Transducer to two instruments

[Lazza]

Is it possible to connect a depth transducer to two different instruments??

[rourkeh]

Depends on what you buy. If your transducer and instruments are from one of the major electronics manufacturers like Simrad, Furuno Etc then the answer is yes. Most manufacturers equipment runs off a backbone that interfaces anything connected to it. Don't know about off brand equipment.

[Lazza]

Originally Posted by rourkeh

Depends on what you buy. If your transducer and instruments are from one of the major electronics manufacturers like Simrad, Furuno Etc then the answer is yes. Most manufacturers equipment runs off a backbone that interfaces anything connected to it. Don't know about off brand equipment.

I don't want to use the backbone method - just wondering if it is possible to run wires from one instrument, that is connected to the transducer & working fine, to an extra instrument.

[SteveSails]

If the instruments have NMEA183 interface, and most do, then use that. NMEA183 uses only 4 wires, maybe even 2 in your case. One instrument is the master and the second is just a repeater. As for connecting 2 displays directly to one transducer I doubt that would work out well. If you provide make and model of the depthfinder then maybe we can be more helpful.

[JimsCAL]

I don't think so. The traditional depth instruments work by having the transducer send out a sound pulse and then read the time it takes for the echo to return. With two readouts, the transducer would be excited by both at different times and you'd have two echos. Sounds like neither would display correctly.

With a networked system, you can take the data and display it on a repeater.

[smac999]

Originally Posted by Lazza

I don't want to use the backbone method - just wondering if it is possible to run wires from one instrument, that is connected to the transducer & working fine, to an extra instrument.

You need a master / slave setup. Ie The st60 will do that Or backbone.

[Pete7]

Might be simpler to have two transducers to two instruments. We have a Garmin Plotter with sounder and ST60 running along side each other without a problem.

Pete

[double u]

if you use Humminbird Helix G2N units then several can share transducers via Humminbird's Ethernet
(older units could do this too, btw, they had to be Ethernet-capable like series 700, 800, 900 & 1100)
if more than 2 units share (a) transducer(s) one uses the Ethernet-switch
all fairly basic, starts at 7" screens