Interfacing an A series MFD to a Yamaha Comm. Link

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Welcome to the Raymarine Forum Hayden737,

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The ECI-100 and MFD will each need to be interfaces a spurs to a powered and properly terminated SeaTalkng backbone. The ECI-100 will need to be interfaced to a spur socket within the CommandLink backbone via the E70242 Raymarine Yamaha link cable. I generally recommend creating the SeaTalkng backbone using components, backbone cables & spur cables of appropriate length rather than that being limited to the contents of a SeaTalkng Starter Kit. That said, the SeaTalkng Starter Kit contains the following components:
- A06064: SeaTalkng 5-way Connector
- A06031: SeaTalkng Backbone Terminator (x2)
- A06040: SeaTalkng Spur Cable 3m
- A06049: SeaTalkng Power Cable

As indicated above, the ECI-100 and MFD will each need to be interfaced via an appropriate length of SeaTalkng Spur Cable. As the SeaTalkng Starter Kit contains only one SeaTalkng Spur Cable, a second SeaTalkng Spur Cable will need to be purchased.