raymarine suzuki communication

[dogdoc]

West Marine has the 5x points again and am thinking of upgrading my 9 in garmin to a 12 in raymarine. I already have a 9 in raymarine and and evo 150 ap which I like . I like a lot of screen. Recently Suzuki and Ray have worked it out to have engine data visible on the Axiom plus mfd. I currently have df 250's manual, and smg4 gauges. The engine harness from the transom looks to connect to a nmea 2000 backbone and then the gauges. Would I only have to connect the new mfd to the backbone to get the engine data?

 

[SkunkBoat]

what will you get on Axiom that you don't already get on 9" garmin and 9" Raymarine?

You can connect zuke to N2k but you need an N2k power isolator. The zuke gauges get power from "their" N2k bus. If you connect that bus to your "Boat" N2k you need the isolator which (internally) only has data wires and no power wires. Your "Boat" N2k has its own power feed.

This part goes in the "Backbone" between the boat n2k and the zuke stuff. You replace an existing terminator with it and thus extend the backbone.

You can't put this in a drop off a Tee.

 

[dogdoc]

currently all engine data comes from smg4 gauges, no info on the raymarine or garmin mfd as neither is connected to the suzuki backbone. as i see it i have 2 network backbones. number one is the suzuki engine backbone which is nmea2000 and the only info input is from the engines. the other is the raymarine backbone which seatalk ng and has input from the mfd, the auto pilot apu and p70 controller. if i get the new 12 in ray mfd then i would connect the sea talk backbone and then connect the seatalk backbone to the zuke backbone with the added power isolator and a seatalk to nmea cable which raymarine makes.