Special Nmea Sentences; Baudrate Control - Furuno FI-301 Operator's Manual

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12.8 Special NMEA sentences

The Server can read 2 special NMEA sentences which can be send from a PC. One

contains TBS (target boat speed), the other CAD (customised angle data ) and CFD

(customised fixpoint data ). These 3 data are retransmitted on the Nexus Network and

can be displayed as a sub-function on the Multi Control instrument.

To get the sub-function TBS, select main function SPEED and the "empty" sub-

function.Then press PAGE and SET together followed by CLEAR.

To get the sub-function CAD, select main function NAVIGATE and the "empty" sub-

function.Then press PAGE and SET together followed by CLEAR.

To get the sub-function CFD, select main function WIND and the "empty" sub-

function.Then press PAGE and SET together followed by CLEAR.

Example of special NMEA-sentence:

$PSILTBS,X.X,N<CR><LF>

$PSILCD1,X.X,X.X,<CR><LF>

It is possible to change the baudrate from 4800bps to 19200bps. To do that, a PC is

required. Note 19200 is not to be considered as NMEA since the standard states 4800.

a. The Requesting unit is allowed to transmit the message:

"$PSILBPS,19200,R,<CR><LF>"

once every 2s at nominal 4800 bps with normal NMEA start bit and stop bit settings.

This message may be received on any of the two Server ports.

b. The receiving unit (FI-30 Server) will Confirm message:

"$PSILBPS,19200,C,<CR><LF>"

and send it back on output ports to the requesting unit.

c. When the requesting unit receives the same message but with the flag set to "C"

(Confirmed), both server ports (A and B) are set to 19200bps and transmission may

start at the new baudrate. The sending unit may now stop sending the proprietary

request message since it has entered the higher baudrate. There is no way back

unless there is a power loss.

From power up, baudrate is always set to 4800 and the above procedure must be

repeated.

The receiving unit (Nexus Server) will always check for the proprietary message when

in normal baudrate, not when in high baudrate.

Knots

Target boat speed

CAD (000.0°-360.0°)

CFD (-327.67- +327.67 units)

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