Raymarine E120 Classic Chart Plotter

Jurgen

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Hi All,

I have the above plotter which lost GPS signal recently.

I spoke to a local electronics engineer who informed me that the GPS receiver that I have is no longer available which seems to be the case.

He said that I would need a newer model but it would not be backwards compatible with NMEA 0183 as it works on NMEA 2000.

This would mean that I needed a Data Backbone/Hub to convert back to NMEA 0183.

Does anyone know if this is the case.

Any help or advice would be more than welcome.

Many thanks

Andy
 
Not quite sure what you're saying - it sounds like the plotter needs 0183, and someone has told you you won't be able to buy a receiver that outputs this? If so, that's complete and utter rubbish. Lots of NMEA0183 GPSes out there.

Pete
 
prv said:
Not quite sure what you're saying - it sounds like the plotter needs 0183, and someone has told you you won't be able to buy a receiver that outputs this? If so, that's complete and utter rubbish. Lots of NMEA0183 GPSes out there.

Pete
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Hi Pete,

The engineer said that the old GPS receiver is no longer available and the new 1 works on NMEA 2000 which is not compatible with my plotter, was not sure if this was the case or not?

Very confused as electronics might as well be Dutch to me lol
 
Jurgen said:
Hi Pete,

The engineer said that the old GPS receiver is no longer available and the new 1 works on NMEA 2000 which is not compatible with my plotter, was not sure if this was the case or not?

Very confused as electronics might as well be Dutch to me lol
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sounds utter rubbish as said. I have a Raymarine GPS125 connected to my C70 and that works fine. they're shown as 'retired' on the Raymarine site but there's tons of the things, new and used, on Ebay.
 
It doesn't have to be raymarine. The nmea0183 sentences for position, SOG, COG etc are all standardised so you can buy another brand of nmea0183 gps mushroom and it will talk to the nmea0183-in port of your e120 perfectly well. Not the seatalk port, but the plottter will then repeat the gps info via seatalk so all is well with other seatalk-reliant devices
 
jfm said:
It doesn't have to be raymarine. The nmea0183 sentences for position, SOG, COG etc are all standardised so you can buy another brand of nmea0183 gps mushroom and it will talk to the nmea0183-in port of your e120 perfectly well. Not the seatalk port, but the plottter will then repeat the gps info via seatalk so all is well with other seatalk-reliant devices
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That sounds a bit more promising, he was talking £300 is for parts and labour on top
 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Marine-GP...4?pt=UK_In_Car_Technology&hash=item19d8aea130

is £90.

Seatalk is only 3 wires so testing it will not take long, then as long as all OK you can fit it properly.

The only thing to bear in mind is that a new NMEA one is similar in price ( there is one on ebay with a cable for £29) and if you replace other bits you will probably end up getting an NMEA backbone anyway. I have just replaced all my depth and speed stuff for example and that is all Garmin NMEA stuff AND it comes with the basic backbone kit. The kits can be bought separately for about £80
 
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Jurgen said:
That sounds a bit more promising, he was talking £300 is for parts and labour on top
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My DSC radio gets its position from a no-brand NMEA0183 "puck" intended for cars and costing all of about £18. (To be fair, I did have to add on a little 12v to 5v converter for another couple of quid.)

This stuff is completely standard and commoditised, there's no need to buy raymarine.

Pete
 
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