I NEED HELP WITH AN INSTALLATION…

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Welcome to the Raymarine Forum Steve,

Unfortunately, supplying custom wiring diagrams is beyond the scope of support with can be offered. Raymarine the installation manuals and Raymarine's Networking web pages provide examples addressing how to install Raymarine products. Additonally, Raymarine Certified Installers are available to install your marine electronics and may be located here.

Please click here to view the FAQ addressing how the SeaTalk devices such as the ST60 and ST60+ Instruments should be interfaced to an a/c/e/eS/gS-Series MFD. As indicated within the referenced FAQ, the SeaTalk bus should only be powered from a single source, and that should be from the SeaTalkng backbone via the SeaTalk to SeaTalkng Converter.

The SeaTalk to SeaTalkng Converter has neither been designed nor tested for use with autopilot course computer designs introduced prior to the Type 150/400/ST400+/ST5000+ Autopilot Course Computers and instrument display designs introduced prior the ST50+ Instrument Displays. Correspondingly, it is recommended that such autopilot course computers be disconnected from the SeaTalk bus an that they be interfaced via 4800 BAUD NMEA 0183 communications protocol (i.e. MFD NMEA 0183 OUT1+ to autopilot course computer NMEA 0183 IN+; MFD NMEA 0183 OUT1- to autopilot course computer NMEA 0183 IN-). The SeaTalkng to SeaTalk Cable supplied the p60 Autopilot Control Head should be connected to the Control Head's SeaTalkng port and to a D244 SeaTalk Junction Block. The SeaTalk Junction Block may then be interfaced to the SeaTalk port of the autopilot course computer via an appropriate length of SeaTalk cable having press-fit 3-pin plugs on both ends. One of the plugs of this cable will be removed to permit the leads of this cable to be connected to the color coded terminals of the autopilot course computer's SeaTalk port.

The SeaTalk to SeaTalkng Converter identified within the FAQ referenced above forms a small SeaTalkng/NMEA 2000 backbone which will need to be extended to include additional spur sockets to support interfacing other NMEA 2000 devices (i.e. the third party AIS transceiver, etc.). This is accomplished by removing one of the blue SeaTalkng Termination Plugs from the SeaTalk to SeaTalkng Converter and then installing the SeaTalkng Termination Plug within one of the blue backbone sockets of a SeaTalkng 5-Way Connector or SeaTalkng T-Piece. The SeaTalk to SeaTalkng Converter would then be joined to the SeaTalkng 5-Way Connector or SeaTalkng T-Piece via an appropriate length of SeaTalkng Backbone Cable.

Should you identify the model of SH VHF radio, then it may be possible specify how it may be interfaced to the new system.

With respect to powering equipment autopilots, MFDs, radar scanners, fishifnder sounder modules, SiriusXM Satellite Weather Receivers, Ethernet Network Switches are designed to be powered using the power cables which they have been packaged with. Please click here to view a FAQ addressing installation of power circuits for Raymarine products.