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Getting ready to replace our chartplotter with a 9" Garmin, and a new SH VHF with ais receive. The existing icom radio has never worked well since we got the boat, now I'm reading that maybe it's compass interference (although the radio's pretty old, so maybe it's just the radio). Anyway, why...

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Starcrafttom - what an excellent idea :)

We bought a 16' cruiser 6 months ago, and although we love it, sometimes I wish we had been able to buy a 16' angler. The cruiser is great if you want to stay overnight, which we don't, we took the vberth cushions out so we could store more gear up front. Although we've never had an angler...

good points colbysmith, I think if we didn't have a dinky 16' and were in a more heavily trafficked area, we would have radar over ais

Everything I've read or seen says that both terminators are needed. On another note, I knew when I started this research that the Garmin chartplotter and SH VHS with ais could be directly wired together. I thought that a backbone would be great to start with to then attach other...

jkidd, thanks, yes I've seen that video and others, the whole process is much simpler than I expected YAY I've looked at the parts you listed too, plus many others :) The reason I may go piece by piece is that I can get 1' drop cables for the helm, and a 13' drop cable to go to the stern...

From what I see, if you start with a 4 port unit (they come with the terminators), you don't need any backbone cable, just the drop cables and battery cable. Sounds like a good way to go, takes up less space. Maybe a little more expensive initially than the "starter" units. But the starter...

Great, Jay, thanks! My other question now that I am looking at actual systems/parts is whether there is any benefit of starting with a T block under the helm box instead of multiple Ts? It seems they are usually a block of 4, and I assume one could be used for power - if you only use three of...

We were thinking of having the primary backbone underneath the helm box (this is a 16' cruiser), and initially just connecting the chartplotter and a VHF. Then we could use an extension cable to add Ts to the stern of the boat for other sensors. My only remaining question is whether the...

thanks so much Jody for the perfect diagram. I guess it's just simpler than I expected it to be :) Still not sure why those cables need a separate power source from the devices, but that's ok :) i understand from a video I saw that the power cable needs to be as close to the middle of the...

Getting ready to install a Garmin 94sv chartplotter with nmea 2000, and a SH gx2400 vhf with ais, also nmea 2000. I've been searching the internet trying to understand what a nmea network/backbone is, and I kept thinking I was missing some middle unit, or module, or something. Instead, it...

I think we'll hook the two up eventually, but we'd like to get them in use, I was just thinking they HAD to be connected like our current setup, but that doesn't seem to be the case. We don't have much traffic around here, but we got stuck in some unexpected fog recently and it would have been...

Steve Baum, so if we don't want to initially connect the Garmin to the radio (in order to receive AIS from the radio to the Garmin), there is no reason to connect the two devices at this time, hopefully? lol prior Steve comment: The vhf with the AIS receive, is connected to the external vhf...

ssobol, thanks, embarrassed newbie here, guess I thought once we adjusted the squelch we'd never have to do it again lol Works perfectly now. Ordered the fixed SH gx2400 today, the price seems to be going up so ordered at $389 from the GPSStore online. Five days ago it was $360 at West...

Looking to replace a very old icom fixed vhf unit with a standard horizon, either the gx1800G with gps, or the gx2400 (that has ais receive, even tho we're not in a heavy traffic area). But we went out yesterday in our 16', and the handheld standard horizon HX890 (3 months and 4 trips old)...

Thanks JMacLeod, but our Garmin with the 54 just arrived, so no going back now lol I don't suppose you have a Garmin fixed vhf? We need to replace on old icom, and I'm going to do another post just on this topic, but we have not been happy with our handheld Standard Horizon so far (we were...

Steve, we took ours apart (2006 original it seems), cleaned and fiddled, still dead. So taking a chance on something else - if not, there is an Attwood unit that looks identical to the original Nikko for about $35 each, but they aren't low and high tones

Yeah, we've ordered a cheap set of Farbin horns to try - at $14 for the pair, worth a try :) As always, it's interesting on Amazon - the same set ranged from $14 to $30 - you have to look around :) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LVR9WBP?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

thanks so much, Steve, for the wiring info. Now I'm not too sure about the standard horizon GX2400, as it's 6" deep compared to the GX1800 which is 3" deep (which doesn't have AIS), and in the small space of the 16', we have to consider how to mount both the garmin and the sh in front of the...