I installed a Raymarine wheel autopilot and performed dock side install steps, so far so good, still need to test it out on the water. It's the new version of what they've carried in the past, so lets see how it does. I am pushing the limits a little with the overall weight limits for the vessel, but with a balanced rudder, no weather helm, all new hardware from pedestal, to pulleys, to rudder, and on and on. It paid to read the install manuals over and over again. I'm glad I mounted the sensor upside down like they said I could, that made it really easy to plug in. I also followed the suggestions to drill a hole into the handrail and route the wire thru that avenue, instead of going thru the pedestal. After redoing everything in there, I had everything secure and really well put together, oh yea, you have to completely take everything apart and put is back together again no less than one dozen times before it's right.
The only gottcha was the wires from the actual drive unit, a wheel drive in this case, were brown and blue and they had female spade connectors instead of soldiered wire tips. After looking and looking, the consensus was use the Blue wire for B aka negative. Well, then I first cranked it up and did the dockside test, the wheel turned the opposite direction from what it initially thinks. I say it like that because it displayed a series of questions that had it going in the right direction within seconds, literally. I think it's a mute point on how you hook up the drive motor, the calibration process fixes which way is which.
Here are the pics of the pieces.
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