Quark-Elec AS06B NMEA Windsensor

[JanKoopmans]

Hello, I recently got Quark-Elec AS06B NMEA WIND SENSOR.  I connected it to the NMEA0183 port of the MacArthur HAT.  But I don't see any data.  I swapped Tx and Rx but no result.  Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas.  I'd love to hear them.

Jan

[Adrian]

From their documentation, it looks like the output of this wind sensor is a serial UART (a bit like a GPS module) instead of proper differential NMEA 0183. UART can work with the NMEA 0183 input of the MacArthur HAT if it is capable of enough current to drive to opto-coupler.

Connect TX and GND for the wind sensor to RX +/- on the MacArthur HAT. You may have to swap wires on the +/- end. In OpenPlotter, you will also have to set the correct speed (4800 bps).

If that doesn't work, you could try directly hooking it up to a UART of the Pi. But before doing that, check with a multi-meter that TX is no higher than 3.3V.

Another alternative is to use a UART-to-USB converter, like they show in their documentation.