Blended Electronics

[zboss]

Tell me about your blended electronics...

Are you using a garmin chartplotter with a B&G autopilot or vice versa? Are you using a raymarine chartplotter or ipad with a garmin autopilot?

What features have you given up by going to with a mixed electronics package?

[skipmac]

Raymarine depth and speed
Garmin GPS and radar
Mixed Simrad B&G autopilot, wind, compass, rudder
Raymarine linear mechanical drive for the AP
Vesper AIS.

All linked on N2K network.

Don't think I have given up anything with the mix.

[Orion Jim]

I have Garmin and Raymarine on N2K and I’ve not experienced any issues in the last two seasons since replacing all my electronics and sensors at the same time. This included a MFD, AIS B, wind, Tridata, wheel pilot, radar, speed sensor, depth transducer, wind sensor, and displays.

[barnakiel]

I am using:


- a SH radio and ais,
- a Garmin gps / plotter (no charts),

- an Android plotter,
- a laptop - for planning, weather, etc,
- our depth and speed are Ray.


They all see each other and talk to each other, except the Ray things.


Also OpenCPN (laptop and Android) cannot talk to the gps, which is a major bummer.


b.

[pilott]

Depth, speed , wind direction: Raymarine ST60 units (2010?)
Chartplotter: Garmin 4000 series (2010?)
Autopilot: Raymarine P70 (2015?)
All talk NMEA 2000, but all use different connectors - Raymarine ST60 is the 3-pin type; ST70 is 5 pin, but different from Garmin 5-pin.
Using adapter connectors, they all talk to each other - no problem.
Radar is Garmin - I think that you need to keep same radar OEM as chartplotter