Carver Owners Forum

DOes anyone know the rudder angle of a 1994 390CPMY? My new autopilot is asking for it.

its looking for the current position of the rudders.

I thought is was a degree. Like 30 degrees? Seems like a very simple set up. I am commissioning it Saturday!

Im pretty certain its looking for the current rudder angle (degrees) for calibration. If im not mistaken 0 degrees is dead center.
Been along time since I set up an autopilot, so look for a second opinion to be sure.

AHH that makes sense to me now! Thank you.

Well, according to the set up wizard, my rudder turns each direction 25 degrees. The set up wizard was a snap, now for a ride to calibrate the sensor. That will be Saturday!

If it’s a new Raymarine autopilot it doesn’t matter. Once your past that step the autopilot figures everything out on its own. I installed a new Raymarine EV1 this year and after 103 hours so far it works perfectly. I didn’t know or input the angle. Raymarine will tell you the same thing. Good luck it is a great addition to the boat!

Dave, yes it figured it out for me. I have a question though, When in the set up menu, I believe the steering was asked and there was proportional and (lol) “BANG BANG”. What the heck is BANG BANG?

I did the seatrial while it was detecting magnetic, and once out of the Channel, I did a 360 and the pilot finished set up, and appears to work well. I now need to understand how to get it to follow one of my routes. i do have it networked with the Ray e97 and e127, so I think I am AGAIN OVERCOMPLICATING THINGS.

Anyway, the BIG question is BANG BANG?