NN3D communication with New Garmin MFD

[mbreymaier]

I am adding a Garmin 8616xsv to an older boat with and existing furuno electronics suite- 2 MFD's, autopilot, radar, transducer, vhfs all furuno. Can I network them together so they talk to each other and the new screen receives radar and transducer information?

Looks like I can run an ethernet cable from the furuno hub to the garmin screen, right?

Are those proprietary 6 and 7 pin furuno cables nmea1083 or nmea2000? I see you make adapter cables.

Thanks you very much for any help/ideas

 

[YachtyBoy]

Hello mbreymaier,

Unfortunately, no. You can never network other manufactures MFD’s with our MFD’s. You can connect them on the same NMEA2000 backbone to pass data such as Position, COG/SOG, Digital Depth etc… or NMEA0183 data but not network. The 6 and 7 pin connection are Furuno’s NMEA0183 cables but NMEA2000 cables for most manufactures are the same 5 pin connection.

YachtyBoy