July 20, 2006 22:38
Completely disagree with your assesment of the BU-353 USB GPS. I find they work well even inside the cabin (unless of course it has a metal roof)
You cannot directly wire the Furuno GPS output to USB. You have two ways to interface your GPS to a Mac:
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Connect a DB-9 male connector to the bare GPS wires. Pin 2 from the GPS send, and Pin 5 from the GPS ground. Then connect that to a Keyspan USB to serial adapter..
http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/usa19hs/
It may be your GPS Supplier has a cable already made with a DB-9 connector. Garmin certainly offers PC Interface cables for their marine GPS.
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Or if you prefer not to deal with a DB-9 and Keyspan adapter get a Shipmodule Miniplex lite multiplexer which you can plug the GPS (two bare wires) into and 2 other NMEA input devices (Radar, AIS, etc), and repeat the output to up to 4 NMEA output devices (Autopilot).
http://wiredboat.com/news.htm
I like the later choice because it offers expandability.
You cannot directly wire the Furuno GPS output to USB. You have two ways to interface your GPS to a Mac:
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Connect a DB-9 male connector to the bare GPS wires. Pin 2 from the GPS send, and Pin 5 from the GPS ground. Then connect that to a Keyspan USB to serial adapter..
http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/usa19hs/
It may be your GPS Supplier has a cable already made with a DB-9 connector. Garmin certainly offers PC Interface cables for their marine GPS.
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Or if you prefer not to deal with a DB-9 and Keyspan adapter get a Shipmodule Miniplex lite multiplexer which you can plug the GPS (two bare wires) into and 2 other NMEA input devices (Radar, AIS, etc), and repeat the output to up to 4 NMEA output devices (Autopilot).
http://wiredboat.com/news.htm
I like the later choice because it offers expandability.
Scott Dillon
Sydney Australia
North Shore 38
CYCA
Sydney Australia
North Shore 38
CYCA