Electronics

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Electronics

Electronics includes any electrical or electronic component that is used on board your boat.

Introduction

These days a sailing yacht carries a wide variety of electronic components including:

• Autopilots
• Battery Chargers and Charge Controllers
• Computers, laptops, printers
• EPIRBs
• Fridges and Freezers
• GPS
• Instruments
• Inverters
• Phones -- satellite phones, mobile phones, etc
• Radars
• Radios
• Stereos
• Televisions
• Water Makers

Autopilots

See autopilot

Battery Chargers and Charge Controllers

See:

• Battery Chargers
• Charge Controllers

Computers

EPIRBs

See EPIRB

Refrigeration

See Refrigeration.

GPS

See:

• Marine GPS
• NMEA 0183

Instruments (Navigation and other)

See:

• NMEA 0183

Inverters

Radars

Radios

See:

• HF Radio
• VHF Radio

Water Makers

Forums

• Power & Electronics forum on Cruiser Log
• Marine Electronics forum on Cruisers Forum.

Links

List links external to the wiki such as in Wikipedia.

See Also

• HF Radio
• VHF Radio
• Satellite Phone and others

References

• Miner Brotherton, Ed Sherman, The 12V Bible for Boats, International Marine, ISBN 0713667036
• Nigel Calder, Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How To Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems — 3rd Edition, International Marine/McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0071432388

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