[CA] [CA11] Mercury Smartcraft to a78

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Welcome to the Raymarine Forum Phil,

In order to ensure that the equipment has been properly interfaced to the engine system, please add a system diagram of the NMEA 2000 communications network onboard your vessel. The diagram should list each device, show location of termination, and show the power source for the NMEA 2000 backbone.

From the Merc Monitor information found here, there are four variants of the Merc Monitor (Levels 1-4), some of which support utilizing GPS data from a NMEA 2000 source and some of which do not. Which variant is installed onboard your vessel?

The Identify Engines feature is not supported with third party engine gateways and would only be used to establish engine instance mapping in support of displaying engine data by the MFD and use of the MFD's Fuel Manager feature. The MFD features no configuration settings (other the Data Master designation ... not applicable to systems featuring a single MFD) which would be responsible for controlling data transmitted by the MFD. Essentially, if the MFD calculates it, then it will be transmitted by the MFD to the SeaTalkng backbone. Should the Mercury system to utilize data on the backbone and it be verified via a NMEA 2000 analyzer (ex. Actisense NGT-1 & Actisense NMEA Reader PC software), then it would be recommended that assistance from Mercury Marine be sought.

Those who are simply seeking to get GPS data to a Mercury system would have typically achieved this end via NMEA 0183 rather than NMEA 2000 communications. To this end, the Mercury system would typically have a GPS socket or one labeled NMEA 0183 (input) to which the NMEA 0183 output from a Raymarine system would have been interfaced. Raymarine's E22158 VHF NMEA 0183 to STng Converter Kit would have typically been installed within the marine electronics powered and properly terminated SeaTalkng / NMEA 2000 backbone to support this end.