2019-04-17, 10:27 PM
(2019-04-17, 08:51 PM)sjgharib Wrote: You guys are great - thanks for all the great information. That actually really changes my plan. I had assumed I could tie my ST60 into the zeus with the NMEA0183 connection, but now I need to re-think!
ok, one more question:
Has anyone reverse engineered the sensors that feed the ST60 instruments? I.e., can I connect the signal wires from the depth, speed, and wind instruments to a "box" that would then output to SignalK, NMEA0183, or even NMEA2K? Then I could theoretically get rid of my ST instruments totally.
Ultimately I could replace these with newer N2K sensors, but the wind one is particularly difficult considering it's 52' up on the mast, and the speed / depths are thru-hulls...
We've a similar setup, an older Raymarine ST 70 system (which uses Seatalk NG) and B&G Zeus 2.
In order to get the wind data of the old ST 70 vane on the Zeus 2 I had to replace the original transducer with a Raymarine iTC-5. The iTC-5 has inputs for older Raymarine depth, wind, speed, compass and rudder sensors and pushes the NMEA 2k PGNs on the network. The B&G can then see them just fine.
Originally I had planned to reverse engineer the protocol and build a N2K converter myself, but after a reality check how long this would take me I simply bought the iTC-5...