[DG] [DG] troubleshooting wind/speed st50 instrument

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If the transfucer is disconnected the display unit points straight head which is expected.

If I turn the wind vane whoe at the top of the mast, port degrees, starboard 90 degrees and DDW 180 degrees appear to work. Pointing straight ahead at 0 degrees seems to be closer to DDW 180 degrees.

If I knew which of the 5 pins were which color, I could test this inside the boat from the junction box.

Q1. Perhaps going clockwise from the key you could tell me which pins are which color.

Q2. Also, is there a way to test the unit when not connected?

If in the end we must replace the transducer, ours has trapezoid like paddles, you mentioned the wind speed would be over stated by 30% with the new one.

Q3. Could we use the old paddles on the new unit to get normal readings?

If not, the. we must replace the entire unit and display.

Q4. Is there a wind vane/speed and display unit we can get that would plug into the old seatalk connections we use on our existing ST50+ instruments?

Thank you.