September 30, 2011 08:37
Okay, thanks.
I have decided to take your advice and go with the Raymarine unit. I think it is most likely to play nice with the rest of my system which is all Raymarine. This also limits cross-talk finger pointing among multiple vendors when something goes wrong.
I have two questions.
Question 1: what is the physical medium between the Raymarine SeaTalk/NMEA converter and my Mac? I see from the manual that the Raymarine unit has an RS-232 output. But there is no such thing on a mac laptop. Do I add an RS-232 to USB converter or...what? It also has a two-wire (+ and -) connector labeled "NMEA". What do I wire that to on my laptop?
Question 2: Does PolarView/PolarCom need to, or benefit from, sending NMEA data back to the converter's input side?
Many thanks for your help. I am pretty sure that there are many others trying to find the same answers.
-BH
.
I have decided to take your advice and go with the Raymarine unit. I think it is most likely to play nice with the rest of my system which is all Raymarine. This also limits cross-talk finger pointing among multiple vendors when something goes wrong.
I have two questions.
Question 1: what is the physical medium between the Raymarine SeaTalk/NMEA converter and my Mac? I see from the manual that the Raymarine unit has an RS-232 output. But there is no such thing on a mac laptop. Do I add an RS-232 to USB converter or...what? It also has a two-wire (+ and -) connector labeled "NMEA". What do I wire that to on my laptop?
Question 2: Does PolarView/PolarCom need to, or benefit from, sending NMEA data back to the converter's input side?
Many thanks for your help. I am pretty sure that there are many others trying to find the same answers.
-BH
.