Connect Furuno GP32 to your Mac

To connect a GP32 (31 or 30) with a Mac or PC, we must first strip the free end of the cable connector 6 pin contains the data wires, in addition to positive and negative power wires. The diagram below shows the principles of wiring.

Wiring diagram Furuno

Keyspan DB9 male converter / USB

The interesting wires for data transfers NMEA are yellow one (NMEA OUT), green one (NMEA IN) and blue one (GND).The yellow wire will be used to send the GPS data or in GPSNavX MacENC, green wire to transfer data (waypoints, routes) Mac to the GPS. We'll have three son solder on the corresponding pins of a DB9 female socket (all retailers of computer), and then use a cable Serial / USB to connect to your Mac, the Keyspan item below is strongly recommended. I do not recommend you run yourself in making a USB plug.

To connect multiple NMEA devices on a single USB connector, I refer you to the detailed explanations available on the page Hardware Onboard for my website, mostly to the chapter dealing with the multiplexer.

Settings GP32

We must go into the menu and find the GPS settings I/O SETUP.

If you send your data only to the Mac, Just set DATA2 (RS232) on REM (Remote) and NMEA VER (Version) on 1.5 or 2.0.

If you send data to your Mac and also to an autopilot, must now set DATA1 on AP (AutoPilot) and DATA2 on REM.

Anyway, He'll have to verify receipt of data in the drawer "Monitor" panel GPS in GPSNavX / MacENC, GPS data shown in green, other data in yellow.

For the meaning of NMEA sentences, You can view this useful document PDF.

Settings in GPSNavX or MacENC

The GPS must be connected to the Mac and turned on before running GPSNavX or MacENC. In the drawer "Settings "Panel GPS, must set the type to "Other", the port to "keyserial.xxxx" and rate "4800 '. To transfer data to the GPS, Both applications use the NMEA sentence $GPWPL to send the waypoints when you activate the functionTransfer > Export to GPS… "In the menus Waypoints or Routes. From experience, if type "Furuno" is used in settings, transfer replaces all existing waypoints.

GPS Control

And of course you have not forgotten, before all, installing Driver Srie / USB you tlchargsur my website (from the page mentioned above).

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