NMEA 0183 Navigation Electronics Schematic
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, 06-19-2017 at 09:58 AM (968 Views)
When I purchased my E38 last year it came with an old Magellan first generation GPS (now removed), a working Garmin GPSMAP180 old style monochrome GPS/Chartplotter using Micro G Charts, as well as a NEXUS wind/depth/speed and instrument server system. Over the winter period I installed a Brookhouse iMux wifi multiplexer, Horizon GX2200 VHF radio, ICOM-M802 HF radio, Actisense NGW-1-STNG NMEA 2000 to 0183 gateway, and finally a Raymarine EVO-100 wheel pilot.
Using the iMux multiplexer I can take NMEA 0183 data from my GPS, GX2200 GPS/DSC/AIS data, NEXUS Server sources and share that data to my chartplotting software OpenCPN or Navionics or iNavx all via wifi on my Samsung Tablet and Panasonic ToughBook. In addition I can send waypoints to the EVO-100 through the Actisense gateway.
It is very unfortunate that so many of the marine suppliers like Raymarine are using proprietary NMEA 2000 protocols that seriously limit easy networking to the use of gateway products like the Actisense.
I could easily have just spent $5000 and replaced all of wind instruments and purchased a new chart plotter from Raymarine or B&G to make the networking easier, but then I would still need to network the NMEA 01083 to the NMEA 2000 Raymarine EV-100.
So here is the schematic of my wiring to connect all of these systems together.
The following are links to the products I have used to create my networking.
https://opencpn.org/
http://www.actisense.com/products/nm...w-1/ngw-1.html
http://brookhouseonline.com/nmea_multiplexer.htm