Connecting a GPS repeater display

[Toutvabien]

My darling family have just bought me a very nice Furuno 32 GPS and a NASA Clipper cockpit repeater display as a mark of my passing into real middle age. I spent last night with the instruction/installation manuals for the two trying to work out how to get them to talk to each other. There is a lack of clarity, which may well be as a result of my ignorance, about how to do it. The Clipper suggests plugging the line into a plug from the main unit, but the Furuno does not have an out put plug, instead it has about seven wires, two of which are described as data out, do I just connect one of the data out wires to the similarly coloured data in wire on the repeater, or do I need to fit an appropriate plug onto the set of wires from the Furuno that will mate up with the input plug to the Clipper unit?

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[Bergman]

I connected my NASA thing to a Garmin GPS very easy and a really useful bit of kit

I think it was "data" out of Garmin to "data" or Data in" on NASA.

Plus of course power and earth leads

Can't remember colours and books are on boat.

Going tomorrow and will note it if you want. perhaps a pm with gps info would help if you are interested



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[anabel]

I too have the Furuno GP30 and Nasa clipper repeater. I wrote to Nasa with the same question you have just put. I have the info on board & will collect it tomorrow & post same here. However I do remember the plug is not necessary. Just disconnect & discard it.

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[vyv_cox]

Don't know about the Furuno GPS but the Garmins alaso have about seven wires. Data out is red + and the black -. In Garmin's case the black is common to the negative 12 V supply.

I also don't have a NASA repeater but both my old Stowe Dataline and new B&G simply have red and black data in lines. Just connect to them.

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[anabel]

Here is info I promised last night.
Disconnect RS232 plug from Repeater.
Connect white wire from GPS (data) to blue wire from Repeater.
Connect blue wire from GPS (ground) to black wire (screen) from Repeater.
The red wire in Repeater will go to 12V pos. via 1 Amp fuse.

This means that the GPS black & blue and the Repeater black (screen) are all connected together & go to 12V. neg. The GPS red and the Repeater red are connected together & go to 12 V. pos. The GPS white & blue are connected together.
Enable 0183 V2 in your set up of GPS and 4800 baud.
Good luck.

anabel

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