed. Download Winx Club Ds Game Mission Enchantix. The fluxgate only has to be mounted on a vertical surface the rest is calibrated very easily via the software.