[CA] [CA11] Updating/replacing older Control head/Computer

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

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You may want to consider contacting Digital Yacht regarding the reported issue. Whereas autopilot course computers which were of the vintage of the Raypilot 650 Autopilot Control Head featured a NMEA 0183 communications interface, we would have typically recommended that an Actisense NGW-1-ISO be connected directly to the autopilot course computer's NMEA 0183 communications interface. The third party chartplotting product and the NGW-1-ISO would then be interfaced as individual spurs to a powered and properly terminated NMEA 2000 backbone. When installed in this manner, it would have been expected that navigation should have been able to be commanded via the third party chartplotting product (i.e. Go To Waypoint/Cursor Position or Follow Route), and then the autopilot control head would then be used to command the autopilot into Track mode.