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Originally Posted by kenbo
To be clear, are you recommending that the Raymarine converter will work properly if it is connected to the n2k backbone via the Raymarine ng-n2k adapter drop cable to one of the yellow connections? Then the blue connections would have what? Caps, terminations?
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Raymarine tech support specifically said to connect the SeatalkNG backbone (blue) to the NMEA2000 backbone, not to an NMEA2000 drop or from a Seatalk spur.
1. To the end of the backbone.
- Use a SeatalkNG backbone cable, plug one end into a blue connection on the converter
- Cut off the other end of the cable and install an NMEA2000 connector, M or F as needed by which end of the backbone you access.
- Remove a terminator from the NMEA2000 backbone and connect the cable
- Install a SeatalkNG terminator in the other blue connection on the converter.
2. To the middle of the NMEA backbone
- Use two SeatalkNG backbone cables, one to each blue plug on the converter.
- Cut other ends on both cables, install NMEA2000 Devicenet connectors on both ends, one M one F and connect the cables to the NMEA2000 backbone.
A couple of posters here have suggested that you can use a SeatalkNG spur (white plugs) to connect to a drop connection (T connector) on the NMEA2000 Devicenet. Raymarine did not suggest this as an option.