Datamaster

Systems containing more than one display must have a designated datamaster display. The datamaster is the primary display in the network, and should be the display that is physically connected to the SeaTalkng® / NMEA 2000 CAN bus network, and any other devices and sources of data in your system. The datamaster bridges the data over the ethernet network to any compatible ‘repeater’ displays.

DatamasterPrimary MFDInformation shared by the datamaster includes:

  • Cartography

  • Waypoints, Routes and Tracks

  • Radar

  • Sonar

  • Data received from the autopilot, GNSS (GPS) receiver, instruments, transducers, the engine and any other compatible external sources.

Note

Your system may be wired for redundancy with data connections made to repeat displays. However these connections will only become active in the event of a fault and / or reassignment of the datamaster.

Note

In an autopilot system which does not contain a dedicated pilot control head the datamaster also acts as the autopilot controller.