Raymarine st 6000 and nmea 0183

[alisdair4]

A question in the vein of the "is this possible", if I might? I have a Raymarine St 6000 with i40 speed/depth and i40 Wind instruments connected via Seatalk (old). The Plotter, a Garmin GPS Map 5000 outputs GPS info satisfactorily via one of the NMEA ports to a DSC radio, to the radar and to the Raymarine system. In the last case, the NMEA feeds directly into the back of the Raymarine control head. The AIs (NASA) feeds in to the plotter using the second NMEA port. So far so good -all instruments on speaking terms.

The exam question is: should I expect to see anything from the NMEA out from the Raymarine system? For example, the plotter has the capability to display wind, or depth information if it can be got into it somehow. There is a NMEA out in the control computer part of the autopilot - but I don't know if the autopilot is clever enough to convert the wind and depth info from the I40 instruments to usable NMEA sentences. It would be very reassuring to know that this isn't possible, before I spend effort trying to! At the moment, the feed fro the NMEA out produces nothing in the plotter.

Not a "mission-critical" issue, but of interest!

 

[pvb]

If you have a 100/300 course computer, it won't transmit any depth or wind info via its NMEA output.

If you want this info on your plotter, you'll need to get a SeaTalk to NMEA interface and get the data from the SeaTalk bus.

 

[earlybird]

A quick look at my ST4000+ manual says that the instrument will transmit a range of NMEA data onto the Seatalk bus, but transmitting Seatalk to other NMEA instruments requires the E85001 interface.
Perhaps the ST6000 is similar.

 

[richardbrennan]

I am not sure if this helps, but I also have a Garmin 5000 plotter, St60+ instruments, and a ST4000 tiller pilot. It's a long time ago since we fitted it all and I know we have an interface, possibly an E85001, but we do get wind, depth and water speed on the plotter, and also bearing, cross track error and distance to waypoint on the ST4000 control head, so I would say it is possible.

 

[pandroid]

If you have a 100/300 course computer, it won't transmit any depth or wind info via its NMEA output.

If you want this info on your plotter, you'll need to get a SeaTalk to NMEA interface and get the data from the SeaTalk bus.

+1

 

[alisdair4]

I am not sure if this helps, but I also have a Garmin 5000 plotter, St60+ instruments, and a ST4000 tiller pilot. It's a long time ago since we fitted it all and I know we have an interface, possibly an E85001, but we do get wind, depth and water speed on the plotter, and also bearing, cross track error and distance to waypoint on the ST4000 control head, so I would say it is possible.

Thanks Richard.

We get XTE, BTW COG and SOG on the control head - but none of the other stuff. Sounds like I need an interface!