Playing with my plotter (Vulcan 5) and was trying to get the
boat speed to be the calibrated
boat speed (through the
water ) that was set using the
B&G displays.
The boat speed shows up as the raw paddlewheel speed (100%), not the calibrated speed (68%) that I calibrated on the
B&G displays. However, the adjusted
keel depth offset does
work.
The plotter will show, say 7.x knots, and the boat speed will show, say, 5.x knots. As much as I like the optimistic raw speed, it is grossly inaccurate. The B&G display allows correction for this. But the plotters don't see this correction (and doesn't appear to have any way to correct for it)
I did shoot a video of what i mean,
https://youtu.be/4a_O5UkNcjQ
For fun, I did check my other plotter on board (Lowrance HDS8 gen1) and it shows the same inaccurate speed like the other plotter.
Any idea how to get the plotter to either read the speed compensation that was set on the displays, or set some kind of compensation on the plotter?