Raymarine ST2000 - Seatalk or NMEA

[MattS]

Does anyone here have experience of connecting their Raymarine ST2000+ tiller pilot up to their instruments via the data connection?

And if so, is there an advantage to using Seatalk1 over NMEA0183? I’m trying to work out the best way of wiring it into my setup which is all NMEA0183 based currently.

 

[hpeer]

I did it, ST 2000 on SeaTalk, some years ago but disconnected it. I have a steel boat so the heading comes from the compass which was all frigged up.
I don’t know if you can use 0183, it is similar to SeaTalk but I don’t know if enough similar.

I do have a Yacht Devices converter box. They have many varieties. Mine will bridge 2 each 0183 lines, a Seatalk line, a NEMA 2000 line and provide a WIFI hotspot.

Frankly I would not ingest in anything for a ST 2000 having had bad luck with them. But if you want to use it then a bridge may be your best option PROVIDED it won’t work off 0183 directly.

 

[zulloboy]

Does anyone here have experience of connecting their Raymarine ST2000+ tiller pilot up to their instruments via the data connection?

And if so, is there an advantage to using Seatalk1 over NMEA0183? I’m trying to work out the best way of wiring it into my setup which is all NMEA0183 based currently.

I have mine connected to NMEA0183 and it works as it is supposed to in steering to a waypoint. Given the slow nature of the process, I can't see how there would be much if any difference to using SeaTalk. I don't have wind instruments so I'll leave others to comment on any difference there, perhaps any difference in speed of response is more of a factor, although I doubt it.

In practice I find it not much use. If I am steering to a waypoint and making leeway, all it does is gradually point me higher into the wind. Much better to manually set a course 5 or 10 degrees higher than the waypoint, thereby keeping a fairly constant angle to the wind.

Cheers, Graeme

 

[neilf39]

Connected mine by nmea0183. I use it in wind mode quite a bit. I had to use a 2000 to 183 converter as my garmin plotter did not create the 183 sentence from the 2000 data. I was using it as a bridge as the wind Instrument is 2000 based. So worth checking what you have produces what the st2000 uses if using nmea.

 

[MattS]

Thanks all - useful to hear about your experiences. My wind instrument outputs straight into NMEA018 so it sounds like my best bet is probably to just use an NMEA0183 to the ST2000. I'd like to try it in wind mode - will give it a go!