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Installation of the Sensor Ball 

  Hold the mounting bracket in the desired 

position and drill through the holes into the 

mounting surface. (Be sure that the wire 

coming out of the ball can exit the ball 

straight down.) Tap if necessary.  Install and 

tighten the three mounting screws as shown 

in

fig.8-a

If you need to make a paper template for a 

drill pattern:  The mounting holes are equally 

spaced on a 1.224 inch radius circle. 

Fig. 8-a 

Fig. 8-b 

Place the ball, wires down, into the 

bracket and capture it by snapping the 

cage over the ball, sliding the tips of the 

cage between the ball and the legs of the 

bracket.  Do the two legs without the 

thumbscrew first. Rotate cage upwards to 

catch the bracket with the thumbscrew. 

See

fig. 8-b

Step one (Mounting the Sensor Ball)

Step two (Placing ball in bracket)

The Sensor (Compass) Ball needs to be mounted forward of the center of your boat.  Make sure 

you mount it away from magnetic disturbances (stereo speakers, wiper motors, anchors).   You 

will need to calibrate your compass on the water after installation of system and before you use 

the autopilot. 

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Summary of Contents for TR-1 Gold

Page 1: ...TR 1 Gold Owner s Manual 906 2000 00 RevH 101507 ...

Page 2: ...attery Connections Page 14 Connect Fill Hydraulic System Page 15 GPS Connections Page 18 System Functions and Features Page 19 Operating the System Page 20 Power On Off Deckmount Page 21 Engaging Heading Hold Page 21 Change Heading with Remote Steer Page 21 Change Heading with RCAH Changing Heading while in Autopilot Page 22 GPS Steering Page 23 Setting North Page 23 Course overground Page 23 Stee...

Page 3: ...ower cable The steering cylinder can be removed from its mounting bracket on the outboard in case of hydraulic jamming Removing the actuating link between the stepper motor and the carburetor butterfly crank can disable the electric throttle Caution Before drilling holes in your boat be sure you know what you are drilling into Watch out for fuel tanks electrical cables and hydraulic hoses Do not r...

Page 4: ...head machine screws 8 32x 3 4 3 ea Lock washer nuts 8 32 3 ea Truss head sheet metal screws 8 x 3 4 Sensor Ball Unit 120 2200 00 Sensor Ball Bracket 3 ea Pan head machine screws 8 32 x 1 3 ea Lock washer nuts 8 32 3 ea Pan head sheet metal screws 8 x 1 Sensor Ball Capture Cage Deck Mount Switch Tach 120 2215 00 4 ...

Page 5: ...andheld Remote Unit 120 2020 00 Cylinder Mounting Kit Motor Specific 18 feet Hydraulic Hose 120 0013 01 Steering Cylinder 120 0900 00 Throttle Actuator Motor Specific 1 pt Hydraulic Fluid 120 0001 01 Bio Soy ...

Page 6: ...be hard mounting three autopilot components in your boat 1 The Electrohydraulic Unit 2 The Deckmount switch 3 The Sensor ball These components are shown in relation to each other and to the engine mounted components in the System Layout diagram on page 8 As indicated by this diagram the Electrohydraulic unit and the Deckmount switch are to be located near the kicker and the Sensor ball is to be lo...

Page 7: ...lectrohydraulic unit to the engine mounted components need to be free from binding and kinking Be sure to remember your kicker moves up and down on the lift bracket tilts up and down and steers lock to lock x Hose Length Try to keep the hose length between the steering cylinder and the Electrohydraulic unit short But leave enough length for movement of Kicker See note above on moving Parts x Magne...

Page 8: ... 2 of boat GPS connection NMEA 0183 Battery 12V Deckmount On Off switch Mounts near kicker motor near transom Electrohydraulic Unit Mount near transom Cylinder Cylinder Mounting Bracket Mounts on Motor lower end Tach sensor wire Attaches to spark plug wire on kicker 1 2 3 4 Handheld Remote 8 ...

Page 9: ...Corning 4 Installation of The Electro Hydraulic Unit Step one Template Find the mounting template in your autopilot documentation package Use the wall or floor section of the template as needed Decide which screw type you need Hold the template in the place with tape and drill right through it in the three indicated locations See fig 5 Remove template and install screws in the indicated locations ...

Page 10: ...tom tab of the right hand bracket When the holes line up put the last screw in and the E H unit is locked in place as shown in fig 6 Wall Mount Set in place by hanging the unit on the screws One is the keyhole shape on the upper left backside of E H unit the other is the notched area on the lower right side of E H unit Lock E H unit in place by lining up the last hole on upper right hand corner Pl...

