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hi everyone jeff cote with another
question from a fellow boater for
boating tech talk
all right so we've got a question here
from gary
uh gary says jeff i'm in the process of
completely restoring my dad's 1988 chris
craft 42 love chris craft
i purchased a new a garmin chart plotter
along with a fusion apollo multi-zone
stereo okay the boat currently has enemy
a0183 but i would like to set up enemy
a2000 for my new gear where do i
start i love it i love it
first of all what is nmea
nmea stands for national marine
electronics association
and it's a protocol for sharing
information
zero one eight three is a serial so it's
it's basically an older type of protocol
and we have if you're geeking out and
you're like jeff zero one eight three
what is that do i have it on my boat
again search our youtube search our
website you'll find tons of articles
just on this subject some are really
long published articles that we've
printed for magazines
so you can definitely educate yourself
on zero one eight three
but to stay on topic because i do go off
topic sometimes let's talk about enemy
2000
any 2000
is basically a little bit more plug and
play
but it's not but it's more like it
it uses basically can bus technology so
it's basically five wires
and a two for power two for uh data and
one for shield
and it's sort of a five pin circuit and
you literally plug you don't have to use
tools or anything it's actually can bus
and enemy a2000 is basically meaning
that allows to multiple devices and this
could be your chart plotter a heading
sensor a fusion stereo like gary has on
his boat it could be i don't know
it could be a fire detector a smoke
detector it could be anything i mean
everything is now a lot of new engines
have all their like if you've got a new
outboard it could output j1939 which can
be converted to enemy 2000 so there's a
lot of reasons to do an me 2000 and it's
been out
for a while now you know adoption
relatively good adoption has been
probably anywhere between 15 years is
when it started really getting
momentum about 10 years ago again more
momentum and now it's pretty much
all new boats have it and a lot of older
boats are getting it so the first thing
is
i would think about where are all the
different things that i could
potentially do on my boat for enemy 2000
don't limit yourself my suggestion is
don't limit yourself by simply thinking
about the chart plotter and the fusion
if you're gonna run a backbone a
backbone is the the segment where all
the different devices can interconnect
so for instance
you might want to think about your
backbone your backbone might be only
this long on some boats we've worked on
boats that are 30 meters 40 meters in
length
50 meters in length
the backbone might be way longer you
know some backbones are 200 feet long
now of course we have to separate
there's maximum distances and there's
all these different issues but on a 42
foot boat
you know the stereo and the garmin are
they side by side and what's the
distance between the two so what i would
do is literally take a piece of paper
and we have videos just on this topic by
the way
just on the topic of enemy 2000 but i
would basically draw out a sketch okay
where are all the potential devices that
i can think about today not that you're
going to do today but that you could
think about
and then what you want to do is like
dream big because it starts with a
vision dream big realistic but dream big
and then ask yourself okay if i'm going
to run a backbone where should my
backbone be right so often
on a powerboat we're going to run the
the enemy 2000 backbone from the engine
room
all the way to potentially the
electrical panel and then we're going to
run it to the lower hem and then we're
going to run it to the upper helm and
then we're going to run it up into the
arch or into the radar post or something
like that because there might be other
sensors like a weather station that we
might include so it's going to be
snaking but it's going to be continuous
the other thing too that you want to
look at
is you're going to want to make sure
that you can buy what are called starter
kits and we have one on our website
garmin makes a garmin starter kit it
includes a power drop a bunch of tees a
few cables and the termination resistors
and what you want to do when you build
anything on your boat and i'm telling
you bravado here does not work tried it
failed learned the hard way and this is
what i'm sharing is draw out your
network because we've commonly come on
boats where they have multiple resistors
resistors are used as end caps people
don't know what it's for so gary you're
on the right step here because you're
actually asking questions before you're
doing so probably a garmin starter kit
is probably the way to go
think about where your backbone is going
to be now if the two devices are close
you might not care i've seen backbones
that are literally only this long
because all the devices are
interconnected on this tiny little
segment
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and then after that there are as the
networks get bigger then the question is
where are you going to insert power
ideally it should be in the middle but
the middle of what the distance of the
cabling or the distance of the loads and
that also becomes a factor if you've got
10 devices that are at one end of the
backbone and you got only one there then
where should the power be closer to
where all the loads
mertron a great company they actually
have software to do this uh they've got
an n2k builder
it's a little geeky but it's awesome it
they did that years ago and it was
awesome then it's still awesome today
and if you're going to build a enemy
a2000
network on your boat think about using
the meretron enemy 2000 builder great
tool we use an in-house
it's awesome
and then after that
make sure that you don't in connect too
many t's together sometimes what happens
is you have more and more t's they start
warping
right
and they believe it or not they start
undoing themselves because they're
actually locked into place with threads
right so you're actually locking them
into place into one another so those are
sort of gotchas but right now again
you're only at two devices and the
reason why by the way for the rest of
you wondering why would you connect a
fusion
apollo stereo deck with a chart plotter
well the reality is a garmin sharp
lotter can actually control that deck
remotely so you could be at your helm
and literally have the char plotter and
you can literally have a bar at the
bottom and ring marine does the same
thing so this applies to both
but you can literally have at the bottom
and you can actually be controlling your
deck like if you were at the deck but
you're doing it from your chart plotter
and so you can have the deck be maybe
at the aft of the boat and you could
have
literally be on the fly bridge and you
could be operating your fusion deck
remotely not sending content to it which
is different you're actually deciding
what zones are going to play what what
your treble is going to be like your
bass you're literally operating your
deck you can change the songs you can
pause it you can do all of that
just from your touchscreen
so it's pretty cool and so there's a
good reason why you would want to
integrate a fusion apollo with hr
plotter in this instance a garmin sharp
plotter but like i said
raymarine doesn't simrad does it bng
does it like all the manufacturers have
done integration for
sound systems for a while now and
specifically that sound system is fusion
fusion's awesome is really good too so
gary great question and research on the
website we've got lots of information on
me in 2000 and good luck with your
project
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