Frank_280DA
New Member
Hi all,
I have two questions. I tried searching for the answers everywhere and no one can really tell me the correct answer. The boat is a 2005 280 Sundancer with SmartCraft gauges and twin 4.3's.
1. I bought a Lowrance Elite 5 chartplotter that has an NMEA 0183 output. I want to connect it to my VHF and my smartcraft to get fuel economy and distance info. I connect it to the VHF and it shows the correct info for lat and long etc. I then connected the blue and white wires (located behind the dash board) to the same wires from the chartplotter and neither the VHF or the smartcraft gets info, I connect the two wires from the chartplotter to smartcraft with no info, lastly I hooked the wires from the chartplotter to the VHF and the VHF showed lat and long etc. Am I doing something wrong? The people at Lowrance say it should work, the two people I talked to from the dealer say two different things, one says yes it should work and the other says no it won't???? There are only two wires at the back of the dash a blue and white wire.
2. The next issue is for a transducer. My transducer was not showing water temp, so I bought an Airmar DST-800 (depth/speed/temp), and it is NMEA-0183. I have it in the hull, but the wires coming from the DST are red, black, blue and white. The original transducer is wired into the diagnostic plug on the starboard engine and the wire colors are purple, black, blue and white. I can only assume that the purple wire connects to the red wire but wanted to make sure I connect it correctly, can't find anything online to answer my question. Hopefully this will display the speed on the gauge on the dash but who knows??
Thanks in advance for your help.
Frank
I have two questions. I tried searching for the answers everywhere and no one can really tell me the correct answer. The boat is a 2005 280 Sundancer with SmartCraft gauges and twin 4.3's.
1. I bought a Lowrance Elite 5 chartplotter that has an NMEA 0183 output. I want to connect it to my VHF and my smartcraft to get fuel economy and distance info. I connect it to the VHF and it shows the correct info for lat and long etc. I then connected the blue and white wires (located behind the dash board) to the same wires from the chartplotter and neither the VHF or the smartcraft gets info, I connect the two wires from the chartplotter to smartcraft with no info, lastly I hooked the wires from the chartplotter to the VHF and the VHF showed lat and long etc. Am I doing something wrong? The people at Lowrance say it should work, the two people I talked to from the dealer say two different things, one says yes it should work and the other says no it won't???? There are only two wires at the back of the dash a blue and white wire.
2. The next issue is for a transducer. My transducer was not showing water temp, so I bought an Airmar DST-800 (depth/speed/temp), and it is NMEA-0183. I have it in the hull, but the wires coming from the DST are red, black, blue and white. The original transducer is wired into the diagnostic plug on the starboard engine and the wire colors are purple, black, blue and white. I can only assume that the purple wire connects to the red wire but wanted to make sure I connect it correctly, can't find anything online to answer my question. Hopefully this will display the speed on the gauge on the dash but who knows??
Thanks in advance for your help.
Frank