11/21/2023 0 Comments Dockmate twist price![]() ![]() At the helm I cannot see the swim platform or the sides of the boat. I have had Yacht Controller for several years. On one hand, it rules out the risk of hitting the dock because the remote stops responding at the wrong moment.īut most importantly, I can invest the money saved for much better purposes, like a selection of good bottles for my cellar rack. Rare, of course, but it can and does happen.Īnyway, it's not like not having a YC or whatever restricts my boating in any manner.Ĭoming to think of it, the additional effort required by having no remote (which is no big deal anyhow) is a sort of win-win: The problem with wireless remotes is that they can stop working also without failing, for reasons totally outside their own control and with no advance warning - depending on external buildings, other boats around you, whatever. I agree that both wired and wireless remotes are electronic devices, and as such they can go wrong, exactly in the same way: also with wireless units, the receiver box is as exposed to wet and salt environment as wired boxes.īut well designed & assembled units, built with quality components, are pretty reliable these days.Īnyone who doesn't trust them at all, should never board any jetliner, for instance. Well, on all my boats engine controls have never been wired either - just mechanical.īut that's irrelevant, also because no modern boat runs on mechanical engines/throttles.Īnd in the worst case, also steel cables can break, by the way.īack to the point, it isn't "only" a matter of failure/malfunctions. Just take this FWIW, but it's something I learnt from an engineer involved in the development of these devices for industrial applications - hence arguably even more critical than for pleasure boating. If a wireless remote would be essential, I would probably have one, rather than give up boating.īut since it isn't, I'm happy to live with my fully mechanical engines, whose governors and gearboxes are only controlled by mechanical cables.Īnd mind, since I'm boating in the Med, 99% of my moorings are stern to, so operating the boat from the cockpit would probably be more handy for myself than for most of you folks, generally speaking. ![]() Now, as the old saying goes, you pay your money and make your choice. Which of course can be as critical as doing something else, depending on the situation. In fact, even if I don't think it's specified in the instructions of the boat devices which are being discussed, that's exactly how they also work.īottom line, if you are reversing into your berth, there is ALWAYS the possibility - unlikely as it can be - that in the very moment when you want to engage the fwd gear to stop the boat, due to some interferences, the receiver doesn't get a clean signal and therefore does nothing at all. In other words, it can happen that a crane receiver does not get a clean signal due to some interferences, and the only logical behaviour that the engineers can program in these devices for handling this occurrence is that the crane does nothing at all and remains in the same status. But, there are no ways known to mankind to be always 100% sure that the received DOES understand the signal sent by the transmitter, and acts accordingly. This is the good news, and the reason why there are wireless devices rated for critical industrial applications: accidents due to the fact that a heavy crane operator sent a "lift" command with the transmitter, and the crane actually lowered its load instead, are unheard of. There are very safe ways to avoid the receiver doing something different from what the person with the transmitter meant to do - at least with a well designed device built with quality components and embedded redundancies, as the YC is. Click to expand.Just take this FWIW, but it's something I learnt from an engineer involved in the development of these devices for industrial applications - hence arguably even more critical than for pleasure boating. ![]()
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