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G'day All,
I have a FCV585 and have had my old Garmin 128 connected to it for many years to provide Lat/Long to the sounder and it worked fantastic.
I recently upgraded my Garmin unit to a GPSMAP 820xs and thought that I may be able to get the units to talk so that I could mark a waypoint on the 585 and have it appear on the Garmin plotter.
That aside, I am confused as to the connections that make it all work. The Garmin has 2 x NMEA 0183 ports and when I check the 585 I can monitor 2 ports aswell. I orginially connected the units the following way -
Furuno Garmin
TD-A (White) - RX Port 1 (Brown)
RD-A (Yellow) - TX Port 1 (Blue)
TD-B (Blue) - RX Port 2 (Violet)
RD-B (Green) - TX Port 2 (Grey)
I couldn't get the Lat/Long to display on the 585.
So I changed things around to
Furuno Garmin
TD-A (White) - RX Port 1 (Brown)
RD-A (Yellow) - TX Port 1 (Blue)
TD-B (Blue) - NC
RD-B (Green) - GND
It now shows Lat / Long... albeit WRONG!!! It differs from what the 820xs states.
To me it seems that the 585 has 1 NMEA 0183 port with the pairs being White&Blue(shield) for TX and Yellow&Green(shield) for RX would this be correct? However I can monitor 2 NMEA ports on the 585 and see data transfering on both.
Bloody confusing to say the least.
Any suggestions on how best to hook these two units up and does the 585 have 2 individual 0183 ports or is it that even though the ports on the 585 and labeled 1 & 2 they are infact TX & RX of a single port.
Cheers all
Heath
I have a FCV585 and have had my old Garmin 128 connected to it for many years to provide Lat/Long to the sounder and it worked fantastic.
I recently upgraded my Garmin unit to a GPSMAP 820xs and thought that I may be able to get the units to talk so that I could mark a waypoint on the 585 and have it appear on the Garmin plotter.
That aside, I am confused as to the connections that make it all work. The Garmin has 2 x NMEA 0183 ports and when I check the 585 I can monitor 2 ports aswell. I orginially connected the units the following way -
Furuno Garmin
TD-A (White) - RX Port 1 (Brown)
RD-A (Yellow) - TX Port 1 (Blue)
TD-B (Blue) - RX Port 2 (Violet)
RD-B (Green) - TX Port 2 (Grey)
I couldn't get the Lat/Long to display on the 585.
So I changed things around to
Furuno Garmin
TD-A (White) - RX Port 1 (Brown)
RD-A (Yellow) - TX Port 1 (Blue)
TD-B (Blue) - NC
RD-B (Green) - GND
It now shows Lat / Long... albeit WRONG!!! It differs from what the 820xs states.
To me it seems that the 585 has 1 NMEA 0183 port with the pairs being White&Blue(shield) for TX and Yellow&Green(shield) for RX would this be correct? However I can monitor 2 NMEA ports on the 585 and see data transfering on both.
Bloody confusing to say the least.
Any suggestions on how best to hook these two units up and does the 585 have 2 individual 0183 ports or is it that even though the ports on the 585 and labeled 1 & 2 they are infact TX & RX of a single port.
Cheers all
Heath