Viewing Input Data - NorthStar MX500 Operator's & Installation Manual

Installation Manual
The MX 500 does not process the TALKER identifier (first two charac-
ters following the $ of NMEA 0183 sentences) for any NMEA sentences
received. Any pair of characters within the NMEA specification are rec-
ognized.
The MX 500 does process floating numerical formats in the received
sentences.
Although the current version of the NMEA 0183 standard requires that a
checksum be present, the checksum is not required by the MX 500.
However, if the checksum is included in the NMEA sentence, the MX
500 will reject any sentence where the checksum and data do not corre-
late.

Viewing Input Data

You can view data being sent to the MX 500 by other equipment or
loop a MX 500 output port back to an unused input port to verify if it is
outputting data to other equipment. This is a great tool to use when
you are first interfacing equipment.
To activate the Input Data screen:
Press CFG .
Scroll through the menu and select Operation.
Press EDIT and change Engineering Display from No to Yes.
Press EDIT again to exit the edit mode.
Press the left cursor key until the CFG3 Input Data screen is
displayed.
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Installation Notes
Version 3.0