Connecting a Raymarine autotiller to a Garmin GPS?

[Gene Neill]

Anyone done it?

I have an ST-2000 and a Garmin 740s. I hear if they can be made to talk to each other, the ST-2000 can then steer to a destination rather than just a compass heading.

I would love to have this luxury. The problem is, I'm a techno-idiot of the first magnitude.

 

[leo310]

I have a Garmin 840 with AV-100 AP using NMEA 2000 but you can do the same using Raymarine SeaTalk1 to SeaTalkng converter kit Part Number: E22158 but you can also use NMEA 0183. If you have other Raymarine seatalk1 ie wind, depth, devices going the converter route your Garmin would see them also.

 

[Ken Cross]

When connecting NMEA 0183 to Garmin, ground the negative data wires as well as connecting to the equipment. This is hard information to find, but it won't interface if you don't.

Ken