Raymarine Masterview

[MartinGPerry]

Having spent an arm and a leg at Beallieu boat jumble yesterday and what look like some really amazing bargains, I find in one of the boxes of electronics bits I got - there was a Raymarine ST80 Masterview instrument head.

I have no idea of what this is.

Does anyone know if it is compatible with ST60 seatalk and if I plug it into an existing ST60 installation whether it will be of any use as a repeater display?





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[tcm]

The main idea of the boatjumble is a nice day out to buy old junk, keep the box, and then put them back in the next jumble once you have assured yourself it is of no use, and/or knackered. You may already be the third or fourth owner, and, let's face it, if the previous o0r original owner who presumably at least knew what the thing was for has essenetially binned it by putting it in a boat jumble - what chance do you have of making it work when you somehow er bought it without knowing what it is?

Plug it in anyway. BUT note that with a mix of ST60 and 80 your boat is gonna look a bit boat-jumbly. Mind you, with anything from autohelm it is gonna look a bit of a budget job innit? Buy clothes from Primark and wet weather gear from Woollies to complete the picture. The best thing about boat jumbles is that if you put a "Beaulieu Boat Jumble - It's Great!" sticker on your boat then it should pretty much guarantee that burglars give you a wide berth.

Sorry bout this useless and slightly offensive post -i'm in a bad mood this afternoon.

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[qsiv]

NOT comaptible AFAIK - the bus and protocols are entirely different.

In an ST80 system, the transducers are active, and put real 'data' onto the bus, in an ST60 the transducers are 'dumb' and the control head processes the raw info from the transducers, and generates meaningful data.

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[mirabriani]

Re tcm
offensive but very funny. Second thread second laugh.
Briany

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[Sybarite]

No No QSIV, he's talking about using it on a boat, not in a bus.

John

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[Sybarite]

Did you get out of bed to Starboard today?

John

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[Oldhand]

I think you have been unlucky. The ST80 Multi-View does work on a ST60 Seatalk system but I doubt if a Masterview will.

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[Heckler]

my premark jeans are excellent value, do the same job as my levis when i am working on my boat or sailing it, they look better than the pink ones favoured by the affected loud as you like yotties that congregate in the bar and bray at each other.
your not one of them are you?
stu


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[kimhollamby]

I beg to differ with the other posts here but I'm sure the Masterview will work okay -- and if you don't want to try let me have a Beau price for it and I'll consider taking it off your hands (did I really say that?).

ST80 system did use active transducers but the heads are Seatalk instruments at the end of the day and should be able to make use of any Seatalk data on an existing system.

To make the Masterview more useful though did the box include a separate navigation keypad? If you've got one of those then you have a rare beast indeed -- a GPS system on which you can still actually key the waypoints. If it has a second keypad for the autopilot then you are half-way to a full system.

Most people got horribly confuzzled by them but I used an ST80 Masterview all the around Britain and my biggest regret was not taking it (and the hundreds of waypoints on it) with me when the boat was sold.

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[MartinGPerry]

Kim

Thanks, you confirmed my views as I am also expecting it to work. There are two connectors on the back labelled seatalk- it should fit on into my hybrid system consisting of ST5000+ autohelm, ST60 depth & log, ST50 compass, ST50 wind & ST50 close hauled with an ST60 repeater at the chart table

I have also just added a Raymarine nmea/seatalk/rs232 bidirectional interface which I got on eBAY and this merges all my nav and seatalk info into one data stream, including nmea data from gps and waypoints entered from Yeoman plotter - means I can now see most data at any point and at last my ICS Navtex which also doubles up as a NMEA repeater can now display all the information including that coming from seatalk

Sad thing is that I did have a masterview remote which I bought for £5 at the big chandlery auction in Norttingham last year and I sold this on eBAY to someone in the States for £25

I now need another battery to run all this stuff

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