ST70 Battery Monitor

[Captain Sparrowlegs]

Whilst scrolling lazily through all the various options on my Raymarine ST70 repeater unit on a wet and cold day I happened across the battery monitor options and thought "ah what do I need to get this to work?"

Despite trawling the WWW and getting loads of advice on fitting battery monitors and various other gauges I have been unable to get anywhere with what i need to get this option working on my sailing boat. I assume the options are only really used when this unit is fitted to a motor cruiser.

I tried asking at the Raymarine stand at the boat show but honestly think the muppet I spoke to thought I was speaking Greek for all he understood. I have asked Raymarine through their website but was wondering if any one here had managed to get this to work and how they did it.

Cheers

 

[nigelmercier]

Raymarine ST70 repeater unit...

Raymarine do an ST70 repeater unit?

 

[Captain Sparrowlegs]

Nigel,

It may not be called a repeater but I have 2 ST70 multiple display units on board, one in the cockpit and one at the navigation table. The Navigation one is what I consider to be the repeat of the helm/cockpit station.

It was installed as part of the whole Raymarine electronics package with the boat and displays all the same information as the cockpit station but I have set it up to display different screens to those outside which generally just has all the main sailing information (wind direction/speed, water depth, SOG, Boat Speed). It is on this inside repeat screen that I want to set up the battery information.

I'm sure there must be some way to do it otherwise why would the options be available?

 

[pvb]

I'm sure there must be some way to do it otherwise why would the options be available?

According to the Raymarine website, engine data has to be input as NMEA2000.

 

[wetstuff]

Hi There,

You need a NMEA 2000 battery monitor to enable the ST70 to get the data via a Seatalk NG to Devicenet adapter.

It's probably cheaper to just go for a NASA BM-1 Compact battery monitor at around £110. Looks neat and does the job, but is stand alone

Hope that helps.

John

 

[nigelmercier]

It may not be called a repeater but I have 2 ST70 multiple display units...

So this one? As the others have said, it doesn't have a battery monitor, it can just display the relevant data.