BOAT = bring out another thousand As SV Awaitea tests us further broken compass & sonar
good morning everyone after going for my swim yesterday to try and clean the bottom of our Sonar our Sounder I have left it running overnight and come back up and it's all working just fine look at that we're in 3 m of water which is about right for the tide so I'm super happy about that hey after all that swimming around and drinking that [ __ ] water so that's great means I can put it back together and we're good to go oh why did it just stop guess what it was working fine until I went to put it back in and it stopped why did it do this so our sonar worked for 1 minute when I looked at it and it's frozen taken it apart to check the connections had a little pull of them all and look at that doll that's probably the reason oh look at this one doll that's come out too I'm not going to take them all out now I'm going to have to solder all them properly but anyway least we're on to it hopeless this one's way back in here so that's going to be difficult but I'm going to have to do that too pull that through and do it maybe I can put it through the hole at the same time so I can put a cover on the back anyway we'll get on to it so since I found one dodgy connection I've been having a look at it now I've just had well there we go a little pull who W the only one that's half any good is that one which is not that good at all so my advice to anyone that's got these connectors they're sort of a a push on uh not push on a little crimp connector in the middle is get rid of them cuz they're no good I can tell you that for sure all right let's get this all sorted and to cut them all off so so I can strip it back all nice and fresh new wire solder them heat shrink them test it to make sure there's nothing funny and then do the same to the other end jeez they're pretty fine let's turn it on see what the go is that works well it's working but not very good again wow I got rid of the freezing problem which is a good thing so after a fair bit of stuffing around I finally got our sonar to work sort off so I don't know what's wrong with it if anyone's got any advice I'd love to have it some help so it's sometimes picking up the depth it's sometimes not it's I've adjusted it the best I can I had to put it in manual mode and turn the gain up to get it to work and so on but the depth is right it'll about 2 m that's correct we're on low tide we're nearly on the bottom see how it disappears I don't know what's happening but that is the best I can do if I go to automatic range it loses the plot and tries to start Auto ranging so I don't know why it's doing that and it just continues to Auto Range so it's not quite right but it is working a bit it's a start moving on from that we've got another little problem our Compass has died it's got a crack around the Dome not sure whether you can see that dome's cracked right around it's all crazy and it's leaked the fluid out tried to find out whether it can be repaired they don't repair them anymore it's too old I'm going to have to pull that off and sort it out put a new one on that's a shame it's because we've been leaning on it when we've been getting in and out like this so I'm going to have to make up a bar to go around here so it's not leaned on and the new one and put pressure on it and all that that's the next job Kathryn's uh little chilies or capsicums are going great here look at them they're loving it I'll show you the rest of our herb garden while I'm at it Coriander and rosemary thyme parsley chives oregano and Basil down the very end there so they love it here they think it's a great spot easy to cook with that's nice look at it anyway that's our veggie patch for now and it's working just fine so I've been doing a fair bit of reading up on compasses in relation to steel boats because they don't go well together so I've um been trying to read and study up on it and understand how it all works because they generally two types of compasses you can buy one that's suited to a steel boat and the rest that aren't the ones that suited to a steel boat has big correction um magnets and iron located around it so you can adjust it to allow for the boat's magnetic field I have downloaded an app and this app measures basically magnetic field and it's in the units are micro Teslas so I am definitely no expert on this subject so if I've uh done something wrong please let me know but what this measures is the background radiation in the area so at the moment it's at 46 micro Teslas the Earth's General radiation on the surface varies between 25 to 50 micro Teslas so you can see we're sort of within a normal range as you get closer to metal this number should alter doesn't even change what about down here near the motor it's actually gone down so the idea is I was hoping to check where the compass is compared to the earth so we'll go out and check in a spot that is n affected by boats or anything so we will go up on the grass and check for a spot that's not affected by metal as you can see as I get closer to metal the number varies either up or down 99 and currently where the compass is at the moment it's 57 around the compass uh magnets that have already been glued there so this has already been corrected and adjusted previously you can see if I go near the magnet the