Raymarine RC520, Owner'S Handbook Manual

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166 HSB Series LCD Display
NMEA 0183
The NMEA 0183 Data Interface Standard was developed by the National
Marine Electronics Association of America. It is an international standard that
enables equipment from many different manufacturers to be connected together
and to share information.
The information is passed in “sentences”, each of which has a three-letter
sentence identifier. When you check to see if one item will “talk” to another,
make sure that the two items both use the same sentence identifiers. For
example: VTG carries Course and Speed Over Ground data; GLL carries
latitude and longitude; DBT carries water depth; MWV carries relative wind
angle and wind speed data.
The NMEA 0183 standard carries similar information to SeaTalk. However, it
has the important difference that one cable will only carry information in one
direction. For this reason NMEA 0183 is generally used to connect a data
receiver and a transmitter together: for example, a compass sensor transmitting
heading to a radar, or a GPS sensor (or Chartplotter) transmitting position and
navigation data to a radar.
NMEA Input Connection
The two NMEA/Power input connectors are normally used for non-SeaTalk
Compass (heading) data or GPS. It can also be used for additional navigation
data (if not provided via SeaTalk).
Connect the input(s) to the orange and yellow cores (Channel 1) and/or the
green and blue cores (Channel 2). Refer to
Section 8.6, Power and NMEA Input
Connection for further details.
For example, to connect a Raytheon Heading Sensor to the NMEA Channel 1
input, connect the cables and power supply using a suitable connector block, as
shown in the diagram below. If fitted, it may be convenient to connect the
power to the SeaTalk auxiliary junction box described in the following section.
+12 V
0V
+ NMEA Data (orange)
-- NMEA Data (yellow)
D3604-1
Red
Black
Yellow
SeaTalk and
NMEA In