The Marine Electronics Hub
Hey, I actually can build something more substantial than sentences! Below is a plywood creation (bigger here) that will let me test the borrowed Maretron products (everything shown) and other NMEA 2000 gear either in my...
Hot words about NMEA 2000 were tossed into a recent rec.boats.electronics thread: “Oh, boy! Another proprietary, improperly documented, non-standard data protocol designed to keep the marine electronics assholes swimming in money for another decade…” Yike! I believe...
The author Thomas Friedman is making waves with his notion that our world has gotten so small that it seems flat again. I certainly see it in my little marine electronics world. One day...
This is the first NMEA 0183 multiplexor I know of that can automatically switch to a back up input for any one of three reasons — “a failure to send any NMEA data, an invalid NMEA...
ConnectFest was one especially notable electronics event at a 2005 Miami Boat Show chock-a-block with the new and notable. NMEA rented a side room where something like 40 devices made by 12 different manufacturers were all...
Brunswick’s SmartCraft system is moving slowly from PR to products. “That is why we designed SmartCraft with three independent CAN communication lines. It allows cross communication among these three CAN lines without risk of...
Airmar’s new retractable triducer is featured by Motor Boating Magazine. “The real advantage of this triducer is its ability to work with either analog or digital instruments that digitize data in a main housing...
So you would like to have a system onboard that integrates virtually every electrical and digital element that can be found on a typical megayacht so that you will be able to control it...
In their own journal, NMEA is again promoting the NMEA 2000 standard. Not surprising of course, but just publishing these press-releases won’t do much good. Companies involved in developing this standard will have to...
ComNav has renewed its NX2 instrument package. Go here to see what’s new about it and whether there’s something in it for you… “By displaying 40 different functions, the Multi Control is the most...
