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hi everyone jeff cote with another

question from a fellow boater for

boating tech talk

all right so we've got a question here

from gary

uh gary says jeff i'm in the process of

completely restoring my dad's 1988 chris

craft 42 love chris craft

i purchased a new a garmin chart plotter

along with a fusion apollo multi-zone

stereo okay the boat currently has enemy

a0183 but i would like to set up enemy

a2000 for my new gear where do i

start i love it i love it

first of all what is nmea

nmea stands for national marine

electronics association

and it's a protocol for sharing

information

zero one eight three is a serial so it's

it's basically an older type of protocol

and we have if you're geeking out and

you're like jeff zero one eight three

what is that do i have it on my boat

again search our youtube search our

website you'll find tons of articles

just on this subject some are really

long published articles that we've

printed for magazines

so you can definitely educate yourself

on zero one eight three

but to stay on topic because i do go off

topic sometimes let's talk about enemy

2000

any 2000

is basically a little bit more plug and

play

but it's not but it's more like it

it uses basically can bus technology so

it's basically five wires

and a two for power two for uh data and

one for shield

and it's sort of a five pin circuit and

you literally plug you don't have to use

tools or anything it's actually can bus

and enemy a2000 is basically meaning

that allows to multiple devices and this

could be your chart plotter a heading

sensor a fusion stereo like gary has on

his boat it could be i don't know

it could be a fire detector a smoke

detector it could be anything i mean

everything is now a lot of new engines

have all their like if you've got a new

outboard it could output j1939 which can

be converted to enemy 2000 so there's a

lot of reasons to do an me 2000 and it's

been out

for a while now you know adoption

relatively good adoption has been

probably anywhere between 15 years is

when it started really getting

momentum about 10 years ago again more

momentum and now it's pretty much

all new boats have it and a lot of older

boats are getting it so the first thing

is

i would think about where are all the

different things that i could

potentially do on my boat for enemy 2000

don't limit yourself my suggestion is

don't limit yourself by simply thinking

about the chart plotter and the fusion

if you're gonna run a backbone a

backbone is the the segment where all

the different devices can interconnect

so for instance

you might want to think about your

backbone your backbone might be only

this long on some boats we've worked on

boats that are 30 meters 40 meters in

length

50 meters in length

the backbone might be way longer you

know some backbones are 200 feet long

now of course we have to separate

there's maximum distances and there's

all these different issues but on a 42

foot boat

you know the stereo and the garmin are

they side by side and what's the

distance between the two so what i would

do is literally take a piece of paper

and we have videos just on this topic by

the way

just on the topic of enemy 2000 but i

would basically draw out a sketch okay

where are all the potential devices that

i can think about today not that you're

going to do today but that you could

think about

and then what you want to do is like

dream big because it starts with a

vision dream big realistic but dream big

and then ask yourself okay if i'm going

to run a backbone where should my

backbone be right so often

on a powerboat we're going to run the

the enemy 2000 backbone from the engine

room

all the way to potentially the

electrical panel and then we're going to

run it to the lower hem and then we're

going to run it to the upper helm and

then we're going to run it up into the

arch or into the radar post or something

like that because there might be other

sensors like a weather station that we

might include so it's going to be

snaking but it's going to be continuous

the other thing too that you want to

look at

is you're going to want to make sure

that you can buy what are called starter

kits and we have one on our website

garmin makes a garmin starter kit it

includes a power drop a bunch of tees a

few cables and the termination resistors

and what you want to do when you build

anything on your boat and i'm telling

you bravado here does not work tried it

failed learned the hard way and this is

what i'm sharing is draw out your

network because we've commonly come on

boats where they have multiple resistors

resistors are used as end caps people

don't know what it's for so gary you're

on the right step here because you're

actually asking questions before you're

doing so probably a garmin starter kit

is probably the way to go

think about where your backbone is going

to be now if the two devices are close

you might not care i've seen backbones

that are literally only this long

because all the devices are

interconnected on this tiny little

segment

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and then after that there are as the

networks get bigger then the question is

where are you going to insert power

ideally it should be in the middle but

the middle of what the distance of the

cabling or the distance of the loads and

that also becomes a factor if you've got

10 devices that are at one end of the

backbone and you got only one there then

where should the power be closer to

where all the loads

mertron a great company they actually

have software to do this uh they've got

an n2k builder

it's a little geeky but it's awesome it

they did that years ago and it was

awesome then it's still awesome today

and if you're going to build a enemy

a2000

network on your boat think about using

the meretron enemy 2000 builder great

tool we use an in-house

it's awesome

and then after that

make sure that you don't in connect too

many t's together sometimes what happens

is you have more and more t's they start

warping

right

and they believe it or not they start

undoing themselves because they're

actually locked into place with threads

right so you're actually locking them

into place into one another so those are

sort of gotchas but right now again

you're only at two devices and the

reason why by the way for the rest of

you wondering why would you connect a

fusion

apollo stereo deck with a chart plotter

well the reality is a garmin sharp

lotter can actually control that deck

remotely so you could be at your helm

and literally have the char plotter and

you can literally have a bar at the

bottom and ring marine does the same

thing so this applies to both

but you can literally have at the bottom

and you can actually be controlling your

deck like if you were at the deck but

you're doing it from your chart plotter

and so you can have the deck be maybe

at the aft of the boat and you could

have

literally be on the fly bridge and you

could be operating your fusion deck

remotely not sending content to it which

is different you're actually deciding

what zones are going to play what what

your treble is going to be like your

bass you're literally operating your

deck you can change the songs you can

pause it you can do all of that

just from your touchscreen

so it's pretty cool and so there's a

good reason why you would want to

integrate a fusion apollo with hr

plotter in this instance a garmin sharp

plotter but like i said

raymarine doesn't simrad does it bng

does it like all the manufacturers have

done integration for

sound systems for a while now and

specifically that sound system is fusion

fusion's awesome is really good too so

gary great question and research on the

website we've got lots of information on

me in 2000 and good luck with your

project

thanks for asking

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