You would take NMEA 0183 and wire up a NMEA 0183 to NMEA 2000 converter like the Furuno IF-NMEA2k2 over to the NMEA 2000 bus. The converter will translate the 0183 AIS into 2000 and everyone on the 2000 bus will have access.How do I get AIS info from the FA170 to the N2K
I brought a IF-NMEA2K2 to interface the two together.FA170 (commercial product) is NMEA 0183 and the FA70 (Light Marine product) is NMEA 2000. What converter are you using?
I have a NMEA2000 to Ethernet connector, but the data is also not showing up that way. That said, my TZTL12 and MFD12 both see the converter as being there just not the data.Do you have any other devices on the 2000 bus that would allow you to display AIS to verify if the data is there? If not do you have a NMEA 2000 monitor tool like the Maretron USB100?
Yes, the purple cable was cut, light blinking on converter, power was cycled several times. Data is coming out of the AIS to the TZTL and FA170 monitor, the monitor also shows data coming from the com port. Can you confirm the matching of RX to TX as on the R side, the final letters don’t match between the manual for the converter and the FA170.The purple wire was cut and the converter connected to the 2000 bus and then removed (power cycled) so it would sense the mode change? Is the light on the converter blinking slowly? Do you have any 0183 monitor to check the data coming out of the AIS unit?