NL4-Fa
Get your boat a GPS upgrade!
The NL4-Fa attaches directly to your Faria Dash Speedometer .
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The easiest Paddle-wheel to GPS conversion ever.
A very easy install. Simply disconnect the paddle-wheel signal wire from
the back of the Faria speedometer; Attach the NL4’s green wire in its place.
Attach the red wire to BATT, and the black wire to GND. Plug in the GPS
and you’re good to go!
Attach the red wire to BATT, and the black wire to GND. Plug in the GPS
and you’re good to go!
GPS .vs. Paddlewheel
Here’s a direct analogy... Let’s say your boat’s speed is provided by piano tones. Each piano key is a distinct speed. Your boat’s computer listens to determine how fast it’s going. The ‘low’ bass tones represent slow, moving faster and faster up the keyboard to the treble keys.
If a Paddlewheel is playing this piano, it’s doing so with its fist; striking at least five keys or five speeds at once. Because at any given instant, the turbulent and violent hydraulics beneath the hull prohibit its ability to produce singular tones. Only with multiple, multiple paddlewheel turns (strikes on the piano) can the computer narrow (filter) the tone cluster into one acceptable velocity.
In contrast when the GPS plays this piano, it’s tapping the keyboard less frequent than the Paddlewheel, but striking only one key at a time.
Now agitate the Paddlewheel with more ballast, choppy water, or debris, and it may pound with both fists. In turn the computer must either filter excessively, producing sluggish speed control. Or leave the filtering unchanged: whereby the speed error increases, as does the speed drift.
The GPS. Well it’s immune to hydraulic agitation... It continues to strike pure tones.
If a Paddlewheel is playing this piano, it’s doing so with its fist; striking at least five keys or five speeds at once. Because at any given instant, the turbulent and violent hydraulics beneath the hull prohibit its ability to produce singular tones. Only with multiple, multiple paddlewheel turns (strikes on the piano) can the computer narrow (filter) the tone cluster into one acceptable velocity.
In contrast when the GPS plays this piano, it’s tapping the keyboard less frequent than the Paddlewheel, but striking only one key at a time.
Now agitate the Paddlewheel with more ballast, choppy water, or debris, and it may pound with both fists. In turn the computer must either filter excessively, producing sluggish speed control. Or leave the filtering unchanged: whereby the speed error increases, as does the speed drift.
The GPS. Well it’s immune to hydraulic agitation... It continues to strike pure tones.
For Fariatm e-speedo’s
These gauges are available to purchase with NL4-Fa packages
REPLACE YOUR OLD DOUBLE PITOT-STYLE SPEEDOs, WITH TWO FARIA E-SPEEDOMETERS.
DRIVEN FROM A SINGLE NL4-FA !!!
