raymarine dst800 triducer

[Sammy Lou]

Hi all.

Another of the upgrades for the boat this winter is to replace the non functioning nasa depth and speed instruments. I've decided, for integration, to go with Raymarine and have bought a dst800 triducer.
I have a raymarine C90W at the helm and want the depth/speed to show on the plotter & I also want an instrument showing depth/speed at the inner helm position.
The problem that I have is - what instrument to hook it up to? Reading Raymarine web info it said that the triducer needs the i70 for calibration but the guy at the chandlers has convinced otherwise and sold me a i50 tridata. Now that I have all the kit and I'm about to start the work I'm not sure that it is going to work as required with the i50. I don't particularly need all the bells and whistles but I do want, via a seatalk ng network, to have depth/speed at both helms and to be able to calibrate keel offsets and alarms. Does anyone have any experience about this they could share?


Thanks

 

[ianj99]

Hi all.

Another of the upgrades for the boat this winter is to replace the non functioning nasa depth and speed instruments. I've decided, for integration, to go with Raymarine and have bought a dst800 triducer.
I have a raymarine C90W at the helm and want the depth/speed to show on the plotter & I also want an instrument showing depth/speed at the inner helm position.
The problem that I have is - what instrument to hook it up to? Reading Raymarine web info it said that the triducer needs the i70 for calibration but the guy at the chandlers has convinced otherwise and sold me a i50 tridata. Now that I have all the kit and I'm about to start the work I'm not sure that it is going to work as required with the i50. I don't particularly need all the bells and whistles but I do want, via a seatalk ng network, to have depth/speed at both helms and to be able to calibrate keel offsets and alarms. Does anyone have any experience about this they could share?


Thanks

Provided the i50 is set as a master in a multi instrument setup, you can change the depth offset and alarms.
Ian

 

[mersey]

Yes the DST800 is really by Airmar and sold by all the big manufacturers. Nearly any NMEA 2000 device capable of displaying it's data will be able to calibrate.

You're calibrating the display, not the device itself.

 

[ianj99]

Yes the DST800 is really by Airmar and sold by all the big manufacturers. Nearly any NMEA 2000 device capable of displaying it's data will be able to calibrate.

You're calibrating the display, not the device itself.

Just to clarify: The Triducer needs to be the analogue type (not the NMEA2000 type) which connects to the spade terminals on the i50. This is then used to enter the keel offsets and alarms into its setup. It then transmits the corrected depth data etc on the Sealtalk ng bus to the other instruments.

So connect the triducer to the I50, then connect this to your STNG bus.

 

[Sammy Lou]

To follow up on the thread I've now changed the i50 for a i70. This is so that I get the full functionality and also it will be matched to the digital smart triducer.
Thanks Ian & Mersey.