Hello,
I am re-doing a lot of electronics on my sailboat. I currently have a Furuno FI50 Wind/Depth/Speed package installed through an FI-5002. I cannot for the life of me figure out how that data gets onto the TZT9 chartplotter, but the plotter does show depth. The FI5002 does not have any connection to the NMEA 2K backbone that everything else is connected to. It seems that it is it's own separate backbone. It is powered independently and has 3 connections to FI-50's (Wind, Tri-data, Depth), and 1 connection to the transducer. Both termination resistors are set to ON. There are no other connections. There are no direct connections of the FI-50's onto the N2K backbone.
I want to share the wind/speed/depth data with other NMEA 2K equipment.
Question(s):
If I wire the FI-5002 to the N2K backbone (as part of the backbone and not as a spur) and turn one of the terminal resistors to OFF, this should do what I want? Is this the suggested method?
Does it matter which resistor I switch to OFF based on which of the 2 backbone plugs are used?
If I want to keep the FI-5002 and the NMEA backbone powered separately, can I just NOT connect the 2 power wires in the NMEA backbone cable at the FI-5002?
If I want them powered together, can I power the FI-5002 from the backbone power and remove the power that currently exists directly to the FI-5002?
Thank you in advance.
I am re-doing a lot of electronics on my sailboat. I currently have a Furuno FI50 Wind/Depth/Speed package installed through an FI-5002. I cannot for the life of me figure out how that data gets onto the TZT9 chartplotter, but the plotter does show depth. The FI5002 does not have any connection to the NMEA 2K backbone that everything else is connected to. It seems that it is it's own separate backbone. It is powered independently and has 3 connections to FI-50's (Wind, Tri-data, Depth), and 1 connection to the transducer. Both termination resistors are set to ON. There are no other connections. There are no direct connections of the FI-50's onto the N2K backbone.
I want to share the wind/speed/depth data with other NMEA 2K equipment.
Question(s):
If I wire the FI-5002 to the N2K backbone (as part of the backbone and not as a spur) and turn one of the terminal resistors to OFF, this should do what I want? Is this the suggested method?
Does it matter which resistor I switch to OFF based on which of the 2 backbone plugs are used?
If I want to keep the FI-5002 and the NMEA backbone powered separately, can I just NOT connect the 2 power wires in the NMEA backbone cable at the FI-5002?
If I want them powered together, can I power the FI-5002 from the backbone power and remove the power that currently exists directly to the FI-5002?
Thank you in advance.