This year I have replaced all the instruments transducers for depth, speed, and wind with the latest and greatest from Raymarine. Before I started running the wires all over the place, I wanted to make sure that they were all working.
All the transducers connect to a connection box called an iTC-5
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Speed/temp on top
Wind in middle
Depth on bottom |
This unit talks Raymarine's SeaTalk NG (a variation of NMEA 2000) to all the other displays (two i70 multi function displays and an E7 chartplotter).
The other day, nothing worked. I had emailed Raymarine support, and they suggested some things. Turns out the bus connector between the iTC-5 and the i70 was not pushed in far enough. I now have depth, speed, water temperature, and wind data.
The boat is stationary, so no speed data, and there isn't enough wind to register wind speed, but it is showing the wind direction!
This shows the sea temperature.
This is great!
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