readings go up a lot but as I go away so we're about as far away as I can get from structures and so on and the reading we've got is around 60 mind you the actual Earth can affect it as well the type of stones if you've got more magnetic stones or rocks beneath you and so on but that's our Baseline for now that's the best I can do if we get back to our Compass position it's altered a bit 88 ideally we're looking for around 60 because that's what it was up on the land this position is affected by the steel on the boat a bit 4 50 I wonder whether the direction of the iPad makes a difference oh yeah well there you go the orientation of the iPad does affect it so what's that is telling us that this is not the absolute best position for the compass but it's not the worst either so we can probably work with it if we would have had the compass over here it would be bad look at that aluminum bass doesn't affect it too much the steel of the boat doesn't actually affect it too much either the hole itself but the structure does dramatically what it's telling us is the position is relatively okay it's not greatly affected by the boat Mass itself when the boat's flat so what I'm going to do now is go and get my handheld compass and check how much deviation it's got in this area hopefully these correction magnets are enough and if that's the case I can just go and get any standard compass and put it there and it should work relatively okay we will still need to check it but like I said I'm no expert so let me know if I'm doing something wrong hey hey so I'm back in the middle of the car park again working on the install of our new Compass so I've just got I've done the gas test as you saw earlier and now I've just got my standard magnetic compass and I'm going to face it this is just an approximate test parallel with the boat parallel with the shore and I have zero North on on the compass itself so that's about parel I'll just adjust it a bit only this is just by eye so we're North's on North if you can see oops except the camera makes it go wrong we're going to do is go back and place this in the on top of the pedestal at the right height and parallel with the boat and if North is pointing North that at least means when the boat's flat and not healing that our Compass is going to roughly right and we'll be able to correct it by its correction so hopefully that's the case we'll see so I'm back on the boat and I've got me compass and I haven't adjusted the dial at all if I put a parallel with the hole and place it at the height of the compass above the pedestal look at that so it really depends on the exact Compass height so how accurate it is see that so I can get the compass that high which is going to be about 200 mm High it will be spot on which is where the last one was exactly so theoretically roughly at the moment it's going to be just fine if you look at that it's in line with the hole just got to get it at the right height if you got it at the wrong height it's going to be terrible even down here it's going to be terrible but at 200 mm High hopefully woohoo right let's order a compass new one we're on get the money out we're buying a compass how much is that going to cost if you like our content and think we're okay don't forget to subscribe subscribing helps us and commenting helps us even more within YouTube so if you want us to continue Please Subscribe got to get under there to find the cable for the sun pump okay cuz the sump pump's not working and I don't know which cable It is Well is attempting to be a contortionist got be I know I could get stuck in here yes like really yes that's H fix that no too beig that way wellow that's bad can pull the whole table off oh yeah oh yeah there is another PL white there isn't there yeah work either look at how green the coolant glows look at it can you see it I can see it I don't know if the C look so anyway that's what I'm looking for in our fridge when I look down here cuz it's got dye in it not the best after dinner it seems to be this oh yeah there's two drips there two drips oh that's in the way can you lift that big heavy thing up of course I can out of the way of course I can I'll just throw the camera over there that'll be fine nearly took my toes off I'm scaring that stop stop I said that'll be fine stop yeah I'm getting her away don't want to decapitate you I like you sometimes always always this am varies that's right the depth varies it's like the CHS it's not the best on my bad rib I tell you that is completely fine back there holy [ __ ] this drips of the glow stuff yeah oh what's going off yep that's the that is that fitting okay like really it is that fitting I can see old stuff even still there after I washed it away so not fixable by us no mate oh I could do it if I had an oxy torch or a gas if I had a guas set on wouldn't be confident if I had one of those go to buying and get a $40 gas solder I could I could can do it I could do it could yep $40 one of those map gas soing ons how do you lift this thing it weighs a ton I lift it like six times a day oh my gosh I nearly took my toes off did you really yeah I landed it on my toes what why would you do that cuz I'm a spar was like freaking 60 kilos oh so it weighs more than me huh oh so I'm confident that that's the
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