I have watched a few of your videos now and although living in Western Australia, it is highly unlikely that I could purchase products from you, I think that the way you communicate and educate in your videos is exceptional. You should treat yourself to a HD video camera and give the "big boys" a run for their money!
what this doesn't address is the fact that just becasue the NMEA network is powered you still will have to run the power cable for chartplotter or a GPS combo unit as the NMEA backbone, as this video states, doesn't have much power. When I installed my NMEA network I was under the assumption that the NMEA network would power all my stuff and there would be no need for the original power supply to be ran to back of chartpotter and other bigger units. great video but addressing what was said above would be great.
I have power to both VHF an chartplotter. So, you are saying I would have to hook my VHF radio to a mnea backbone then to chartplotter. Can't connect VHF radio right to it? I'm confused
Thanks, it was a good introduction of what NMEA 2000 Network is. I have a question: In this video, the output is shown instantly on a GMI 10 displayer, whenever a new device is connected. Hence, I imagine, the displayer is already programmed to correctly parse the data travelling through the network. Now what if I want to use other device than GMI 10 to show messages? For example, could I connect Raspberry Pi (in place of GMI 10), so that it could accept bits coming from the network (does the network send digital data?), correctly parse them, and then send the output to an AUDIO displayer, so that the depth / wind speed / g.p.s coordinates would be output in the form a LOUD MESSAGE. You can assume, that I have enough knowledge to be able parse myself the incoming bit stream from the net on a raspberry pi using software, given that IT CAN BE READ using some programming language (so for example, the input could be of the form char[] in c language). I am basically interested, whether such behaviour is possible to implement?
that garmin fuel flow sensor has HIDEOUSLY thin wall hose barbs. A real terror for gas inboard installations. I sent them back. -Not on my boat! NO! Rather do without.
good information but please focus your camera,,,,really you can not be standard of the industry and put out videos that are not in focus,,,,sorry for being harsh but someone from your staff said "it's good enough lets roll with it" LOL
I love that West Marine does this, but this video is terrible. He does a great job explaining this, but the fact that he is wearing a dark shirt and the connectors he is working with are black, you cant really see anything that he is showing us. Suggestion, zoom in a little more and wear a lighter shirt and this will be a great video we all will appreciate more.
