attitude control systems - and their place in small boats

**duncan** · 14-10-05, 11:31

Has anyone installed, or have installed, one of these?

Friend with a small boat is fed up playing with his tabs and power trim and thinks it may be the answer.

Particularily looking at the Menthe Marine product - full info can be found http://nzmarinespares.com/My_Homepage_Files/Page21.html

**Wiggo** · 14-10-05, 11:37

As far as I'm concerned, if we have anyone on board with attitude, they can sod off and swim home.

**Its_Only_Money** · 14-10-05, 11:38

My Sprint was fitted with Bennett tabs so I fitted their Auto Tab system -it works a treat. Doesn't affect the leg trim so you still need to do that manually but takes away all the work of continually trimming the tabs. Very pleased with it indeed.

**duncan** · 14-10-05, 12:51

Is that a similar thing ? ie you manually set the attitude of the boat you want then swithc to auto and the unit controls the tabs to maintain the selected boat attitude?

**theguvnor** · 14-10-05, 13:19

I think I need a lie down - I opened this post with eagerness, only to find I had missread attitude for altitude

**Its_Only_Money** · 14-10-05, 14:10

Sound's like it, trim the boat how you want it, set that attitude in the memory and then she will auto-trim back to that attitude whenever the trim changes.

http://www.bennetttrimtabs.com/autotab.htm

Edited to add the url....

**amf** · 14-10-05, 20:10

I installed the Mente marine ACS A+ product on our S23 as the trim needed constant adjustment. Works a treat. We've got Eltrim tabs(electric) on the S23 and I also wired in the outdrive trim.

Only issue was that the Eltrim's need to be positioned mid-position before you calibrate the unit.

I ordered direct from Mente's http://www.mente-marine.com/english/product.html and I got the impression I was first customer in UK. You may be number 2?

(no connection to Mente etc etc)