Section Three - Interfacing; Interfacing The Unit - NorthStar 951X Installation Manual

SECTION THREE - Interfacing

Interfacing the unit

Connector pin
wiring
951/952 INSTALLATION MANUAL Revision B
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his chapter includes the information needed to interface the 951/952 to
other equipment on the vessel. Major topics include:
•
interfacing the unit
•
connecting the unit to other equipment
•
connecting the unit to other 951s, 952s, and 941s in order to transfer
all waypoints and routes
•
configuring the NMEA output ports
•
configuring the RS-232 port
• uploading software
The unit is easily interfaced to other equipment as described below. The
most common interface data format used with installations today is
NMEA 0183, which is a widely accepted standard of data transfer
between almost all types of marine electronics, enabling completely dif-
ferent instruments to "speak" a common language.
The unit has the following ports:
•
two programmable NMEA input/output ports
• one RS-232 input/output port that you can customize for communi-
cating data to or from other instruments
A list of wire designations for the interface connector is displayed on the
unit's PORT SETUP OPTIONS screen, accessed from the USER CUSTOMI-
ZATION screen by pressing the :,5,1* ,1)2 menu key:
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