Heading sensor connected to 2 plotters

[ZZ13]

Tim, curious as to why you want to direct connect to the spade connectors at the RL80C rather than using the Raymarine cable. I had to wire my SL70CRC NMEA output to my Smartcraft speedometer and was able to use that same Raymarine cable. I put bullet connectors on the GND and SIG wire-ends and matching bullet connectors on the two Smarcraft NMEA wires and then just plugged them together. I got the cable used online for $9.

FYI, I did "prototype" the operation first with a rigged up temporary direct connect to the spade connectors and all seemed to work fine without the ferrite clamped cable.

 

[timjet]

Tim, curious as to why you want to direct connect to the spade connectors at the RL80C rather than using the Raymarine cable. I got the cable used online for $9.

Well the real reason is I'm cheap. Don't want to spend the money, but for $9!!

I bought a Garmin 740 touch screen a year ago because the RL 80 C is hard to read especially when you try and follow a route. I wish now I hadn't bought the Garmin and just replaced the RL 80C with a new chart plotter and radar. But I didn't, so I'm going to live with what I've got. When the radar goes out I'm not sure what I'm going to do, probably try and sell the Garmin unit and get a new radar chart plotter.
The Garmin touch screen is really nice but at only 7" wide a bit small to display radar images which it can do.

Anyway that's why I don't want to spend the money on a multiplexer and cable because I'll probably have to get all new electronics in a year or so.

 

[ZZ13]

Well the real reason is I'm cheap. Don't want to spend the money, but for $9!!

I bought a Garmin 740 touch screen a year ago because the RL 80 C is hard to read especially when you try and follow a route. I wish now I hadn't bought the Garmin and just replaced the RL 80C with a new chart plotter and radar. But I didn't, so I'm going to live with what I've got. When the radar goes out I'm not sure what I'm going to do, probably try and sell the Garmin unit and get a new radar chart plotter.
The Garmin touch screen is really nice but at only 7" wide a bit small to display radar images which it can do.

Anyway that's why I don't want to spend the money on a multiplexer and cable because I'll probably have to get all new electronics in a year or so.

At least you have the 8 inch Raymarine screen. Mine is the 7 inch version. Its a little tough for my 50+ year old eyes. The lines and numbers are so finely drawn - I wish I could turn on a "bold" font. I have no issue with this 10 year oldish Raymarine system otherwise.

I was planning the 740 with the 18HD dome as my upgrade next year. But I have been on enough boats with 8 inch displays lately that I think that is the minimum I could use.

By the way, when I was searching for a cable I found that the Raymarine R55005 cable you need is about $22 brand new online.