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21. Trouble shooting
21.1. What to do in case of system failure
Here below are described standard procedures to follow in case of faults. In case of vessel with 2 engines or
of vessel with two or more command stations, the redundancy of the system can overcome the situation of a
first failure and the electronic control system could continue to operate, but it is advisable to recover the boat
and immediately find and solve the problem.
21.1.1. Behavior of the system in case of unforeseen shutdown
In case the engine switches off during navigation, the normal procedure requires to turn off the ignition key
and then to turn it on again. At power-up, independently on the position of the command station, the actuator
behaves as follows:
Gearbox is moved to a the safety position (neutral)
Engine throttle is moved to minimum
The command station that had the control of the vessel, has now lost the command. To take the command
again, you must start again the following procedure:
move the lever to neutral
press “Command” and then “Warm-up”.
This procedure is described in section 3 of this manual.
21.1.2. Emergency lever and how to overcome faults during navigation in case
of system with mechanical interface
In case of system’s fault due to:
•
missing power supply
•
data transmission cables broken
•
broken push-pull cables
The electronic system can be quickly
switched off and the engines can be
operated directly with the mechanical
emergency levers.
Emergency levers are fitted on the control
box. It is sufficient to completely turn-on
(clockwise) knob (A), then the gearbox can
be operated manually using levers (B).
To enable again the control on the electronic
system,
turn-off
completely
(counter-
clockwise) knob (A) and at the first movement of the command lever, the lever on the actuator will
automatically come back to the position it had before the activation of the emergency mode.