[Rhodes22-list] Tiller Pilot Recommendations

[Peter Nyberg]

Mike, 

I'm not Roger, but I'll offer some of my experience anyway.

First, I hope you've found Bill Wickman's write-up of the installation of a Raymarine ST-1000 on his boat: http://rhodes22.org/document.html?documents/TillerPilotSetuponRhodes22.pdf

To answer your second question first, I had an unused circuit on my electrical panel, and used that to power the tiller pilot.  Since that placed a breaker into the circuit, I did not also include and inline fuse.  It seems to me that would be redundant.

As for the routing of wires...  If you have the standard General Boat galley, there's an area that's below the electrical panel, above the counter-top and behind the sliding panels.  If you drill a hole in the aft panel of this area, you will have an opening into the interior space of the starboard coaming.  Do this close to the hull, just to be sure you're not drilling a hole into the cockpit.

Best of luck,

Peter Nyberg
Coventry, CT
s/v Silverheels (1988/2016)

> On 2022-01-31, at 16:36:49 EST, Michael McKay wrote:
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> Hi Roger,
> 
> I am finally prepared to install a Tiller Pilot on s/v Liber and am hoping to 
> get some additional advice before I start. 
> 
> 1) What is the best way to route the wiring harness to the starboard coaming 
> pocket? 
> 2) Did you connect your Tiller Pilot to the electric panel or bypass that and 
> connect it to the house battery directly?  I do understand that an inline fuse 
> is required in either case. 
> 
> I do plan on eventually installing a chartplotter and integrating the Tiller 
> Pilot with that, but that is a project for another day. 
> 
> Thank you for all your contributions to this forum!
> 
> Mike McKay
> s/v Liber (2006/2018)
> Allatoona Lake
> Acworth, GA
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