Will garmin NMEA2000 GPS work with other brand plotters?

[s/v Jedi]

Originally Posted by dennisail

Jedi is typical wealthy consumer type of person. He has the money and feels the need to replace everything with the best due to perceived obsolescence, and suggests everyone else does the same.

Since my whole system appears to work fine, and I can probably get it all going again for $100. I will not follow the suggesting to throw all that perfectly functional gear away to become waste. Im not into spending $5000+ to replace something that works just because I watch too many advertisements.

Dennis makes assumptions that are wrong Jedi just takes his old gear and sells it on-line for more $$$ than what he paid for the new gear. Fits with me being Dutch etc.

[dennisail]

If you can get away with that, I am impressed. However I seriously doubt anyone can really get away with that for more than a couple of lucky buys and sells. I think that unless you are mates with the producer, it is not going to be remotely possible to sell broken "antique" gear for more than what new stuff is worth.

[s/v Jedi]

Originally Posted by dennisail

If you can get away with that, I am impressed. However I seriously doubt anyone can really get away with that for more than a couple of lucky buys and sells. I think that unless you are mates with the producer, it is not going to be remotely possible to sell broken "antique" gear for more than what new stuff is worth.

You keep making wrong assumptions. Old B&G Hydra2000 components sell for more than what new N2K components cost, regardless of what you think it should be. It was the trigger to make the change for me. A replacement wind instrument would have cost more than $1,200.- and it's just a mechanical thinghy that would be destroyed by birds again. My new N2K wind instrument is ultrasonic so no moving parts, gives barometric pressure, air temperature and humidity as bonus and only cost around $500.

Putting extra money into old, discontinued equipment is just fine as it gives others an option to sell theirs.

[goboatingnow]

Jeepers , the OP has the 0183 cable, pick up a cheap 0183 GPS. Away he goes.

Dave


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[DotDun]

Originally Posted by DotDun

Cut the cables and splice them together. SeatalkNG and N2K use the same color code and are electrically the same.

Originally Posted by goboatingnow

Just remember the backbone seatalk ng cable contains a seatalk centre pin ( I thinks it's a yellow wire ). The drop cables remove this.

Dave

Originally Posted by DotDun

Good point! I was referring to the drop cables.

I'm going to counter this. The Raymarine STng backbone cable is 4 conductor, same color code as NMEA2000, red, black, white, blue, no yellow wire. I've installed NMEA2000 connectors on RM backbone cable.

[goboatingnow]

Originally Posted by DotDun

I'm going to counter this. The Raymarine STng backbone cable is 4 conductor, same color code as NMEA2000, red, black, white, blue, no yellow wire. I've installed NMEA2000 connectors on RM backbone cable.

Sorry yes, my bad, it's the drop cables that have the seatalk 5th pin

Dave


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