Simrad Maris ECDIS900, Installation Manual

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MARIS ECDIS900 Installation Manual
CREATING SENSOR WITH OUTPUT
The AIS sensor from above is used as an example.
1. Enable channel 8 in SIS4000. Change the channel ID name to AIS and the port number
to 8017.
2. Select menu Channels Settings and change the NMEA-8 name to AIS. The names must
be identical, and they are case sensitive.
3. Enable channel 8 output and set port number to 8017.
4. Change baud rate in menu Serial Port Settings, if needed. It is by default 38400.
5. Open the AIS sensor just created and verify port number 8017 is entered in the fields
PortToRead and PortToWrite.
CREATING ARPA SENSOR
Two or more radars transmitting ARPA targets can be a problem. Per default, the sensors are
set up to use the same Target Table index – index 0.
The data from the radars will overwrite each other, and the result will be unpredictable and
useless.
Change the index for each sensor, so they are different.
1. Place Sensor Monitor in Expert Mode. Double right-click in the right pane and select
Expert Mode.
2. Open the ARPA sensor and click More Settings.
3. Change Target Table index from 0 to 1.
4. Close the sensor.
5. Double right-click in the right pane and leave Expert Mode.
Repeat the procedure on other ARPA sensors created on computers in the network, but select
a different index number (2, 3, 4 and so on).
Example:
Radar X-band, 5 plots from #1 to #5. TT index = 1.
Radar S-band, 5 plots from #1 to #5. TT index = 2.
ECDIS TT: 10 targets numbered 201 to 205 and 301 to 305.
The result is no confusion, and the numbers tell exactly from what radar they are received.
CREATING SPECIAL SENSOR IN SENSOR MONITOR
Wind and Log instruments often transmit in a format not recognized by the normal NMEA
0183 sensor. If everything looks right in the Sensor Monitor, but the data is not accepted
in the ECDIS900, select one of the special sensors from the drop down menu in Norm Type.