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Mark Cheap monitors are great, but if you can't see it in sunlight or it's too bright at night or you have to replace it every week, it's not much good. But I will probably try it anyway, most likley behind glass or plexy. Frosty Found several serial to USB convertors on line. Do you know How you can link other devices? NEMA 0183 uses Cat 5 cable and RJ 45 connectors, doesn’t it? Just wondering how to link it all up? I imagine...

Frosty knows a lot more about this than I. Do dig around that Maretron site tho, the'll even teach all about NMEA2000 etc.. There is more than meets the eye.

Any information for which wire and color is available on the net, only 2 is required it will even tell you which plug pin to connect to from memory its 5 and 8. Just about every yachty I know has this system, it is the cheapest way of doing this (free) and being at sea with this is a like driving a computer game. The next step is blue tooth GPS.

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Mark, Vartech do some very nice military spec. monitors. They are very expensive though. The obvious question is do you need a display outside, or is it ok to have one on the chart table? You can always wire a repeater outside later, of course. OpenPilot will handle NMEA 0183 over serial or via USB (they both look like serial ports). At the moment you have to build your own interface, but it's not that hard to do, and I can provide...

I try, Tom I try. I found journals relating to optimal tilt of solar panels and engine types, etc. but I still got a lot of work to do. I can't seem to find a Nigel Calder Book though.

Keep trying DIM1 -Tom