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June 4, 2020 at 10:58 am #690402

spbait
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I recently replaced the Humminbird 1198 that came with my 2012 Eyra with the Solix 10 mega si G2. As suspected, I lost the nmea speed output to my boat speedometer. How do reconnect?

June 4, 2020 at 7:30 pm #690419

Bass Cat Boats
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There is a NMEA GPS output you’ve overlooked connecting.

June 5, 2020 at 10:39 am #690426

spbait
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I realize that. What I asked was how to connect the nmea output to the speedometer.

June 6, 2020 at 10:33 am #690450

barrigj
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Following, as I have the same issue, although I swapped out Lowrance Hook to a Lowrance Elite Ti2 and now the speedometer does not work.
Any help in reconnecting would be great!

June 6, 2020 at 1:22 pm #690451

spbait
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It would seem that someone with Bass Cat would be all over this since they did my original installation and are probably rigging boats every day with the solix units connected to the speedometer.

June 6, 2020 at 2:02 pm #690452

Bass Cat Boats
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That’s something we do and we think it’s the orange wire off the graph harness, though it’s something the moderators don’t actually do.

BCB

June 8, 2020 at 12:07 pm #690472

spbait
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Since that is something “that we do” would someone be kind enough to talk to that “someone” who actually does it and provide the information I requested. I would be most grateful.

June 8, 2020 at 1:56 pm #690473

Sparker
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You guys need to go into your (for Lowrance, Humminbird is probably similar) SETTINGS, NETWORK, and enable (meaning click on the box or bubble) NMEA 0183 OUTPUT – sometimes it is one bubble to highlight, sometimes it is a list of SENTENCES, depending on the unit.

What happened is, the NMEA 0183 output is off by default, so installing a new unit or having done a hard reset on an existing unit, you have to tell the unit to output the NMEA data. The wiring is already there if it ever worked before.

The NMEA network is normally built by Bass Cat and the sonar units are normally installed or set up by your dealer. Although I’m sure this can vary.

It’s stupid simple, once you figure out where in the menu to find it.

June 8, 2020 at 2:22 pm #690474

haroldkistner
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barrigj:

Following, as I have the same issue, although I swapped out Lowrance Hook to a Lowrance Elite Ti2 and now the speedometer does not work.
Any help in reconnecting would be great!

Not to hijack this thread, but I have a similar but different problem with the speedometer. Mine was hooked up with the nmea 0183 output from my Lowrance HDS-12 Carbon and the speedometer set to GPS worked great. Everything worked fine until I installed a Mercury Vessel View link which gives me the engine information along with GPS speed. My smartcraft 1000 speedometer quit working. I have switched it over to work off of the Pitot which is very inaccurate. As far as I know the nmea 0183 from the HDS is still hooked up. Question is how do I get the speedometer back to working off the GPS again??

June 9, 2020 at 9:15 am #690520

spbait
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I will check out your idea, however don’t believe it will fix problem. None of the connectors except ethernet on the 1198 will fit the solix. As I recall the solix has three connectors that connect on a normal installation. They are the power, the Y cable that connects the side imaging/down imaging and the 2D transducers, and the ethernet cable. The ethernet goes straight to the bow mounted unit and shares waypoints. The two connectors that are not used are the nmea o183 and nmea 2000. Humminbird sells a splitter cable to connect the nmea 0183. I don’t see any way to get the nmea 0183 output to the speedometer without running a connection from the solix. There is none now. Still waiting to hear from BCB with a good answer.

June 9, 2020 at 9:44 am #690522

barrigj
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Huge shout out to Sparker!! Your advice seems to have fixed the problem for my Lowrance units. While I am not on the water, it is reading on the SC 1000 gauge exactly what the GPS is reading for speed-overground and changes in the tenths as the depth finder changes.
Sparker, you were correct that the Nema 0183 output was turned off.

Thanks for everyone’s help
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