Previous owner of our boat had installed new B&G wind,speed,depth and GPS we are planing on adding EV100 Wheel Pilot .the question is
Is it possible to connect the two systems and if so what is required in terms of hardware
Grampy1,
The answer is dependent upon the type of communications interface(s) found within the third party electronics products. Should they feature a NMEA 2000 communications interface then the currently installed
powered and properly terminated SeaTalkng / NMEA 2000 backbone may be expanded to include
additional spur sockets to permit each third party NMEA 2000 device to be interfaced as a spur to the backbone. Please click
here to view a FAQ addressing how NMEA 2000 devices utilizing a DeviceNet (M) socket may be adapted to be interfaced to a SeaTalkng spur socket.
Should the third party products feature a NMEA 0183 v2.0 or higher communications interface, then these third party products may be interface to a NMEA 0183 multiplexer (for more than one third party device), which in turn may be interface to a NMEA 0183 to NMEA 2000 data bridging device (ex. Actisense NGW-1-STNG, etc.), which in turn may be interfaced to a spur socket within the aforementioned backbone.