Description
This starter kit has everything you need to build a basic NMEA 2000 network on your boat for a single NMEA compatible device such as a radar, fishfinder, chartplotter, etc.
Once your basic network is built, you can easily add additional instruments and components in the future since all NMEA 2000 components are cross-compatible.
What's in the box —
The kit includes an NMEA 2000 6 meter drop cable (19.6 ft), a 10 meter backbone cable (32.8 ft), a 2 meter power cable (6.5 ft), 2 T-Connectors, and (1) male and (1) female terminator.
The basics of NMEA Networking —
Although the following video refers to the now discontinued Garmin GMI10 Instrument Display (replaced by the GMI 20)... it is a great little 4 minute video illustrating the do-it-yourself ease and simplicity of creating a "plug-'n-play" NMEA 2000 Network for displaying the data provided by installed sensors - depth, speed, wind, fuel, etc. - on your chartplotter or other network compatible display, in this case the GMI 20 Instrument Display.