"Glen Wiley Wilson" wrote in message
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On a different subject, do you know what's going on with NMEA2000?
Did it wind up being CAN, and is anyone supporting it yet? It looks
like a sweet deal for the instrument makers. RS-232/CAN convertors
are 3 times the price of RS-422/RS-232 and it looks as if they could
potentially lock out anyone who doesn't pony up the fee to get an ID
assigned. But maybe I'm just paranoid...

Well, it's pretty expensive to get NMEA2000 running for the first product.
All standards, testsuites and manufacter- and product ID for the first
product sets you back for $10,500. So I'll stick to NMEA 0183 for a while
:-)

As far as I see it, only the big guys go for NMEA2000.

Meindert