DSC-GPS

[paddywackcocker]

Can anyone help, have recently bought a s10 dsc radio for the boat and want to link in to gps. It says to join the red nmea wire to the positive on the gps
and the black to the negative, seems straight forward but have not tried this, as far as I can tell this would result in straight vaultage going down the nmea link.
Am I right in thinking that it should read the red goes to nmea in from gps and black goes to out (the red and black wires from the radio are not the main pos/neg)

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[snowleopard]

disclaimer: check details with your manuals before connecting, don't blame me if you blow up one or both bits of kit!!

the DSC will receive position signals output by the GPS so the DSC wires connect to the NMEA OUT from the GPS, + to + and - to -. you should most certainly not connect the main power feed to the NMEA port of either set.

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[paddywackcocker]

The way I see it is that the red from the radio is the + but witch colour on the GPS is nmea + yellow or orangeand does that nean the remaining wire (wich will be eather nmea in or out) connects to the black nmea lead from set.
The manual says connect as discribed in the first post hence the questions

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[AIDY]

As with snowleopard the usual health warnings.

As long as you are using the correct NMEA wires from the GPS / VHF there is no harm in connecting them both ways. You are only looking for a signal, not a voltage. Only one way will produce a signal and a LAT/LONG readout !

If you do a search on NMEA there is lots of usful NMEA info, being posted in the past.

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[paddywackcocker]

thanks will give it a go


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