Navionics 87043_1 User Manual

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Chapter 2: System Integration
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Networking E-Series Displays
You can connect two or more E-Series Displays to create a network. This will enable 
you to input, view and maintain data across all your Displays and enable multiple 
SeaTalk instruments to communicate with one another.
When you are installing a network of E-Series Displays you should note the following:
• One display will act as the master, into which all SeaTalk/SeaTalk
2
 connections 
should be made.
• If you connect the master display to all other displays in the system via SeaTalk or 
SeaTalk
2
, you will negate the need to unplug and reconnect cabling if the master 
becomes redundant.
• The bridging of data from SeaTalk/SeaTalk
2
 only occurs at the master. You cannot 
therefore have additional networks connected to additional E-Series Displays. You 
can however connect multiple NMEA inputs. 
• As it is not possible to view a video image across the network, you should connect 
the Video In cable to the display on which you wish to view the image.
The following two pages detail a simple E-Series Networked System with two E-Series 
displays and no DSM and a more advanced, multiple node system incorporating two 
(or more) displays and a DSM 300.