Connecting Yeoman Plotter to Garmin 12

[Petronella]

I've just purchased a nice secondhand Yeoman Sport plotter on eBay. It has come with a short power/data cable. I want to connect it to my old Garmin 12 GPS. I know I have to connect the data in and out wires between the two but is power to the Yeoman (12v) provided from the GPS (6v-8v) or from the boat battery via, say, a cigarette lighter socket?

 

[Loginname]

From the boat battery.
On mine the boat battery lead also sends power to the GPS.

If you haven't found it already this may help
http://www.yeomanuk.co.uk/home/index2.htm

and click on "technical data sheets"

 

[MoodySabre]

The Sport can be run off a rechargeable battery so that you can have it in the cockpit but I assume that you have yours on the nav table.

I bought a secondhand Nav Pro a few weeks ago. The power is a feed from the battery, on mine via the Nav Instruments switch on the panel and with an inline fuse (as recommended). I don't want mine there all the time - it takes up a lot of room when just pottering locally so I have connected the GPS and power leads to a four-pin socket on the panel and put a plug on the Yeoman lead so I can just unplug it and put it back in the box when not in use.

Excellent piece of kit. So simple to use and yet so effective!

 

[Heigaro]

I have this set-up, Yeoman Sport with Garmin 12XL. Power to the Yeoman from 12v supply - mine has a dedicated lead from the upper socket to a fag-lighter plug. The power to the GPS 12 comes from the Yeoman Sport lower socket together with the NMEA connections.

PM me if you need more details about precise connections. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Colin.

 

[Marsupial]

Talk to Precision Navigation, they have ready made up leads for this.

 

[Gin]

I have the same set up as you intend .

It started out as a cigarette lighter socket power cable ending in the Garmin special plug that fits the 12. Part way along that cable there is a spur which carried an RS232 plug for my laptop.

When I bought the Yeoman Sport XL, I took the above-mentioned cable (which by the way was a Garmin supplied item)to a local electronics firm and they adapted it by replacing the RS232 socket with the Yeoman data/power plug.

This then gave me GPS and Yeoman power from the boat's battery and data from GPS to Yeoman and it works fine.

An additional modification was considered desirable by the electronics chap as the Yeoman only draws 250ma and he was concerned about a power surge.

The lighter socket has a 500ma surge protection fuse and has in line a small black box which not only carries the sockets to receive the lighter power 'in', the GPSdata 'in/out' socket and the Yeoman power 'in' but also a capacitor(s) to regulate the 12v supply as further protection

 

[Petronella]

That sounds exactly what I need. So does the RS232 part of the magic Garmin lead (010-10164-00?) now carry the power as well as the data from the Garmin to the Yeoman plotter? That is - power from cigarette lighter to Garmin, power and data from Garmin to Yeoman via old RS232 lead now with Yeoman power/data plug replacing the RS232 plug.

 

[Marsupial]

coo! so complicated, and all I do is plug a ciggy lighter plug thingy from the sport into the boat 12v, and plug the garmin into the sport with the lead from yeoman and off I go, the garmin and the sport are powered by the boat - didnt need an electronics shop or an RS232 to be adapted and whats an external power surge device (what ever that is) going to do as there is an internal fuse? dont think that bit is required at all. I carry a jump start battery that powers the thing for a few days in case the batteries on the boat take an early bath. Its neat and it works.