Seatalk2 to STng

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Welcome to the Raymarine Forum tgsail1,

Q1)Will the i70 instrument calibrate the speed pod (is the calibration even done at the pod level?)?
A1) Should the ST290 instrument pod be interfaced to a SeaTalkng backbone to which the i70/i70S MFID has been interfaced, then the MFID will indeed support calibration of the speed transducer.

Q2) I have an ST60 wind instrument which is just fine and I'm not quite ready to replace. It currently gets its water speed data from an old ST50 ST device. If I use one port of the i70 instrument to run ST to the ST60wind instrument, get the speed from the ST290 pod on the STNG/NMEA2000 network, on the other port of the i70, will the speed data pass to the ST60 wind instrument. The tables in the back of the i70 manual seem to say that speed data will be forwarded both ways, but want to be sure.
A2) The i50, i60, i70, p70/p70S, and p70R/p70RS devices each feature communications circuitry which may support either SeaTalk or SeaTalkng communications, but not both simultaneously. As the i70/i70S MFID will be interfaced to a SeaTalkng backbone to communicate with the ST290 Speed Pod, communications with compatible SeaTalk devices must then be achieved via a SeaTalk to SeaTalkng Converter which will be installed as a component within the SeaTalkng backbone.