Wireless - what’s in it for you?

In earlier systems (previous-generation systems), data acquired by the transducers is sent via cable to displays that are linked by cable. Power, too, arrives by wire from the onboard battery bank.

Now consider Tacktick’s Micronet solution

The transmitters and transducers send data to the displays by wireless link. The Wind Transmitter and all the displays take their power from a lithium cell re-charged by a built-in solar panel. The absence of wiring makes for:








01) Ease, speed and low cost of installation
02) Weight-saving where it counts
03) Banishment of mast-removal complications
04) Freedom from cable-chafe by halyards

There’s no need to buy multiple displays, because one on its own can show a wide variety of information. But if you want data displayed at different locations simultaneously, that’s just as easy. Each display communicates by wireless with all the others.

Tacktick’s Micronet system is the result of the latest technology. But that doesn’t mean it’s untried. In the 2000 Sydney Olympics every class that could use Tacktick did so, and the winning medallists relied on it. It’s the same story in the America’s Cup, where Tacktick is vital equipment. Micronet has been evolving since 1996 from Tacktick’s award-winning instruments for racing dinghies and sports boats. In that environment electronics have to be waterproof, lightweight, visible, cable-free, independent of batteries, accurate, rugged and responsive.

The Display, too, is independent of wiring. So:

05) It can be located where you want
06) You can change its location at any time
07) You can take it below to read it there
08) It isn’t linked to a hidden rat’s nest of cables which you can’t get at to service
09) It has no water-sensitive cable joints
10) Micronet communications are as fast as, if not faster than wired networks

There’s a Tacktick instrument or network for you, from your first dinghy to the ultimate America’s Cup yacht.

Solar energy - power for life

Micronet Wind Transmitter and Displays are powered for life by the environment. Current demand is supplied by built-in solar panels. At night the units draw on excess power gathered during daylight and stored in internal lithium cells.

Current demand is so low, and the supply so efficient, that Micronet solar-powered displays are self-sufficient.Tests have shown that they will operate for days on end even with heavy use of backlighting at night and when cloud cover is extensive by day.

What does all this mean to the environment and to you?

01) Less recharging of the onboard battery bank by running the main engine or generator.
02) Ease and speed of installation; no holes to be drilled or wires to be led.
03) Big savings in cost and weight.
04) You’ll be helping to keep the oceans green.

Each Micronet display is independent of wires, so we can seal it for life.This in turn means that it can be, and is, waterproof. Not just splashproof or rainproof, but actually submersible indefinitely.There’s nowhere for water, or even moisture, to get in.This means:

05) Condensation can’t form on the inside of the glass, so there’s no misting.
06) Sensitive components are protected from salt-laden moisture, so have built-in long-term reliability.

Each Micronet display can be stored below after sailing, or even taken home with you. So there’s far less UV degradation. And security problems are minimised.

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Tacktick - Micronet : World leaders in solar-powered and wireless marine instruments