Jessie wrote:
Looking to make up a spare GPS-laptop cable - don't want to pay the
$30-35 that the official factory cable with connector and pigtails
costs just for a backup spare. Furuno says it's proprietary and no
other sources.

The connector is 6 pins, looks like a 7 pin DIN without a center pin.
Anybody know if that works - or something else?

BTW - for my old Furuno to laptop serial port - the cable connections
are Furuno black (ground) goes to pin 5 on the DB9 serial female
connector and Furuno white (signal) goes to pin 2. The serial port
specs are 4800, 1, par=No, 1, Xon/Xoff.

Unless you have some means of identifying the pins at the GPS end, the
combinations are legion!
Output from the Furuno goes to pin 2 at the RS232, input to the Furuno comes
from pin 3, and, as you rightly assume, the ground pin at the RS232 is pin
5.
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Remove "nospam" from return address.