Page 11: ...lace the ball wires down into the bracket and capture it by snapping the cage over the ball sliding the tips of the cage between the ball and the legs of the bracket Do the two legs without the thumbscrew first Rotate cage upwards to catch the bracket with the thumbscrew See fig 8 b Step one Mounting the Sensor Ball Step two Placing ball in bracket The Sensor Compass Ball needs to be mounted forwa...

Page 12: ...CU wiring configuration to the picture Just remember to always plug into matching numbers from the wire to the ECU Fig 10 b Run the wire back to the E H unit The wire connector from the Sensor Ball is labeled number 4 It connects to the E H unit at connector 4 as shown in fig 10 a or 10 b this will depend on your ECU wiring configuration When you plug in the connectors the wires go at about a 45q ...

Page 13: ...el mounting bracket for the switch Step One Deckmount Fig 11 Step Two Tach The Tach is the portion of the cable with a white antenna end The antenna end needs to be installed into your outboard motor The wire connector from the deck mount Tach switch is labeled number 1 It connects to the E H unit at connector number 1 Route the Tach portion of the wire from the E H unit back to the motor Remove t...

Page 14: ...tion Installation Connections At this point all electrical connections to the Electrohydraulic unit are complete Some ECU wiring configurations are slightly different see fig 13 a and fig 13 b for your variation Verify these connections as follows Deck mount 1 To ECU connector 1 Throttle 2 To ECU connector 2 Handheld 3 To ECU connector 3 Sensor Ball 4 To ECU connector 4 Now hook up the battery con...

Page 15: ...eering tension adjustment on your motor to the minimum setting The motor should turn very easily If necessary refer to your outboard motor s owner s manual x As with all hydraulic systems it is very important to keep any dirt or debris from entering the system Step One Remove the Left side of the kinked clear shipping tube from the E H unit Keep the kinked clear tube with the tie wrap on the Right...

Page 16: ...button on the remote Auto Stby the Auto Led will be lit Holding the tube in the tank press the Left Straight Arrow Refer to fig 15 The fluid level will go down Let the button up and place system in STBY when the fluid is low and refill the tank Do not press the Straight Right Arrow Button you will blow the clear tube off the right side and create a hydraulic fluid mess You may need to fill the tan...

Page 17: ...cylinder as far as it will go Now remove the short clear hose from the cylinder and drain the fluid from the tubing into the bottle Be sure both cylinder fittings are full to the top Point the rod end of the cylinder toward the pin that engages it but leave it pushed into the cylinder Step Seven Correctly connect the hose At the cylinder kink the black hose bend it over sharply and use a tie wrap ...

Page 18: ...r should run the carburetor to idle Pushing and releasing these buttons quickly moves the throttle by small amounts Holding them down changes the throttle by large amounts Move the throttle to mid travel and then press the IDLE RES button The throttle should go to idle Press the button again and the throttle should go back to the mid travel position You will need to calibrate the Compass of your A...

Page 19: ...in a constant magnetic heading The autopilot measures magnetic heading with a flux gate compass and receives rate of turn information from a vibrating beam rate sensor gyroscope The autopilot computer forms a rudder rate command from a combination of the compass gyro and engine tachometer signals This rudder rate command is calculated and sent to the pump controller in the electrohydraulic unit el...

Page 20: ...wer down the stepper is commanded to take the butterfly valve to its closed throttle position The throttle system has an Idle Resume feature that provides for single button push reduction of throttle to idle and subsequent button push resumption of the initial RPM Operating The System Most of the operation of the autopilot is accomplished through the remote control and the deckmount switch To make...

Page 21: ... on the handheld engages and disengages autopilot steering The Deckmount button performs the same function after the pilot is powered up When the button is pushed to go into Auto mode the pilot captures the compass heading and subsequent moves the rudder to hold that heading The LED next to Auto will illuminate when The autopilot is engaged You should be steering your boat on a constant heading at...

Page 22: ...ake a port or starboard turn The rudder turns as long as the button is held down or until the rudder reaches the end of its travel range When you release the button the autopilot will move the rudder to stop the boat from turning When the turn is stopped the autopilot captures the compass heading and then moves the rudder so as to maintain this heading An example RCAH turn is shown in the figure b...

Page 23: ...lot cannot fix steering errors that are GPS generated Keep an eye on where you are going when you couple the GPS to the autopilot When the autopilot is taking steering commands from the GPS the GPS Select Load LED will be lit solid If the autopilot detects a GPS problem it will blink this LED Press any button to extinguish the blinking LED Set North To run a GPS course requires that the autopilot ...

Page 24: ...ecial function for the Bent Arrow buttons pressing either Bent Arrow button will start the boat on the cloverleaf pattern If you used the Bent Right Arrow button the cloverleaf will be traversed by always turning to starboard the other Bent Arrow button will cause the pattern to be traversed while always turning to port The length of one of the cloverleaf is programmed with setup code 28 It is adj...

