Chapter 1: Operation; Introduction; Operating Procedures; Silencing Alarms - Raymarine ST40 Wind Owner's Handbook Manual

Chapter 1: Operation

Chapter 1: Operation

1.1 Introduction

Your ST40 Wind instrument:
• Provides apparent wind speed and direction information. Wind
• Provides true wind speed and direction information, if boat speed
• Enables a locked apparent wind angle to be defined either manually,
CAUTION
Your instrument is calibrated to factory (default) settings when
first supplied and must therefore be calibrated before use, to
ensure optimum performance on your vessel. Do NOT use the
instrument until the calibration procedures have been
satisfactorily completed, using the procedures in Chapter 4,
Calibration.
Coloured bezel and Desktop Mounting Bracket options are available
for your ST40 instrument. Contact your Raymarine dealer for further
information.

1.2 Operating procedures

Operating information is presented in flow chart form. The flow charts
show the various operating screens and key presses necessary to carry
out the various instrument functions. Key presses are momentary unless
otherwise stated.

Silencing alarms

To silence an alarm (see the Alarms section, later in this chapter),
momentarily press any one of the instrument keys.
speed units can be either knots (KTS) or metres per second (M/S), as
set during User calibration (see Chapter 4, Calibration).
information is available on SeaTalk.
or automatically by a course computer. In this mode, the instrument
shows the deviations from the locked wind angle and the direction to
steer to achieve the locked wind angle.
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