This spring I will be adding a masthead Raymarine i60 wind transducer with a i70s display to my seatalk system. At the Toronto boat show I purchased the all in one pack which comes with a Airmar depth,speed & temp transducer, presently I have ST40’s installed with their separate displays. My question is:
1 Do it bore another hole in the boat to add the new transducer to supply info to seatalk.
2 Do I replace the ST40 speed transducer with the DST800.
3 Do I leave it as it is, all is working well and why add another through-hull.
Points: I spoke with a Raymarine rep at the toronto boat show, he told me I should switch out the new transducer with the ST40 speedo and feed both the DST800 and the remaining ST40 depth transducer into seatalk, as the network will see the two depth infos and I can choose one as the master the other will remain redundant should the other fail.
Later when I purchased the system the sales person told me he would never put his depth onto the seatalk network in the event of network failure he advises keeping the ST40’s independent but at the very least keep the depth.
It should also be noted that the DST800 made for Raymarine http://www.gemeco.com/transducer-detail.php?transducer=DST800 and the ST40 transmit at the same frequency 200kHz this would cause interferences so I may have to power down one when the other in going.
1 Do it bore another hole in the boat to add the new transducer to supply info to seatalk.
2 Do I replace the ST40 speed transducer with the DST800.
3 Do I leave it as it is, all is working well and why add another through-hull.
Points: I spoke with a Raymarine rep at the toronto boat show, he told me I should switch out the new transducer with the ST40 speedo and feed both the DST800 and the remaining ST40 depth transducer into seatalk, as the network will see the two depth infos and I can choose one as the master the other will remain redundant should the other fail.
Later when I purchased the system the sales person told me he would never put his depth onto the seatalk network in the event of network failure he advises keeping the ST40’s independent but at the very least keep the depth.
It should also be noted that the DST800 made for Raymarine http://www.gemeco.com/transducer-detail.php?transducer=DST800 and the ST40 transmit at the same frequency 200kHz this would cause interferences so I may have to power down one when the other in going.
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