last sunday I tried to connect a laptop to the instrumentation of a boat
with a B&G Hydra 2000 system.
I downloaded a paper from b&g site:
http://www.bandg.com/pdfs/FAQs/faq007.pdf
where they use a cable named 135-0a-160
since i don't have such cable, i cut a serial cable and connected the
wires (according to the pins specified in the table) to the nmea processor
i started several serial port sniffers (also one written by me), but, of
course, it didn't work
i tried to use only pins gnd, rx and tx, tried also to swap rx and tx, but
still nothing
tried also on several different ports of the processor
my port sniffer sometimes reads strange characters, so I thougth that the
cable referenced in the document may have some electronics inside, but I
couldn't find any useful info about that
anyone can help me out on this?
thanks
Nicola