raymarine e90w wont send GPS to ray 55 vhf

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Hi,
I am unable to get a GPS signal from my Raymarine E90W to talk to my Ray 55 VHF.
I connect the VHF purple to MFD brown and VHF grey to MFD yellow.
MFD Software version is 2.49.
I have tried using both seatalk and nmea in the integration section.
I have baud rate at 4800.
I have tried a completely different cable to eliminate possible cable damage.
The vhf indicates no GPS each time.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
 
Have you checked in the System Integration menu whether the settings for Port 1 have the GPS sentence(s) enabled?

The choice of SeaTalk or NMEA in the System Integration menu is surely for the GPS antenna only?
 
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Thanks for the reply Pvb.
Im not sure i understand
The settings for port 1 give me options for NMEA 4800, navtex 4800, and navtex 9600. I have selected nmea 4800.
The NMEA outputs for port 1 gives a long list of three letter codes all of which are ON.

The preferred gps source is Seatalk ng/nmea2000. changing this to seatalk1 or nmea0183 didnt help.




pvb said:
Have you checked in the System Integration menu whether the settings for Port 1 have the GPS sentence(s) enabled?

The choice of SeaTalk or NMEA in the System Integration menu is surely for the GPS antenna only?
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OK, Port 1 output in NMEA4800 is correct. The list of 3 letter codes are the NMEA sentences it will transmit, so if they're all on that's fine.

Where does the plotter's GPS receiver connect to?
 
Difficult to tell but i think its to a seatalk stng converter.
My system includes a smart pilot x30. ST70s, radar and an ais 650 which has its own direct gps antenna.
There is a seatalk high speed network unit too.
 

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OK, I give up. Maybe get a marine electronics guy with Raymarine knowledge to configure it for you. (Of course, it's always possible there's a fault in one piece of equipment).
 
Difficult to test but maybe it is faulty?
My Raymarine used to output positions to the VHF but stopped at one stage last year. All attempts to solve it failed and I confirmed it was sending gobblydegook. Raymarine quoted ~£700 to fix it by replacing a board. I bought a small converter to translate the high speed data on another output to 4800 for the VHF for ~£100.
 
Many thanks for the help Pvb

I just put an LED across the connection close to the vhf and its blinking steadily so i guess its pointing to a fault in the vhf set.
 
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