Josh,
Not sure. Will find out when I return from skiing Friday. They are old 
though--installed around 2000, and Raytheon vice Raymarine.

Monty
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> On Mar 25, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Josh Muckley <muckl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Monty,
> 
> Can you give any details on what version of MNEA 0183 your instruments are 
> using.
> 
> Thanks,
> Josh
> 
>> On Mar 25, 2014 11:25 AM, "Monty Schumpert" <jmschump...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> I had a similar issue with 0183 to 2000 conversion. I bought the B&G Triton 
>> wind, speed, depth package, thinking that I would take the mast down this 
>> year to install the wind transducer, and that I could install the speed, 
>> depth,temp transducer in the old housing. Neither of those installations 
>> were possible this year, so I was left with converting data from old 
>> Raytheon ST60 displays to the new 2000 system. I had a Raymarine seatalk to 
>> seatalk ng converter which came with a GPS receiver I bought several years 
>> ago so I fed the seatalk data from the ST60 wind and tridata heads to the 
>> converter and bought a seatalk ng to NMEA2000 cable which plugs into a T in 
>> the 2000 backbone. Everything works fine and all data appears on the new 
>> displays. Next year when I haul the boat, I'll replace the depth, speed, 
>> temp transducer and the mast head wind system.
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On Mar 25, 2014, at 6:07 AM, Josh Muckley <muckl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Joe, sorry for the confusion but I think if you re-read the thread you 
>>> might see that I was talking about the backwards compatibility of the NMEA 
>>> 0183 standard.  It sounded to me like the Zeus takes 0183 v3.0.  So my 
>>> point was that it should understand 0183 v1.5.  However as one of the other 
>>> listers stated there were changes to the sentance structure in v2.1.  So it 
>>> sounds like maybe not perfect backwards compatibility. 
>>> 
>>> On the other hand, I have to believe that the 0183 to 2000 converter was 
>>> engineered properly to noodle throught the nuances of different 0183 
>>> versions and convert them to 2000.  Otherwise it would specify certain 0183 
>>> versions that it works with.  Assuming the actisence converts all versions, 
>>> then it would seem to me that the Zeus could also be equally well 
>>> equipped...who knows whether or not the engineers at B&G had the sence to 
>>> do that.
>>> 
>>> If the actisence only works with specific versions and v1.5 is not one of 
>>> them then this whole discussion is pointless since that was the original 
>>> topic.
>>> 
>>> Josh
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 24, 2014 9:15 AM, "Della Barba, Joe" <joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 0183 and 2000 are totally different. They cannot be interconnected without 
>>>> a device to translate back and forth. For one thing, 0183 is a one talker 
>>>> – many listener system and 2000 is a many talker – many listener system.
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Joe Della Barba
>>>> 
>>>> Coquina C&C 35 MK I
>>>> 
>>>> From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Josh 
>>>> Muckley
>>>> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 8:35 PM
>>>> To: C&C List
>>>> Subject: Re: Stus-List NMEA 0183 to NMEA 2000 conversion
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not a NMEA 0183 expert but I though the different versions were 
>>>> backwards compatible.  So if the Zeus will take NMEA 0183 (3.0) then it 
>>>> should understand ver. 1.5.  I was under the impression that the 3.0 just 
>>>> had MORE reconized "sentences".
>>>> 
>>>> Josh Muckley
>>>> S/V Sea Hawk
>>>> Solomons, MD
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 23, 2014 7:11 AM, "Tony Wroblewski" <triump...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone on the list used the Actisense NGW-1 for a bridge to connect 
>>>> older 0183 instruments to a 2000 network.  The plan is to use a B&G 390 
>>>> system (NMEA 0183 v. 1.5) to feed wind, speed, depth and heading data to 
>>>> B&G Zeus Touch on the 2000 bus. 
>>>> 
>>>> The other alternative is to use a Tinley 0183 New2Old converter,.  Same 
>>>> question.  Has anyone done this. I'm told the Tinley will convert a ver. 
>>>> 1.5 to ver. 3.0 and the Zeus can also take a ver. 3.0 input.
>>>> 
>>>> Tony
>>>> Triumph
>>>> C&C 41 '86 c/b
>>>> 
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