chart plotter /autohelm

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does antbody know how to mke my chart plotter (raymarine 435 ) talk to my autohelm (st 6000 ) its wired up right,(not like me) i press the auto course button (or what ever it is} and after a minute or so it alarms and tells me NO DATA, The auto works ok if you just press the button to stay on course TIZ confused I.
 
I have the same sort of problem - Lowrance chartplotter and raymarine st 4000. The agents for Lowrance have tested my c/p and get no output on the NMEA link, but tell me it will be OK if I enable the 'go to' function on my c/p. I am still unable to get it to work : (

It is time that the marine electronics industry had a universal standard and that it worked.
 
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It is time that the marine electronics industry had a universal standard and that it worked.

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It's not in the interest of the marine industry to do this.

If you fit out a boat from scratch you will most likely get all your kit from one manufacturer to ensure compatability.
If you get a used boat with some kit already on it, you will most likely buy kit from that manufacturer for the same reason.

Raymarine, in particular, plays that game. (SeaTalk - what's wrong with just NMEA?)
 
Does the autohelm use NMEA 0183 data format. Raymarine use this along side sea-talk to allow operation with another manufacturers equipment although you have to purchase a SeaTalk NMEA PC interface to intergrate the systems
 
Is there anything else taking the NMEA data from the cp?
As far as I have been told NMEA 0183 on its own will only speak to one device at a time.
 
If its anything like my Lowrance - you have to go into Menu and tell it to send ... once you've got NMEA tto transmit - then it remembers even when switched off ...

Most plotters that you have to do this with - are default NMEA off.
 
On the ST 2000 there is a sequence of buttons that you have to press before it will react to the chartplotter. You then do a goto on the chartplotter and off it goes. I do not know if the 6000 is the same.
 
Using a Navman plotter and Raymarine 4000 Wheelpilot I found a similar problem, and eventually the reason.
If I set the plotter to "Go To Cursor" which is the simplest way to set it then the Wheelpilot would not Track but if I input a waypoint and tell the plotter to go to that waypoint then the wheelpilot will track to that waypoint,
 
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