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- roc
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Advice on best/most compatible GPS puck to use with Expedition needed.
Need advice on the most compatible, easy to install/use, GPS puck for Expedition. I recently had an opportunity to use a Zenstar III, but there were a lot of driver issues with Windows 10. Any advice appreciated.
- sheldon.haynie
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Re: Advice on best/most compatible GPS puck to use with Expedition needed.
Are you planning to use without any other sailing instruments?
Quite a bit of the system value comes from the ability to integrate and process the sailing instrument readings available over NMEA 0183/2000 and assess & tune performance. Modern NMEA 2000 units (e.g. Navico ZG100) have =>10Hz rates and precision in the sub meter, with 10 meter accuracy. If there's no available data for heading/wind/boat speed, then any GPS that you can install would be pretty much the same in terms of usability.
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Re: Advice on best/most compatible GPS puck to use with Expedition needed.
Would probably use a wide range of Raymarine instruments for the next race, and it's got it's own GPS nmea0183 device compatibility; this is intended to be (for now), just a makeshift opportunity to learn the software further. At sea, if I got it working successfully, I guess it'd be a backup to the Raymarine system as well.
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Thread Starter- sheldon.haynie
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Re: Advice on best/most compatible GPS puck to use with Expedition needed.
Roc,
I am using from desk, without any GPS/Instruments. You don't need connection to explore.
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Re: Advice on best/most compatible GPS puck to use with Expedition needed.
I use a GlobalSat puck, about $50, locks on signal very fast and I feed into USB port. When you do this, however, you should uncheck the box for your instruments to send lat lon from the ship's GPS. I affix the puck to a cabin window via velcro. Only problem I have ever had is if a crew member is leaning in directly over the window where the puck is, but that rarely occurs. HIKE!!
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Re: Advice on best/most compatible GPS puck to use with Expedition needed.
pepv wrote:
I use a GlobalSat puck, about $50, locks on signal very fast and I feed into USB port. When you do this, however, you should uncheck the box for your instruments to send lat lon from the ship's GPS. I affix the puck to a cabin window via velcro. Only problem I have ever had is if a crew member is leaning in directly over the window where the puck is, but that rarely occurs. HIKE!!
Thanks very much for this advice.
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