Should I be able to make Raymarine talk to Furuno

[SteveB_Sigma33]

I have managed to get my Furuno GPS to talk to my Pathfinder SL72 and 520 Chart plotter but can't seem to make them pass waypoints back. Is this something I should be able to get working or should I just be content the GPS passes on lat and long?

Also anyone know what I need to interface in a compass heading to any of this kit?

Still believe in a chart and paper but this should make life easier for SWMBO, plus would love to get MARPA working.

 

[boatmike]

Isn't it interesting that a very high percentage of all questions relating to interfacing is related to Raymarine? I think the answer is to get NMEA out of Raymarine you need to convert Raybabble to NMEA by buying yet another box of electricery from RM although some of their kit accepts NMEA in. Others will confirm. However be careful of MARPA. If you have a Raymarine Fluxgate you need yet ANOTHER electricery box from RM to stabilise the output and give you 10Hz output. They call this a "Gyro" unit but it isn't. Proper gyro-compasses are mega bucks. Its a rate stabilised output unit. You won't be surprised to know that this will cost you yet another £500. There is good news though if you have a good autopilot (even one of the more expensive RM ones) in that you should be able to get a 10Hz output from that instead. Don't waste your time if you have one of the cheaper wheel or tiller pilots though. They won't do the same job. MARPA will work to an extent without such an input but will give you bad if not dangerous resolutions and will "lose" targets at regular intervals making it worse than useless.

 

[Koeketiene]

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Isn't it interesting that a very high percentage of all questions relating to interfacing is related to Raymarine?

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And Raymarine does this on purpose, in an attempt to get you to buy only Raymarine kit. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

Raymarine = spawn of the devil.
The electronics version of Rupert Murdoch

 

[earlybird]

I have been told by Furuno that their GPS needs a particular construction of the NMEA WPL sentence to enable it to recognise the talker, so a Raymarine converter might be insufficient. I input waypoints to mine either with a Yeoman plotter or a PC running Ozi-explorer plotting software with a third party Furuno conversion programme.

 

[jimg]

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And Raymarine does this on purpose, in an attempt to get you to buy only Raymarine kit.

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Well what are Furuno doing then! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Refueler]

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And Raymarine does this on purpose, in an attempt to get you to buy only Raymarine kit.

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Well what are Furuno doing then! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Furono like most others are following the NMEA 0183 route, with some offereing NMEA 2000 as well. Raymarine though would like you to invest in all Raymarine gear and only network via their Proprietary Seatalk bus. Raymarine say they are fully NMEA 0183 compatible. But as can be seen by various experiences this may not be the case.

 

[Koeketiene]

My Furuno plotter/radar works with my Icom DSC VHF, our Cetrek autopilot and NASA GPS repeater.
Seamlessly.

 

[Refueler]

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My Furuno plotter/radar works with my Icom DSC VHF, our Cetrek autopilot and NASA GPS repeater.
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No doubt all on that common all singing NMEA 0183 format ...

Not only that - but PC's via plotting programs understand NMEA 0183 as well. Funny that ..... as I recall Seatalk on a PC is pretty rare ?

 

[Oceanmaster]

This might be your answer. I know older raymarine kit recognise only a four digit waypoint names and other kit produces 6 digit waypoint names. So when you name your waypoint use only four digits. I think you should leave the first two digit blank. I had this with MLR kit. try it and see.