NMEA-2000® Support NMEA2000 is a Registered Trademark of the National Marine Electronics Association, at the time of this writing Wakespeed is not a member of NMEA and makes no claims of the TM, nor is making climes of official support of the NMEA2000 standard.
The WS500 Advanced Alternator Regulator CAN protocol shares the same foundation and electrical specifications as NEMA2000, and is able to produce messages which may often be displayed on a NMEA2000 device. It needs to be noted, the WS500 is NOT a certified NMEA2000 compliant device, and its support is a byproduct of the J1939 library used. But in many cases connecting to a NMEA2000 network is successful. If you have issues with either the NMEA2000 or OSEnergy communications capabilities disconnect the regulator; alternatively one may try using a NMEA2000 certified CAN bridge such as the Maretron USB100 Gateway, or Yacht Devices YDNB-07 Bridge. In both cases it might be helpful to configure the bridges to filter out non-NMEA2000 messages (See Appendix C: Sample Yacht Devices CAN-CAN bridge scrip for a sample YDNB-07 script to accomplish this). Wiring: To connect into an existing NMEA-2000 network you will need to make up a patch cable. The simplest way to do this is to cut one end off a common CAT-5 cable and attach a Micro connector. Referring to “ Figure 1 – CiA 303 CAN RJ45 connector specification “ above as well as “ Figure 2 - NMEA2000 connector pinout “ below only the CAN_H and CAN-_L wires need to be connected. With either approach take care not to exceed the maximum Drop-cable length of 6 meters, take care to properly terminate the CAN network and use the following as a wiring guide:
CAT-5 Cable
NMEA2000 Cable
Signal
POSITION
COLOR
POSITION
COLOR
CAN_H
1
White/Green --OR-- White/Orange
4
White
CAN_L
2
Green --OR-- Orange
5
Blue
9
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