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Old 02-06-2017, 12:10 PM   #41
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You folks are describing what we call in industry "encoders". Absolute encoders tell you how much total motion has passed, even if later interrogated. Incremental encoders have to keep track as they go, but forget later. Sound familiar?
In anchoring, you have the issue of the "encoded" pulses getting lost in the water. So, it's hard to walk up to the already deployed anchor, and SEE how much chain is out. You either have to pull some up to the first mark, or send more out to see the next mark. For the smart phone app; make sure the app "remembers" the answer when its turned off then on again.

I know, I know; i'm overthinking this. And, I'm getting a headache.
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Old 02-06-2017, 12:25 PM   #42
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Jaysus!
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Hmm, Rub Your Balls With Grease. I wonder what that would look like....
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^^^Really?

1 meter of cheap red poly woven through chain at 25m and again at 50m has worked fine for me and is very visable from the wheelhouse
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Yes, really, 10m intervals!

The first 35m was starting to get surface rust, to the point that rust was staining the foredeck. So I decided to end-for-end the chain.

But then, rather than have the stuff at the bottom of the chain locker get really rusty I treated it with rust converter. Then I read the label, which said best to paint after using the converter. So, rather than just paint the last 35m I figured I would paint all 92m. It was during the wet windy weather recently, I didn't have much else to do.....

I'm replacing the whole lot at next haulout, or before if the rust returns before then. I use a CruzPro chain counter, the colours are not really of any consequence for me.
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Looks pretty though!
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