99 400DA radar / gps upgrade

[Two Peas]

So now that I've got Sirius weather installed with my C80, many captains at my marina want the same setup.

My dock neighbour has a 99 400DA with Cat diesels. His radar setup is a Ratheon 41XX with an open array. Can we upgrade his 41XX to a newer Raymarine chartplotter (C or E series) and use his existing open array?

Anyone with a 90's era bigger DA do an upgrade like this?

Thanks,
Andrew

 

[920richardf]

I suspect you can use the antenna, but will need to upgrade the pedestal. The serial number ranges are noted in the C-Series installation manual (pg. 13)

 

[Two Peas]

Thanks Rick, I'll look at the manual and see if this antenna will work. For the price of the antenna (it looks like the pedestal is 3X the price of the antenna), it probably makes sense for him to replace the whole thing if the pedestal won't work.

 

[bigduby]

This was a question I posted to Raymarine and their email response:


Response (George Martin) 03/26/2009 02:33 PM
The pilot and the Tri data are the only 2 instruments that will still easily interface with the newer Raymarine products as they both have seatalk data connections.

The 398 GPS can be used as a back up but you will want to have the WAAS GPS accuracy. The radar cannot connect to any of the modern Raymarine electronics.

[MY QUESTION]
Customer (Scott ) 03/20/2009 05:52 PM
I am looking to upgrade electronics on a 1999 boat and I want to know if it can be done in pieces. I want to know if any of these components is compatible with current technology, or at least what the most modern versions are.
Raytheon 650 Autopilot
Raytheon R41XX Raster Scan radar
Raytheon Tri-data
Raytheon NAV 398
ACR Rapid Rix 406 GPS Interface


Hope this helps.

 

[Four Suns]

Well... if all they want is sat weather, they could get a laptop and hook up WxWorx which is based on XM Weather. That's what I use (albeit on a permanent marine PC and not a laptop)....

http://www.wxworx.com/

 

[fc3]

The R41XX and NAV 398 are hopelessly obsolete. Back in the day, Raytheon didn't manufacture anything; they contracted out and most of the junk was made by JRC from what I understand.

Just throw them away. While the 398 does have SeaTalk, it has a crappy implementation of it. The 398 will hang the entire SeaTalk bus and require the devices connected via SeaTalk to be powered off and on to reset them... until the damn 398 hangs the bus again. I have a 398 and it's isolated from everything else because it's a piece of crap, but it's a piece of crap that's filling the hole in the helm. Once I decide on something better to fit in that hole, it's trash.

Either leave it alone or throw the 41 and 398 out. There's no middle ground.

Best regards,

 

[Two Peas]

Thanks for the replies. I'll make him a shopping list and see what he wants to do.

Gary that wxworx product is interesting. It looks to me that the wxworx graphical presentation is better than Raymarine's implementation of the Sirius data. I wonder if there is much different between the XM and Sirius feed, and now that they are integrated, if the two disparate feeds will become one at some point?