[TG] [TG11] ECI-100 & STW

[BernieK]

Hi Tom
Well I managed to get the Yamaha engine directly to the MFD.
Luckily I had half a device net cable I used to make a backbone cable for STng & Devicenet on my last boat. With a couple of T Pieces and a couple of resistors for terminators, I was able to make a devicenet backbone of sorts with spurs to Yamaha gauges and MFD.

It was as you suggested. The engine and gauges produces a lot more PGNs and one of them was in fact 128259.
I did try the ECI-100 with the engine running but it still does not pass through the engine 128259, though the documentation says it should.
The ECI-100 software is V1.2 which is the latest.

I don't think it is desirable to have the Yamaha Gauge connected directly to the STng because then I have 2 different power sources connected together on the backbone.
Worse for me is that the engine battery is separate from my house battery, which is in turn charged by solar panels or the engine battery via a CTEK D250. The house battery runs all instruments.
The ECI is ideal because it separates the 2 NMEA networks.
If I was to just use the engine to power the full network, I would lose AIS data from my Ray73 unless the engine was on.

Is there anyway to reset or cause the ECI-100 to transmit all the PGNs?

There is very little technical data on the gauges, unfortunately.

At a pinch I could modify the spur cable from the gauges to STng backbone and cut the power wire, but I think that would be a last resort.
cheers
Bernie