Lakebug
Newbie
- Joined
- Mar 2, 2017
- Messages
- 1
- Location
- united states
- Vessel Name
- LAKEBUG
- Vessel Make
- 1999 5300 Classic
I have an old Simrad AP20 Auto Pilot thats starting to act up. From time to time I get an alarm with a message "Rudder response failure" and to stop the alarm I put it back on standby. Sometimes I can hit auto pilot again and it will work again. On a recent 25 hour Gulf crossing it worked flawlessly for 12 hours then the alarm went off. Tried several times to put it back into Auto Pilot and got the alarm so I stopped using Auto Pilot. # hours later wind really started picking up making it difficult to maintain course so I switched it into Auto and it ran for another 8 hours until the last hour. Any ideas what to look for. The fluid resiviour sight glasses are impossible to read so would low steering fluid cause this issue or do I have something failing thats on its last leg