Get your boat a GPS upgrade!
Typically the NL4 will feed both the Dash Speedometer and Factory Installed PerfectPass.
A boat is added to this list when our product is 100%
‘Plug and Play’ into its Paddlewheel wire harness.
Here’s what we need to know for compatibility:
* The Year and Make of Boat.
* The Make and Model of Paddle-wheel; email a picture.
* The PaddleWheel connector. Follow the cable out of the
PW to its connector. What is the make/type of connector,
and the wire colors to the unique connector pin locations.
Email clear pictures... Its the best confirmation.
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.