Tag: Electronics
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Chrsitmas Repairs…
Today’s happy repair is the wind indicator that the clumsy skipper (me…) fell and smashed during a reefing manoeuvre in darkness in the crossing from Uruguay. The cover glass was cracked in several places and the salt water that got in to the unit damaged one of the background light LED’s. After deciding that it…
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Nexus becomes Garmin, still provides good service.
My favorite instrumentation supplier Nexus has been purchased by Garmin, and I am hoping it means good things for the products. So far I have only good things to report. I needed to replace my log transducer, and Garmin provided one very quickly for a friend who was traveling down to Uruguay to join the…
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Out with the old and in with the new
One of the products that I have not at all been happy with is my Max Power bow thruster. It thrashed its internal gearbox for no apparent reason while we were in Las Palmas, so I lived without thruster since. Journeyman is not simple to maneuver without a thruster, since the “One propeller/Two rudders” combination…
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Bringing order into chaos…
I have a few items on the todo-list which starts with “Organize cables in…”. But at least one less today! Before: After:
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Meta photo of climate measuring
Photos of people taking photos are always fun! In this case it is significant: What you see is well know meteorologist and climate researcher Martin Hedberg from the Swedish Weather and Climate Center taking a snap of the just installed weather sensor on the top of Journeyman’s targa arch. One of his projects includes using…
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Funny suppliers…
Everybody knows that marine hardware suppliers tend to charge a lot of money for their products, right? Like just putting the word “Marine” on something instantly doubles the cost… I just had a rather funny example of this: As part of the climate monitoring sensors we are putting on the Journeyman we are also mounting…
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Power consumption looks promising
If you’ve been following this blog you know that I am close to over zealous when it comes to power consumption. I just ran a test. 18 interior lamps lit at dimmed comfort levels. Running lights on. Main computer and all navigation instruments running. Stereo on and playing music. VHF and AIS radio on standby.…
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Will I regret the USB outlet panel?
So, in the spirit of “The list of things to do tends to fill the available time” I felt compelled to do a nice walnut outlet panel for the onboard computer USB outlets. Plus a standard 12V outlet. Maybe I will regret doing things like this in 4 months time when we have a total…
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Only the best is good enough for a Journeyman
I am very happy to welcome Nexus Marine as partners in the Journeyman Project. The NXR Instrumentation System comes with outstanding precision and in my opinion clearly superior ergonomics, especially at night. Plus it has the Steering Pilot, an instrument which is invaluable when you are sailing with inexperienced helmsmen. So I would have chosen…
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Übernörd kan tyckas…
Nu så här i mellantiden innan jag drar till varvet för att delta mer aktivt i arbetet har jag roat mig med att ta fram en armatur för inomhusbelysningen i båten. Vanliga lampor drar alldeles för mycket ström, alltså använder man LED-lampor. I en båt som seglar dygnet om vill man gärna ha både vanligt…