Connecting Stowe Dataline tranducers to Raymarine displays

[Erwin Swart]

Do have the old Stowe Dataline X instruments which work well though displays seems had the best time.
Would like to know if new Raymarine displays will fit to the current transducers/through hulls.

Ideally would like to keep the original through hulls.
As the Stowe Dataline X works with NMEA 0183 I would assume to connect them to NMEA 2000 converter should work.

Any experience?

 

[neilf39]

I would doubt it. The transducers are not 0183 and the depth uses a different frequency to other manufacturers. I don't think even linking off the data box would work as it may use 0183 but if it can support 15 stowe displays doesn't sound like it is a standard rs232/234 output. I had old stowe stuff and replaced the lot including transducers. Given the age it may be worth renewing the transducers anyway if you are going to have new displays and have it all 2000

 

[robbieg]

Do have the old Stowe Dataline X instruments which work well though displays seems had the best time.
Would like to know if new Raymarine displays will fit to the current transducers/through hulls.

Ideally would like to keep the original through hulls.
As the Stowe Dataline X works with NMEA 0183 I would assume to connect them to NMEA 2000 converter should work.

Any experience?

You will need the Stowe dateline to NMEA 0183 convertor (see Tinley electronics site) and then a Raymarine NMEA 0183 to Seatalk NG converter.Probably circa £400 cost of this kit to do what you want.

 

[rogerthebodger]

Do have the old Stowe Dataline X instruments which work well though displays seems had the best time.
Would like to know if new Raymarine displays will fit to the current transducers/through hulls.

Ideally would like to keep the original through hulls.
As the Stowe Dataline X works with NMEA 0183 I would assume to connect them to NMEA 2000 converter should work.

Any experience?

Stowe Dataline X are not NMEA its the databox that converts the transducer signal to NMEA.

I have a Stowe Dataline X databox that I have used with raymarine transducers with a modification of the temperature signat

You need to investigate how the raymarine transducers connect to the raymarine instruments and what converts the analogue transducer signals to what the instruments need.

 

[earlybird]

The OP's Dataline box will be outputting NMEA183 data on 2 of it's 5 connecting wires. I don't see why it shouldn't drive suitable NMEA displays as per the OP's suggestion. That assumes the necessary sentences are available from the Databox,, which in turn depends on which transducers are connected.

 

[rogerthebodger]

The OP's Dataline box will be outputting NMEA183 data on 2 of it's 5 connecting wires. I don't see why it shouldn't drive suitable NMEA displays as per the OP's suggestion. That assumes the necessary sentences are available from the Databox,, which in turn depends on which transducers are connected.

My databox sends the NMEA data to my boat PC via RS232 to USB and displays the data using NavMonPC with OpenCPN displaying plotted charts at the same time

OpenCPN can also display the NMEA data but I like NavMonPC better.

 

[robbieg]

Not an expert but you can probably get the wind data but I understand depth (an possibly speed) are not standard NMEA sentences. So even it you can identify the relevant wires you may struggle to get much more than wind data from the Stowe datebook without a convertor.

 

[vsb]

I have dataline instruments and a ray marine autopilot. This gadget links the 2 systems flawlessly and I can see all the data line info on the raymarine display.

Do have the old Stowe Dataline X instruments which work well though displays seems had the best time.
Would like to know if new Raymarine displays will fit to the current transducers/through hulls.

Ideally would like to keep the original through hulls.
As the Stowe Dataline X works with NMEA 0183 I would assume to connect them to NMEA 2000 converter should work.

Any experience?

 

[gava]

has anyone solved this?

 

[John A]

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I have dataline instruments and a ray marine autopilot. This gadget links the 2 systems flawlessly and I can see all the data line info on the raymarine display.

I have a similar problem as to how to connect my Stowe instruments to my Nmea2000 network so my plotter and and autohelm can use the info. How did you wire the Actisense to the Stowe data box?

 

[[70521]]

I had Stowe kit on the boat that was at the end of its useful life and falling apart. Took the decision to replace it with Garmin ( other manufacturers are available) as I wanted to know it would not fail at any moment. I am a great believer in using kit from one provide as if there is a problem it is either you have fitted it incorrectly, almost impossible to do, or they have a problem and need to fix it. Garmin sorted out a firmware upgrade for my ancient chartplotter and all the new kit, including radar, just talks to it.

 

[IvoH]

I'm trying to connect my Stowe Dataline X instruments to a RPI (or PC) using a usb to RS485/422 Converter. But i do get any data in OpenCPN.
I've connectd the white and green connections to the TX+ and TX- and added a serial connection (baudrate 4800 (also tried 38400)).

Do I do something wrong here?