NMEA 2000 - Only two devices ...

[horacebat]

So heres a basic question, and sorry if its been covered already (I have had a nose!).

If you are wiring only two NMEA 2000 devices together, do you still need to treat the connector as a bus, power it up and terminate each end?, or can you just connect the two devices together ?

In the old days of Token Ring you needed to terminate things properly, but this may well be different!

Cheers chaps...

PB.

[kwil]

The short answer is yes you should still make a properly configured network but, Lowrance used to have a power "T" built into the old GM series plotters and supplied a cable with termination built in so that you could just connect the plotter directly to the GPS puck.

Keith

[Cookee]

Originally Posted by horacebat

So heres a basic question, and sorry if its been covered already (I have had a nose!).

If you are wiring only two NMEA 2000 devices together, do you still need to treat the connector as a bus, power it up and terminate each end?, or can you just connect the two devices together ?

In the old days of Token Ring you needed to terminate things properly, but this may well be different!

Cheers chaps...

PB.

Sorry to disagree with Kwil but the answer is "Depends".

Some devices need external power and some don't. Generally if devices have their own power supply you'll be fine, but repeaters without their own power supply will need a powered bus.

[9D280]

You still need to terminate either way or the data could corrupt due to floaty voltages?

A lot of kit now also has an option to power the network built in. (Lowrance plotters for example have 2 power leads - one for the plotter, one for the network)

[horacebat]

Cheers for the answers guys ...