Auto pilot systems

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  1. Fanie
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    Doing a search on autopilots seems like taking me back a couple of hundred years. I seem to find only mechanical junk... sorry, auto pilots for boats.

    One would think a simple electronics processor controlled version would have found the yachting community - of have I just found the wrong links ?
     
    Fanie, Oct 25, 2007
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  2. lazeyjack

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    its all micro processer, but you a re right I can not find in here either, amzazin!!
    google up Brookes and Gatehouse, or Furuno, or even ratheon, autopilots
     
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    You are stuck with electronics for control, but the best systems are all true hydraulic.

    Not the yachty setup where the wheel is attached to a pump, and the AP requires repeated starting a hyd pump of 25 or more amps .

    But the more robust system where the engine supplies hyd pressure , the "wheel" is really a valve and the AP fires 1 amp hyd solenoids to steer.

    Much easier on the AP to constantly switch an amp than dozens.

    FF
     
    FAST FRED, Oct 31, 2007
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