Laundryman
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I have a Raymarine 435i and also an Imray Chartplotter on my laptop. Can someone please tell me how i can feed gps info from my Raymarine to the laptop. Thank you
Raymarine RC435i to Laptop
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Refueler
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Doesn't the manual for the RC435 give any NMEA indication of wiring up ?
What about checking out many of the third party GPS accessory suppliers for cables.
The dealer where you bought the GPS from probably has a data lead to fit ...
What about checking out many of the third party GPS accessory suppliers for cables.
The dealer where you bought the GPS from probably has a data lead to fit ...
alan
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The 435 has an NMEA 0183 output connector on the rear of the unit. You need to take this and feed it into the serial port on your PC. If your PC does not have a serial port (not all newer ones have serial ports), then you will need to use a serial to USB converter and then set up the "virtual" serial port for the correct data rate e.t.c. (4800 baud IIRC, 8 bits, 1 stop bit, no parity check). I have no idea what you will need to set in the Imray software though.
I have my 435 in the garage so I can easily check which pins you will need to use on the connector and if you tell me what sort of serial connector you have on your PC (9 pins, 15 pins, 25 pins .....) I can also tell you which pins you will need to connect to on the PC.
When you have connected up, I recommend you use the "Hyperterminal" software on your PC (Start, Software, Accessories, Communications, Hyperterminal) to first check that you are receiving the correct Sentences from the 435, before you start ,fighting, with the Imray software!!
Good luck,
Alan.
I have my 435 in the garage so I can easily check which pins you will need to use on the connector and if you tell me what sort of serial connector you have on your PC (9 pins, 15 pins, 25 pins .....) I can also tell you which pins you will need to connect to on the PC.
When you have connected up, I recommend you use the "Hyperterminal" software on your PC (Start, Software, Accessories, Communications, Hyperterminal) to first check that you are receiving the correct Sentences from the 435, before you start ,fighting, with the Imray software!!
Good luck,
Alan.
jaylo264
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Alan,
or anyone please, I just picked up this thread as I am trying to connect a NASA "Easylog" to my oldish but brilliant Raymarine RC435i plotter; the easylog reads the rmc sentence , which is produced by the rc BUT i am most confused by the wiring.
I did not connect up the plotter on my boat, i believe the previous owner did, and it is now connected similarly in my workshed, with simply a red pos and a black neg to the battery ( via a 1 amp fuse) and all the other wires are cut off before the power/nmea connection inlet at the rear of the plotter-- the only port there .
Nasa instructs me to connect their black wire to neg, their red to pos via fuse, their brown to either nmea reference/neg if marked as such,otherwise to the neg/black; and their ble to nmea pos/output.
There is, however , no blue wire on the plotter.
How can one determine the status of the 5 nmea wire to/from the plotter-- white, green, grey, yellow, brown ?
Many thanks, btw what IS a baud?
Jaylo264
or anyone please, I just picked up this thread as I am trying to connect a NASA "Easylog" to my oldish but brilliant Raymarine RC435i plotter; the easylog reads the rmc sentence , which is produced by the rc BUT i am most confused by the wiring.
I did not connect up the plotter on my boat, i believe the previous owner did, and it is now connected similarly in my workshed, with simply a red pos and a black neg to the battery ( via a 1 amp fuse) and all the other wires are cut off before the power/nmea connection inlet at the rear of the plotter-- the only port there .
Nasa instructs me to connect their black wire to neg, their red to pos via fuse, their brown to either nmea reference/neg if marked as such,otherwise to the neg/black; and their ble to nmea pos/output.
There is, however , no blue wire on the plotter.
How can one determine the status of the 5 nmea wire to/from the plotter-- white, green, grey, yellow, brown ?
Many thanks, btw what IS a baud?
Jaylo264
bobgarrett
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Baud is the speed the data is sent - practically bits per second. So the faster the better but there are standard speeds for NMEA, PCs can manage a wider range of speed but need to be set the same as the other instrument.
Yellow and green are the data wires with yellow generally being the output from the device so you connect one device's yellow to another's green. The brown and green are grounds for the data cables. You can confirm this in the Raymarine manuals which are on their web site.
Yellow and green are the data wires with yellow generally being the output from the device so you connect one device's yellow to another's green. The brown and green are grounds for the data cables. You can confirm this in the Raymarine manuals which are on their web site.
alan
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RC435i to laptop
Jaylo,
I have PM'd you.
For the other OP, this is from the Raymarine Italian agent's website:
Funzione Colore Positivo batteria + (da 10V c.c. a18V c.c.) Rosso
Negativo batteria – Nero
Input NMEA (-) comune- Verde
Non collegato - Grigio
Input NMEA (-) comune - Marrone
Output NMEA (+) - Giallo
Input NMEA (+) - Bianco
Non collegato Calza
So, NMEA output is Yellow (NMEA +) and Brown (NMEA -)
(I think there is a typo in the table above as it shows two Input NMEA -ves).
To most users "baud" is equal to "bits/sec"; not strictly true but good enough for most users.
Alan.
Jaylo,
I have PM'd you.
For the other OP, this is from the Raymarine Italian agent's website:
Funzione Colore Positivo batteria + (da 10V c.c. a18V c.c.) Rosso
Negativo batteria – Nero
Input NMEA (-) comune- Verde
Non collegato - Grigio
Input NMEA (-) comune - Marrone
Output NMEA (+) - Giallo
Input NMEA (+) - Bianco
Non collegato Calza
So, NMEA output is Yellow (NMEA +) and Brown (NMEA -)
(I think there is a typo in the table above as it shows two Input NMEA -ves).
To most users "baud" is equal to "bits/sec"; not strictly true but good enough for most users.
Alan.
