Raymarine system question

[Juggler7823]

Hi,
I have a Raymarine chartplotter/GPS system which has a RL70C display at the wheel and a RL80(CRC?) at the chart table. Only the RL80 has provision for inserting data and chips.

The question is: Are the displays interchangeable? Can I (easily) swap them so the larger display is located at the wheel?

Thanks for all help

 

[duncan99210]

If you simply have the 2 plotters working as plotters, then you can simply swap them over. However, if the one at the chart table is also acting as the controller for a radar, then you will need to be sure that the RL80 that is outside at the moment is also capable of acting as the radar controller before starting to swap things over. If the RL80 is not able to control the radar, then you'd need to extend the radar control cable to the wheel, which would be difficult and expensive. Hope that helps.

 

[farmer.leo]

Hi,
I have a Raymarine chartplotter/GPS system which has a RL70C display at the wheel and a RL80(CRC?) at the chart table. Only the RL80 has provision for inserting data and chips.

The question is: Are the displays interchangeable? Can I (easily) swap them so the larger display is located at the wheel?

Thanks for all help

Raymarine displays of this generation can network together using two different Raymarine protocols as well as having NMEA in and out.

One of the Raymarine protocols is SeaTalk - and it shares data on it that you would often find on NMEA. But where NMEA is one direction, SeaTalk is two directions and things can be daisy chained.

It sounds like you are more interested in the other protocol, which allows radar data, as well as the GPS map chips (I think they use C-Map charts) to be shared. I think they call it HSB, but it is electrically similar to old coaxial ethernet though they use their own cables. It is a proprietary Raymarine scheme that rides on top of industry standard. This is not the same as the newer Raymarine plotters which use ethernet with waterproof connectors.

If you have compatible displays, either plotter can connect to the radar, either can hold your chip data, and both would have full access and control.
I'm not 100% and whether this works between the RL70 line and the RL80 line. You should open an account (free) at Raymarine dot com and ask them, the techs there are good about responding even if IMHO the corporate suits their implement customer unfriendly policies.

 

[homa]

Ask raymarine

I second that

I have Raymarine and a couple of years ago joined their free online service.
Excellent feedback from the tech guys, they promise to give an answer within a couple of days. They answered a number of questions for me. You may be asked for the serial numbers of the equipment you have and they should be able to answer all your questions.

Their web site is quite useful as they list many of the questions (with answers) that you might already have.

Rgds