Raymarine HD digital radar to E120 display

[Minchsailor]

My analogue scanner has been consigned to the deep - uneconomical to repair. I have screwed Raymarine to give me a very good price on a new digital scanner, but before committing myself I want to make sure it will work; Raymarine seem confident it will, but I welcome the opinion of forumites who may have done this.

Obviously new cable needed up the mast and back to the chart table - a bit of a problem but not, I hope, a major one.

Software upgrade - should be OK but one never knows.

Anything else?

 

[aluijten]

Don't think so, I have this combination working for a few years now. Works pretty well. You do need a cross-over coupler to connect the Ethernet (=Seatalk HS) from the radar to the Ethernet of the plotter. Or you can use a Ethernet switch as well

 

[Ric]

The radar cable can be very difficult to get down the mast and through cabin conduits due to the RJ45 plug at the end. Also, it comes only in set lengths (5m, 10m, 20m) so you can end up with a large amount of slack that you have to hide somewhere in the headlining.

Raymarine rather unhelpfully tell you that the cable warranty will be void if you cut it - but really this is the best way to install. Make the join at the base of the mast, so you can easily disconnect if you need to dismast. Either crimp on new good quality RJ45 connectors, or solder. The cable is just an ethernet cable bundled with a power cable, and If you do some googling, you can even find out the colour codes that Raymarine use and so make the splice without the need for their expensive "crossover" connector.

 

[Minchsailor]

The radar cable can be very difficult to get down the mast and through cabin conduits due to the RJ45 plug at the end. Also, it comes only in set lengths (5m, 10m, 20m) so you can end up with a large amount of slack that you have to hide somewhere in the headlining.

Raymarine rather unhelpfully tell you that the cable warranty will be void if you cut it - but really this is the best way to install. Make the join at the base of the mast, so you can easily disconnect if you need to dismast. Either crimp on new good quality RJ45 connectors, or solder. The cable is just an ethernet cable bundled with a power cable, and If you do some googling, you can even find out the colour codes that Raymarine use and so make the splice without the need for their expensive "crossover" connector.

I had already worked out that I would probably have to cut the connector off the cable to feed it down the mast - I have the mast out at the moment so (crossed fingers) that should not too difficult.

I am getting the scanner with a 10m cable, then using standard RJ45 cable through the boat which should be fairly simple to install. RJ45 connectors are a bit fiddly to crimp on, but not impossible.