AIS500

[bfiegener]

Chuck,
thinking more about it, it makes sense what you are saying. The x30 was hooked up as you described. When we hooked up the AIS and switched the baud rate on NEMA to 38400 rate on the MFD I lost my heading sensor from the autopilot. When I switched it back to 4800 the boat icon corrected itself.

So, just to be clear in my own head, I need to rewire the output nema leads of the X30 to the input nema 4800 leads on the AIS. Do I lease the output leads from my VHF hooked up or do I not need to hook these leads up to the AIS?
I assume that the multiplexer on the AIS will combine the 4800 transmissions from the X30 and send it out at 38400 back to the MFD?

Is my thinking correct here?
thanks again
bill