Ray 260 Seatalk ng Connection

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Stan,

The advantage of interfacing a Ray260 via SeaTalkng to a system featuring a Raymarine MFD which features a SeaTalkng / NMEA 2000 communications interface include:
- ability to not only supply the MFD with AIS data (if AIS version of Ray260 installed), but also other compatible devices (ex. i70/i70S MFIDs, ST70 MFID, etc.) with AIS data.
- simple, reliable, plug and play (i.e. no wire splicing) installation
- ability to perform software updates to the Ray260 via the MFD

Outside of the items listed above, the the features supported by the system would be the same whether the Ray260 was interfaced to the system via NMEA 0183 or SeaTalkng / NMEA 2000 communications protocol.