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We installed one last year (April) and it worked well on our trip to
Bermuda, except that on the last day during our return, the anemometer and
wind direction functions stopped working. We, also, had it wired into our
RD-30's on the flybridge and in pilothouse. The GPS, barometer and other
functions continued working fine. When we returned, we called Airmar,
returned the antenna/head and they sent us a new one by return mail. Great
service for a terrific product. no connection.
Rock Bradford
44' Cygnus "Magpie"
Gerorgetown, SC
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Frank Osborne <> wrote:
> 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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