Need help and Advice for my 26M
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RobertB
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Re: Need help and Advice for my 26M
I hope so, this is the only cable I can find. Thus my plan to have two types of NMEA network cabling, the RayMarine SeaTalk-NG and the standard NMEA-2000 for the Lowrance cable and the Garmin chartplotter.
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Russ
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Re: Need help and Advice for my 26M
I would start about an inch from the bottom. You will have to unpin it to make adjustments, so mast raising pole will need to be there for this. I'm going from memory. I seem to remember a washer and lock nut. Was it a nylon lock nut? You need that to stay put.bedouin wrote: Yes, I have the Black Macgregor furler. Looks like I am missing some nuts too (where the heck did they go???) Is there a washer or two on there somewhere? Yes, I do have the safety pin. Any idea how far up the threaded end of the headstay should I start the first nut for tension? Midway?
It's not very complicated. You will figure it out.
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mastreb
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Re: Need help and Advice for my 26M
Yes, the Lawrence cable is standard NMEA-2000. I have it on my Garmin chart plotter, RayMarine autopilot system.
The EV-1 comes with all necessary network cabling:
1x 5-port breakout bar
2x terminators
1x SeaTalkNG to tinned screw terminal wires for the control head
2x SeaTalk cables for the P70 control head and the 9-axis sensor.
Robert, the RayMarine comes with a 5-port breakout bar into which you'll plug all three network cables for the autopilot motor controller, the control head, and the 9-axis sensor. If it's your only network devices, you'll put terminators in the other two spots. The motor controller bridges 12VDC onto the network.
If you have an NMEA-2000 network already, you can connect one end of this 5-port breakout to a SeaTalkNG-NMEA2K adapter cable and run that to the rest of your network.
I just adapted each SeaTalkNG device to the NMEA-2K backbone instead. The engine controller has screw terminals and so could use a cut NMEA cable I already had, I turned my pedestal run for the Garmin into an end of the network and terminated it on the P70 with a short adapter cable, and put a field-installable NMEA-2K connector on a cut SeaTalkNG cable for the 9-axis. I wound up doing this simply because it was the easier geometry with my already existing NEMA cable plant.
Matt
The EV-1 comes with all necessary network cabling:
1x 5-port breakout bar
2x terminators
1x SeaTalkNG to tinned screw terminal wires for the control head
2x SeaTalk cables for the P70 control head and the 9-axis sensor.
Robert, the RayMarine comes with a 5-port breakout bar into which you'll plug all three network cables for the autopilot motor controller, the control head, and the 9-axis sensor. If it's your only network devices, you'll put terminators in the other two spots. The motor controller bridges 12VDC onto the network.
If you have an NMEA-2000 network already, you can connect one end of this 5-port breakout to a SeaTalkNG-NMEA2K adapter cable and run that to the rest of your network.
I just adapted each SeaTalkNG device to the NMEA-2K backbone instead. The engine controller has screw terminals and so could use a cut NMEA cable I already had, I turned my pedestal run for the Garmin into an end of the network and terminated it on the P70 with a short adapter cable, and put a field-installable NMEA-2K connector on a cut SeaTalkNG cable for the 9-axis. I wound up doing this simply because it was the easier geometry with my already existing NEMA cable plant.
Matt