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Using a laptop with a Raymarine E-80?
what's a bridge? I'm interested in all this stuff, but have no
experience in it. I just bought a Ray marine, wind/speed/depth combo, but I think I made a mistake. It doesn't do NMEA without another Raymarine gadget, costs $160. I'd like to be able to use my Gps, (Garmin) depth, and a DSC VHF. What a mess this all appears to be! I also imagine that NMEA sentences don't just "do" something on a laptop without some software. Can anyone tell me if this is correct? Bill Kearney wrote: You will need to pick up data-out, data-in and ground from the Raymarine E-80 and connect respectively to pin 2, pin 3 and pin 5 on the 9-pin serial plug. Raymarine used to use there own protocol, called Seatalk, not NMEA, and a converter was necessary, but I don't know if that still applies. I suspect that Coastal Explorer requires NMEA sentences. Right, Coastal Explorer uses NMEA. The question is what're the options on getting NMEA in/out of a Raymarine setup and what's better about each? I can, of course, just go with an NMEA serial right out the back. Actually, I can't in this boat's setup as that port's already taken. So I have to get it from somewhere else. Either throught a Seatalk, hs, hs2 or high-speed port. And then out of there as either serial or usb. So whose bridge works best (and whose should I avoid)? |
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