Wyoming Malibu

Thanks guys. I remounted my controller on a flat board and put it above the cup holders inside the side rail. I had my GPS antenna mounted near my blower exhaust port which meant I run out of cord before reaching the dash. I was able to snake the wire through the hole without drilling another hole and it's pretty well protected in this location. Mounting my controller under the side seems to work well. My switch line is now about 4' to 5' long and it is working very well. Thanks for the help on this.

So it appears my switch was mounted to far away from the Arduino. I had my box with the Arduino on the transom and ran two wires up to the dash for the switch. Apparently that is just to long of a run (probably 17'). If I connect the switch close to the Arduino it seems to work good. Where is everyone mounting their control box?

DuaneB thanks for the ideas. I had one power wire for the actuator power and the arduino power. The setup seems to be even less predictable the more testing I do. After reading your info I ran a new power and ground from the boat battery to the arduino. Same problem. Any other ideas? I'm starting to wonder if I need to replace the arduino.

We've been trying to trouble shoot this all day. We commented out all of the rotary encoder lines with no change. I even commented out the GPS loop with no change. Late in the day we stumbled onto some interesting stuff. We reloaded the original program and found it works pretty good if the serial monitor is not connected. If the serial monitor is connected we get the same problems shown in the debug code above. If the serial monitor is not connected we get one little glitch but other than that glitch it seems to work well. The glitch is when we turn to surf left the actuator does a brief retract, then nothing for about half a second and then deploys as it should. Overall it is working but that glitch still has me concerned. I'm wondering if it is a power supply issue. I checked my power supply output and have 9.4volts. Any ideas?

Somehow I missed your replies last fall and still don't have the bugs worked out. If your still willing to help I would appreciate it. Attached is a screen shot of the debug report. I want to add that is not always the left side that has issues. Whichever side we turn to first deploys and retracts. Then when we go to the second side both deploy and the first one to deploy retracts.

First off this is an awesome thread and you guys have done a great job. I have my controller and actuators wired in but I'm having some problems. I can turn my switch to the left and it deploys to the left correctly. Then back to the middle and it retracts correctly. Then when I turn the switch to the right it will deploy right, deploy left and retract right. It does this repeatedly. I believe it did the opposite sequence when I deployed right for the first time after startup. The print out shows surf side: right. When I turn the switch back to the center it retracts both sides. Any idea where I may have messed up? I did have a few bumps when I started because I wired things up per Jharts wiring diagram and then realized I had to rewire to match jthompson code. I have double checked the wiring per the jthompson wiring diagram and downloaded fresh code. I have the default times set to 5900 and the min speed set to -1. I couldn't get it to work by just removing the // at the end of the code on the //speed limit=1. I'm using jthompsons code and I bought all the parts jhart specked out.

I've been looking for hinges. Anyone find a specific hinge they would recommend? I've read a few posts that mention they ended up with a steel pin that rusted immediately and I don't want that. I also want something that is plenty heavy duty so when a knuckle head kid climbs over it, it doesn't bend.