Josh, you are right, equipment is supposed to be backward compatible, but unfortunately some significant sentence structure changes were made btw ver 1.5 and 2.1 where checksums and a mode indicator were added and the # of decimal points were increased, so most equipment now will read back to about ver. 2.1 without problems. I'm also told the Zeus may accept some but not all sentences.
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:35:20 -0400 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stus-List NMEA 0183 to NMEA 2000 conversion I'm not a NMEA 0183 expert but I though the different versions were backwards compatible. So if the Zeus will take NMEA 0183 (3.0) then it should understand ver. 1.5. I was under the impression that the 3.0 just had MORE reconized "sentences". Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk Solomons, MD On Mar 23, 2014 7:11 AM, "Tony Wroblewski" <[email protected]> wrote: Has anyone on the list used the Actisense NGW-1 for a bridge to connect older 0183 instruments to a 2000 network. The plan is to use a B&G 390 system (NMEA 0183 v. 1.5) to feed wind, speed, depth and heading data to B&G Zeus Touch on the 2000 bus. The other alternative is to use a Tinley 0183 New2Old converter,. Same question. Has anyone done this. I'm told the Tinley will convert a ver. 1.5 to ver. 3.0 and the Zeus can also take a ver. 3.0 input. Tony Triumph C&C 41 '86 c/b _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
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