Identifying Your Display Variant; Networking Constraints - Raymarine A Series Installation And Operation Instructions Manual

3.4 Identifying your display variant

To discover which model display you have follow the
steps below:
From the homescreen:
1. Select Set-up.
2. Select Maintenance.
3. Select Diagnostics.
4. Select Select Device.
5. Search the Network column for the 'This Device'
entry.
6. The Device column for this record will list the
model of your display.
Planning the installation

3.5 Networking constraints

Raymarine's 3 rd generation LightHouse powered
MFDs (a Series, c Series, e Series and gS Series)
can be networked together.
General
• Up to 10 LightHouse powered MFDs can be
connected together using SeaTalk
• MFDs can also be connected via SeaTalk
NMEA 0183, but not all functions are supported.
• All networked aa Series, c Series and e Series
displays must contain LightHouse software
release V4.32 or later.
• All networked gS Series displays must contain
LightHouse software release V7.43 or later.
Note: The a6x and a7x variant a Series MFDs
cannot be networked using NMEA 0183.
Master / repeater operation
• Any network featuring more than 1 MFD must have
1 of the displays designated as the data master.
• The data master display will receive data through
NMEA 0183 and / or SeaTalk
data over SeaTalk hs
Homescreen sharing
• When networked, MFDs can share a homescreen.
Cartography sharing
• The cartography contained on chart cards is
always used in preference to the embedded world
base map when a chart card is inserted into a card
slot.
• Chart card cartography can be shared between
MFDs.
Radar operation
• MFDs support the use of up to 2 Radar scanners
simultaneously.
• The data supplied by a connected Radar
scanner(s) is repeated to any networked displays.
Note: All MFDs must have LightHouse II Release
V12.xx software or later to enable multiple radar
support.
Sonar / DownVision ™
• You can connect an external sonar module unit to
the MFD via the SeaTalk
• Sonar and DownVision
an internal sonar module which enables direct
connection to a compatible transducer.
• You can have multiple active sonar modules
(internal and external) on a network. You must
select the sonar module / channel you want to use
from the Fishfinder application menu.
• The data supplied by the sonar module is repeated
to all networked displays.
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