[CA] [CA11] Upgrading from SL70 to ev200 and E127’s

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Mark,

The HS5 is essentially a marinized Ethernet network switch. Raymarine has only produced GPS sensors supported NMEA 0183, SeaTalk, and SeaTalkng / NMEA 2000 communications protocol. Such GPS sensors cannot be adapted to be mated to a HS5 RayNet Network Switch. For maximum system flexibility and redundancy within systems featuring a SeaTalkng / NMEA 2000 backbone, I generally recommend that instead of using a MFD to bridge data from NMEA 0183 devices that the NMEA 0183 devices instead be interfaced to the backbone via a NMEA 0183 to NMEA 2000 data bridging device (ex. Actisense NGW-1-ISO-STNG, etc.). When so installed, other devices on the SeaTalkng / NMEA 2000 backbone will have access data from the NMEA 0183 device, irrespective of whether a MFD is switched ON.