[CA] [CA11] Raymarine Radar

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Welcome to the Raymarine Forum TRD,

Product manuals for the Raymarine and Raytheon products listed may be found with the other retired manuals via Raymarine's Support web page. Should this Forum have been consulted prior to purchasing this equipment, caution would have been raised ... particularly with regard to the availability of cartography, that support, parts, and services are no longer available many these long ago retired products (i.e. C-Series Classic MFDs, 2D/4D/RD218/RD424 radomes, hsb Pathfinder Series Displays, DSM300, and L750 fishfinder). Without such cartography ... and the ability to get updates to the cartography, the chartplotters would either display no detailed cartography or would display outdated ... and therefore potentially inaccurate cartography. C-Series Classic MFDs were designed for use with Navionics Gold, Platinum, and HotMaps cartography which had been installed onto Navionics Compact Flash chart cards. Please click here to view a FAQ addressing this subject.

Similarly, the 20+ year old Raytheon branded RC520 (a hsb Pathfinder Series Display) was exclusively compatible with C-Map NT cartography which had been programmed onto C-Map C-Cards. Please click here to view a FAQ addressing this subject. To the best of my knowledge, C-Map NT chart cards have not been available for some time.

The L750 is a 20+ year old non-networked fishfinder display for which Raymarine no longer offers transducers (or other parts). Please click here to view a FAQ addressing where it may be possible to obtain a transducer for this long retired product.

Q1. I am wanting to connect the L750 into the system, but I;m not sure how. I can make a stand along unit if necessary.
A1. As indicated within the comments above, the L750 is not designed to be networked to other products.

Q2. Do I need or can I use any of the additional equipment I have?
A2. Should the Raystar 125 GPS Sensor be operational, then it may be interfaced via SeaTalk communications protocol to supply the C-Series Classic MFD with GPS data. It is not recommended that the RC520 be networked to the C-Series Classic MFD, as navigation (i.e. Go To Waypoint / Cursor Position or Follow Route) initiated on the C-Series Classic MFD and then stopped via the C-Series Classic MFD will persist on the RC520. C-Series Classic MFDs are not designed to share cartography, fishfinder, radar, or AIS features with any other products. The AIS transceiver may be interfaced to the MFD's NMEA 0183 Cable (should you have one ... no longer available) to support AIS features within the C-Series Classic MFD.

Should the Furuno equipment be operational, then you may want to consider interfacing it's NMEA 0183 output to the VHF radio and to the RC520 (if it will be used) to supply them with GPS data.

As indicated above, the key in making effective use of this equipment is the availability of acquiring up to date chart cards which may be used by these products. I apologize for not being more positive in this response, but the availability of parts and cartography for the long retired Raymarine products may be limiting or a show stopper.