Using an Autohelm 4000 how do you connect it to a GPS?

March 8, 2009 by admin · 2 Comments
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Moe N asked:


This boat has a Magellan GPS and will have a Laptop running whatever NAV software this setup will require. The Idea is to be able to have the boat travel a route as programmed into the GPS waypoint by waypoint. if the PC is not required great!

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2 Responses to “Using an Autohelm 4000 how do you connect it to a GPS?”
  1. Caveman says:
    March 9, 2009 at 11:31 am

    Looks like it’s not made to interface with GPS.

  2. Audio God™ says:
    March 12, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    We have an older Magellan GPS (Meridian XL) and it interfaced beautifully with our Autohelm 2000+. We have an Acer Aspire laptop (w/Cap’n Voyager program) hooked into the system as well, which we use as a chartplotter, but it is NOT required for us to navigate point-to-point as the GPS transmits data to the Autohelm in the NMEA 0183 format.

    You’ll need a power/data cable from Magellan to get it done.

    Good Luck

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