Still, after getting the new kit installed and working, I was confident that getting the networks integrated would be easy and take half an hour or so. The new brain also came with a new digital compass and needed to be controlled by the B&G Plotter we installed a couple of years back in anticipation of just this scenario, all NMEA 2000. ![]() Wouldn't you know it, as soon as we put our McCurdy and Rhodes cutter on the market last summer, the Simrad/Robertson autopilot brain that had been reliable for over 20 years and at least 100,000 miles decided to turn its little electronic toes to the air.Īnd, of course, the new B&G brain I selected-mainly because it is a successor to the old one and therefore compatible with the existing bomb-proof drive comprising a Simrad hydraulic pump and massive ram-is all NMEA 2000, while the old brain was a combination of proprietary connections (Simrad Robnet) and NMEA 0183. ![]() Multi-conductor cables are run from here to all areas on the boat with navigation and/or communications equipment so changes and additions can easily be made. ![]() Central network distribution panel on a McCurdy and Rhodes 56.
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