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Frank,
We just installed a PB100 on our boat this winter as part of a major
electronics upgrade. We have it connected to 2 Furuno RD-30 displays
(one in the pilothouse and one in the stateroom at the head of the bed)
and our laptop running Coastal Explorer (CE) via the airmar combiner
box. The combiner box acts as a NMEA multiplexer so you can connect the
PB100 to multiple readers(pc, chartplotter, & digital displays like the
RD-30). The PB100 not only includes almost any kind of weather data you
can imagine, it's also has a GPS (WAAS) and compass heading that you can
use as a backup or, as in our case, to drive CE on our pc and CE can
display the wind and other NMEA data from the PB100. We also installed
an Airmar SmartSensor transducer with speed, depth, and temp that plugs
into the PB100 combiner box so at anchor all we need to run is the PB100
to give us depth, anchor, and wind alarms. That way we do not need to
run any of the larger Furuno electronics to give depth or gps location.
We have two other fixed GPS's, one driving the Furuno chartplotters and
radars and the other gps connected to the DSC in the VHF and SSB radios.
With a central wiring point, if one gps fails we can easily rewire one
of the other 2 gps's to the priority electronics.
While the PB100 might seem expensive to you (I don't think it is) you
get a lot of capabilities with it. We don't have a lot of hours on it
yet but it seems to be a quality built product.
--
Frank Osborne
Discovery N46-37
Home Port: Anacortes, WA
Frank Burrows wrote:
> Anyone with any experience with an Airmar PB100 ?
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