Simrad or Furuno??

[rickp]

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Seatalk has one huge advantage over NMEA, you can plug a Seatalk cable anywhere into the system without needing a specific input or output or a multiplexer. Seatalk manages to organise data stream timing without having to use a separate multiplexer to "join" one data stream to another, a very clever feature and a good resaon to use Raymarine on a complex system.

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I think the same thing applies to the other bus systems, such as SIMnet or NMEA-2000 too. Its not just seatalk that can do that.

Rick

 

[Sans Bateau]

I have NMEA 2000 on my Lowrance, but who else uses it in a system yet?

Would I be right in saying that Seatalk was the first of these systems?

 

[tome]

No, Seatalk is a very simple binary protocol working at 4800 bps whereas NMEA 2000 is a much more comprehensive CAN-bus system capable of 250,000 bps