Monday, 31 October 2016

Replaced anchor windlass control

One thing on the hand back report from the PYD delivery skipper was the issue of the windlass remote not working. I isolated the problem to the standard Lofrans hand held up/down hand control.

On stripping it down it was clear that a small leak and 10 years of salt water had done its work. Some internal wiring and PCB track had been eaten away. This is not really a serviceable unit with the breaking of cheapo plastic mouldings needed to release the PCB.




I did a reasonable bodge repair, replaced corroded circuit parts and sealed the lot in Plastidip. It worked fine... for about 2 weeks and then decided to either not work or get stuck in the UP position causing Audrey some serious frustration anchoring off Hayling Island.














In the end I sacked it off and bought a new one. We just can't be dealing with the anchor control doing weird stuff. Its not good for marital harmony.

The new unit had a different plug so I swapped the old one onto it.