{"id":13070,"date":"2010-09-12T02:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T07:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=13070"},"modified":"2010-09-09T17:38:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T22:38:31","slug":"furuno-2117-radar-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/furuno-2117-radar-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Furuno 2117 Radar Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Furuno-2117-problem-100.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Furuno-2117-problem-100.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Furuno-2117-problem-100.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have used Furuno radars for 30 years without a single problem until last week. The image went blank on the monitor, and after replacing a blown fuse was still blank, and red as shown here on the secondary output. The word from our friends at Furuno USA was a bad processor board and to get t he local rep aboard.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We checked around and the consensus was that for a commercial radar like the 2117 to call E3 Systems. One of their guys came by, confirmed the diagnosis, A replacement board was ordered from Madrid.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Furuno-2117-problem-101.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Furuno-2117-problem-101.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Furuno-2117-problem-101.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"554\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Todd, the E3 tech is a Kiwi and it turns out he know Kelly Archer and has worked \u00a0on the fast ferries Circa has built. Small world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Furuno-2117-problem-102.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Furuno-2117-problem-102.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Furuno-2117-problem-102.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"538\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Furuno said video card we assumed something simple, but this represents the majority of the electronics, and all of the various settings needed redoing. The board replacement required less than an hour, adjustments another hour, and we are now back in business.<\/p>\n<p>Which leaves the question of why the board failed after 3200 hours of transmit and 4500 hours of total time in operation. It could have been a short in the second video cable, connected at the black box but unconnected at the flying bridge, or a bad board. The second unused cable is now unconnected and we may never know the answer. But with 30 years of faultless experience with Furuno radar we will assume this experience was an aberration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have used Furuno radars for 30 years without a single problem until last week. The image went blank on <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/furuno-2117-radar-problem\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}