Volvo Penta Petrol engines have 3 different connection types which means that depending on the model and age of your engine, it will determine which connection method and programming type is required. This post relates to Volvo Penta Petrol engines which utilise what is called the VODIA 8 pin connector. The image below indicates what … Read more
We recently visited a client with twin Volvo Penta KAMD300 engines in his Riviera 3000 to confirm that we could successfully display data from the engines onto his Raymarine Axiom chart plotter. Armed with our portable NMEA2000 test kit and a pair of Yacht Devices YDES-04 – J1708 Engine gateways we were able to quickly … Read more
If you have twin Volvo Penta EVC engines there is a quick way to check if you have a “sync” cable already installed and therefore only need a single YDEG-04 Engine Gateway for your boat. The basic test is to switch the cables of the EVC tachometers. If the port tachometer shows data of the … Read more
This post outlines the operation of the J1939 Engine Gateway YDEG-04 from Yacht Devices. Topics include support for different engine makes and models as well as configuration and troubleshooting. Do I need two J1939 Engine Gateways for twin engines? This will depend on if your engines are joined using a sync cable to a single … Read more
Are you confused by all the Raymarine Seatalk protocols you see labelled all over devices these days? This brief article breaks down the main differences and support for each Seatalk protocol. Seatalk 1 This is the original Raymarine networking protocol and consists of 3 wires, red, black and yellow. A Seatalk 1 network consists of … Read more
There are a few different types of NMEA 2000 device connectors in the market. Although the connectors are different the underlying network is still NMEA 2000. Raymarine’s version of the NMEA 2000 is called SeatalkNG, whereas Simrad’s network is called SimNet. The industry generally uses the Micro C connector range, sometimes referred to as DeviceNet. … Read more
To connect NMEA 2000 to a chart plotter you are required to have a basic NMEA 2000 network first, this requires a backbone (1), power source injector (5) and termination resistors (3) as a minimum. You then connect your Yacht Device or other NMEA 2000 hardware to a T-piece directly or via a drop cable … Read more