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NMEA wiring howto
For anyone who is interested in or struggling with NMEA wiring, I have added
a page to my website, explaining how to connect different instruments together. Especially how to connect two-wire (differentail) to single wire (single-ended) and vice-versa is covered. http://www.shipmodul.com/en/connections.html Meindert |
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NMEA wiring howto
How do we hook them up WITHOUT using the multiplexer you are selling?
How do you isolate the balanced output from ground in the bottom diagram, without providing a galvanic path to the other instruments? Of course the crap instrument on the right provides its own ground path for everything hooked to A+, anyway, along with a great path for the SSB RF to tear into no matter what shielding you use. Is there a path in your multiplexer from A+ to GND to develop this signal? Is B- just grounded in your multiplexer so this will work? On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:14:32 +0100, "Meindert Sprang" wrote: For anyone who is interested in or struggling with NMEA wiring, I have added a page to my website, explaining how to connect different instruments together. Especially how to connect two-wire (differentail) to single wire (single-ended) and vice-versa is covered. http://www.shipmodul.com/en/connections.html Meindert Larry W4CSC NNNN |
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NMEA wiring howto
"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
... How do we hook them up WITHOUT using the multiplexer you are selling? Well, just replace the word "multiplexer" by "talker" :-) How do you isolate the balanced output from ground in the bottom diagram, without providing a galvanic path to the other instruments? You don't. And it wouldn't be necessary if EVERY listener had a galvanically isolated input. That's the trouble with instruments with a single-ended input: they are not isolated from ground. The galvanic isolation has to come from the input, which is supposed to be on every instrument, according to the NMEA spec. But unfortunately.... Of course the crap instrument on the right provides its own ground path for everything hooked to A+, anyway, along with a great path for the SSB RF to tear into no matter what shielding you use. Is there a path in your multiplexer from A+ to GND to develop this signal? Is B- just grounded in your multiplexer so this will work? Yes. A and B are two outputs from one RS-422 driver. So they're both gavanically coupled with the ground. B/- is not just a ground, it is an output that carries the opposite signal of A/+, just like any RS-422 output. |
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