Page 25: ...heading hold press and release the GPS Select Load button and then press and release one of the Bent Arrow buttons If you pressed the Bent Right Arrow button the waypoint will remain on your starboard side as the spiral search unwinds The spacing between the spiral laps is set with setup code 249 Search Pattern GPS Steering Return to heading hold by pressing one of the straight arrow buttons An ex...

Page 26: ...cause your boat to be driven in a clockwise from above circle with a lap time between 1 and 90 minutes programmable The Bent Left Arrow button will cause counterclockwise turns You can exit the circle and run straight anytime by pressing either the Straight Right Arrow or Straight Left Arrow button Circles If you program the Bent Right Arrow and Bent Left Arrow buttons for Steps when one of these ...

Page 27: ...itting in the idle position the Idle Resume function will return the throttle to the last above idle position The Idle Resume button must be programmed to perform Idle Resume and not MOB or Zigzags Idle Resume Increase throttle by pressing the Up Arrow button Decrease throttle by pressing the Down Arrow button The electric throttle runs in parallel with the tiller throttle this means that you can ...

Page 28: ...board when the Bent Right Arrow button is pressed 4 Orbit a waypoint clockwise when the Bent Right Arrow button is pressed and the system is tracking a GPS signal 5 Orbit a waypoint clunterclockwise when the Bent Left Arrow button is pressed and the system is tracking a GPS signal 3 Select the Special Function you want to use by pressing and releasing the Idle Resume and Left Bent Arrow button unt...

Page 29: ...s that take the system over and restart the autopilot computer The button sequences for their operation are given in the Table of Setup Codes below 8 To view the operating value of an adjustable parameter enter its code per the Table of Setup codes then press and hold the GPS Select Load button The LED on the Up Arrow button will blink the number of tens the parameter is set to and the LED on the ...

Page 30: ...afety Monitor 349 2 settings on off defaults to on every power up on Tach on off 34 2 settings on off on Show RPM 36 1000 s blink on up Arrow Hold Down Select Load Button 100 s blink on down Arrow Hydraulic Codes Reverse Hoses 259 2 settings normal up arrow lit reverse down arrow lit normal Special Function Setup Codes Degrees per Step 6 10 choices 1 2 3 4 5 10 15 30 45 or 90 Degrees 15 Circle Tim...

Page 31: ...f off Use Magnetic North 39 2 settings on off on Set North 48 Hold Down Select Load Button press and release Deckmount Button to set north See Notes code 48 Enable Checksums 347 2 settings on off on Notes Code 1 Seastate adjustments toward least responsive slow the heading response down Most of the time you will want to run with this parameter all the way at the top of its range Codes 15 16 The be...

Page 32: ...information to the autopilot correctly You must point your boat north and then press and release the Deckmount switch to set compass north If the Up Arrow LED does not illuminate press and release the Deckmount switch to set compass north In this case you do not need to be pointing north you only need to be going in a straight line Your pilot will power down after north has been set Code 259 If yo...

Page 33: ...Up Arrow LED will turn on Now drive in a straight line and watch for the Up Arrow LED to start blinking When it starts to blink begin turning to starboard Turn at a rate that makes a full 360 degree turn in 30 seconds to one minute You will need to make about 3 to 4 full turns Continue to turn until the Up Arrow and Down Arrow LED s both light up They will stay lit for about five seconds and then ...

Page 34: ...f the pilot doesn t stop the turn very well decrease Counter Rudder code 3 gain and increase Rudder Gain code 2 b If the pilot moves the rudder too far when stopping the turn increase the Counter Rudder Gain Code 3 You should be able to home in on the proper gain settings in a few minutes a If you find that high speed performance gets twitchy when low speed performance is adjusted well reduce the ...

Page 35: ...f rudder required depends on many variables like hull shape boat loading how fast the rudder can move boat speed through the water and more If we had numerical values for all the variables affecting the required rudder deflection we could calculate the required rudder gain and apply it with the rule Rudder is applied in proportion to heading error and the proportional constant is rudder gain Since...

Page 36: ...at you have reached this tune when attempts to increase the Rudder Gain or Decrease the counter rudder gain results in oscillations in heading Initial factory setting for Counter Rudder Gain is on the high side for most boats and the initial factory setting for Rudder Gain is on the low side So the normal search pattern is to increase Rudder gain and decrease Counter Rudder gain and look at the re...

Page 37: ...ng response will become unstable do everything but hold heading The plot also shows when the Rudder Gain is set too high that the heading oscillates with a high frequency the rudder will be seen to be oscillating with large amplitude and high frequency as the Rudder Gain becomes too much 0 2 4 6 8 Heading 0 2 4 6 8 10 Time Too Low Too High Counter Rudder Gain Effects Counter Rudder Gain effects ar...

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