How are you connecting to your Triton system? A NMEA2000 gateway like the NGT-1?

I presume you wish to send Mark range and bearing? Or a whole route? 

If the former then you can select the appropriate PGN to send data.

If the latter then I would expect you do not want to send an entire optimal route with a load of waypoints, but a subset of. Create this route in Marks Manager then export it as a *.gpx file then you can transfer to an SD card for insert and upload to your Zeus.

Last edited by Campbell_Field (9/25/2019 11:56 am)

Hi,

IIRC Triton does give TWD/TWS (unsure about TWA but logic would dictate that it shoudl be there), you just cannot calibrate them so teh numbers are pretty inaccurate, but admittedly I'm not too familiar with the inner workings of that system. The manual and the Quick Guide I have looked at refers to TWD/TWS.

You could calulate and calibrate TWD/A/S in Expedition though and send to your Garmin displays.

You cannot currently export a whole route via H5000 to a Zeus - you would have to do the export/import of *.gpx via SD card again.

Last edited by Campbell_Field (9/25/2019 11:56 pm)

Triton² will caluclate True Wind internally based on the incoming Boat Speed, Heading and Apparent Wind using the same logic of maths as the MFDs use to calculate True Wind. The resultant True is then displayed locally on the displays. The Zeus MFD will also calculate True Wind using the same maths and show its internal calculated True Wind on the MFD. As they use the same maths, settings and sources, the numbers will all be the same even though the number isn't transmitted on the network. 

H5000 has advanced calibration which is then used to calculate wind and then transmit this out onto the Network for the B&G Displays and MFDs to show. 

If you have the new WS310 / 320 wind sensor, then if you have Heel Angle on your N2K network, then you can enable Heel Correction on the Wind Angle / Speed coming from the wind sensor which will improve the resultant True Wind in the Triton² and Zeus / Vulcan MFDs.

@ Bob, as you have Garmin Mast Displays, there will be no source for True Wind on the N2K network, so you will have to let the Garmin displays calculate Wind themselves and I don't know how accutate this is or whether you you can apply calibration to the boat speed as the raw data on the network is uncalibrated. We apply the boat speed calibration internally in each display.

Expedition can connect wireless to the Zeus³ MFD and read all the data directly from it (i.e. so you have the same numbers as your displays in Expedition) and I will need to explore this, but you may be able to send your active mark directly to the MFD through this connection.

Hope this helps and clears a few things up, I'm sure there has just been some mis-understanding from the UK Service Team

 

Mike

I have re-read the Triton2 operator manual. I can now see that what the author should have said was:

" True Wind Angle

>> note the TWA calibration option is only available if an H5000 is connected to the system."

According to verbal discussions with B&G Support I expect the "built in TW calibration" on the WS310/WS320 to 
still self calibrate and correct locally for the B&G Triton2 and Zeus3 displays without an H5000 CPU.. When and if it works, I will add a note to these pages and to SailAnarchy, Hopefully B&G would then sometime update the documentation.

thanks BobB
 

Last edited by Badgerb (9/29/2019 11:06 pm)

Thanks Mike

Great, I think that is a clear and succinct answer.

The pages relevant are 64 and 65 in the Triton2 op manual.
Perhaps though the bigger problem is the missing pages where you don't seem to have a functional
specification?

cheers Bob