Chapter 3: Maintenance & Fault Finding; General Maintenance - Raymarine SportPilot Owner's Handbook Manual

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Chapter 3: Maintenance & Fault Finding
Chapter 3: Maintenance & Fault Finding
This chapter provides information about maintaining your SportPilot system,
obtaining product support and solving common problems.

3.1 General maintenance

CAUTION:
The SportPilot and fluxgate compass do not contain any user
serviceable parts. These products should be serviced only by
authorized Raymarine service technicians.
Routine cabling checks
• Make sure all connections are firmly attached.
• Examine the cables for signs of wear or damage – replace any damaged
cables.
Cleaning the SportPilot
• If the SportPilot is dirty, wipe it with a clean, damp cloth.
• Never use chemical or abrasive materials to clean the SportPilot.
EMC advice
• When powered up, all electrical equipment produces electromagnetic fields.
These can cause adjacent pieces of electrical equipment to interact with one
another, with a consequent adverse effect on operation.
• To minimize these effects and enable you to get the best possible perfor-
mance from your Raymarine equipment, guidelines are given in the installa-
tion instructions, to enable you to ensure minimum interaction between
different items of equipment, i.e. ensure optimum Electromagnetic Compati-
bility (EMC).
• Always report any EMC-related problems to your nearest Raymarine dealer.
We use such information to improve our quality standards.
• In some installations, it may not be possible to prevent the equipment from
being affected by external influences. In general this will not damage the
equipment but it can lead to spurious resetting action, or momentarily may
result in faulty operation.
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