Upgrading my electronics on a budget

[steveeasy]

Hi,
Ive hit a bit of a wall on this front. Over the last 3 to 4 years ive upgraded all areas of my boat including new sails, canvas, standing rigging and pretty much everything except the electronics. Ive had a vulcan 7 fitted stand alone for 3 years. and installed a vesper 8000 AIS. Id like to utilize the Raymarine wind transducer on the top of my mast and tried to fit a Autohelm wind last year to it. it seams this could not be done.
I plan to fit a Nmea 2000 backbone this year to link the vulcan and vesper together. is there an easy and relatively cheap way to get wind added to what I already have. I am not keen on spending large amounts on electronics.
Any advice appreciated.
Steveeasy

 

[LoneHort]

Would the addition of a Raymarine ICT-5 converter and from there to your NMEA 2000 with a setalkng-nmea2000 converter cable sort you out? Should do on paper....

 

[steveeasy]

Hi Lonehort,
Thanks for that, ive had a quick glance and the ICT 5 may link my wind transducer and indeed my depth transducer with a couple of displays. I was intending to fit a backbone this year. ill have to read up a bit more but thanks for the advice.

Steveeasy

 

[misterjenkins]

We use a Raymarine ST-1 and an ng- nmea2000 cable to connect our old Raymarine instruments to a Vulcan via a nmea backbone. Works perfectly

 

[Rafiki]

If you have a Raymarine wind transducer buy a Raymarine ST60 or ST60+ wind instrument 2nd hand. Plenty on ebay, shouldn't cost more than £120. All six of my ST60's were bought 2nd hand about 5 years ago, all work perfectly.

 

[steveeasy]

Ok been told I can use i50 and i60 displays for depth and wind. Both will use my existing transducers.
A sea talking backbone can connect to them and this will then appear on chart plotter.
I suspect it’s only new i50 and i60 with no. Or can I use older i60 displays and sea talking backbone.

‘Steveeasy

 

[jwfrary]

St60 are seatalk 1. Not directly connectable to seatalk NG but via a box of tricks it is. It's a raymarine part. Know as a seatalk converter

 

[Boathook]

St60 are seatalk 1. Not directly connectable to seatalk NG but via a box of tricks it is. It's a raymarine part. Know as a seatalk converter

My ST50 and 60 instruments are fed by the seatalk ng system just plugs in the back. The instruments can have input straight from the transducers if required. My transducers all go in via an iTC-5 and fed into the system.

 

[jwfrary]

My ST50 and 60 instruments are fed by the seatalk ng system just plugs in the back. The instruments can have input straight from the transducers if required. My transducers all go in via an iTC-5 and fed into the system.

They would be i50 or i60 if they plug straight into seatalk NG. The itc5 is supposed to be used with a i70 or i70s system, where the displays are digital. The i50 and i60 can take analogue transducers straight into them though they take the power from the N2k/seatalk NG backbone.

ST products are generally seatalk 1 there were ST60, ST60+, ST40, ST50 (old auto helm instruments) and so other rarer ones like max views. Only exception is St70 and st70+ which is NG but an early implementation and doesn't have all the features especially source selection so can be a bit of a pain.

 

[steveeasy]

Well id be happy with ST 60 wind display and st60 depth display. a seatalk 1 converter is I believe a backbone and would supply 12v supply. But is seatalk 1 compatable with NMea 2000, would this allow for the Vulcan and the Vesper to connect. As with all things it might just be easier to buy everything new but I dont want to do that. Not for what I do.
Steveeasy

 

[jwfrary]

Here's the link to the st60 so we are talking about the right think. These would be a second hand buy now but good kit.

Raymarine ST60+ Instrument Displays

You then need these parts

Raymarine Seatalk 1 to Seatalk NG Adapter Kit (E22158)

And

https://www.cactusnav.com/raymarine...RL5_DzO3KM0tM6sDWRuFipw3FZtbiJ0MaAgBLEALw_wcB

And your away it will talk to the vulcan but you won't be able to calibrate the instrument from your mfd but you will on the instruments themselves.

 

[steveeasy]

Here's the link to the st60 so we are talking about the right think. These would be a second hand buy now but good kit.

Raymarine ST60+ Instrument Displays

You then need these parts

Raymarine Seatalk 1 to Seatalk NG Adapter Kit (E22158)

And

Raymarine Devicenet Female to STNG Cable 120mm (A06079)

And your away it will talk to the vulcan but you won't be able to calibrate the instrument from your mfd but you will on the instruments themselves.

Yep. Got it. that sounds just the ticket without big expense.

Thanks for the advice from everyone.
Steveeasy