I am considering an autopilot refit on my boat using a 711C the existing pilot is a Simrad AP50.
I have a couple of questions. First would it be possible to use the existing cable for the AP50's
rudder reference unit (RF300) I believe it is two lead shielded? Running a new one would be very difficult boat is a 100' motoryacht. Second do the control heads use both can bus and nmea 2000 connections if so can the can bus be run with stadard N2K cable? my system will use two 711C control heads. The rest of the nav system consists of 3 TZT14's,Time zero PC
DFF1,2127 radar,DRS12AX radar and PG500R compass. The Simrad AP50's reversing pump will
probably be compatible. I have determined that an upgrade using a Simrad AP70 would be simple as it uses the same rudder reference unit and it uses nmea 2000 for the control heads
But I would much rather stick with Furuno!
I have a couple of questions. First would it be possible to use the existing cable for the AP50's
rudder reference unit (RF300) I believe it is two lead shielded? Running a new one would be very difficult boat is a 100' motoryacht. Second do the control heads use both can bus and nmea 2000 connections if so can the can bus be run with stadard N2K cable? my system will use two 711C control heads. The rest of the nav system consists of 3 TZT14's,Time zero PC
DFF1,2127 radar,DRS12AX radar and PG500R compass. The Simrad AP50's reversing pump will
probably be compatible. I have determined that an upgrade using a Simrad AP70 would be simple as it uses the same rudder reference unit and it uses nmea 2000 for the control heads
But I would much rather stick with Furuno!