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GPS City Q&As » Marine Network » Lowrance NMEA 0183 Adapter Cable Q&As

Lowrance NMEA 0183 Adapter Cable: Is there a wiring diagram to connect to a LVR-880 VHF radio? (5 replies)

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Is there a wiring diagram to connect to a LVR-880 VHF radio?

› Lowrance NMEA 0183 Adapter Cable

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AJ
San Jose, Ca

Original question asked on Aug 28, 2011, 10:26am

I would like the wiring diagram for connecting the above devices using an NMEA 0183 cable. Also what are the settings on the respective devices for this to happen?

GPS City
Calgary, AB

Reply #1 on Aug 29, 2011, 9:22am

Here is a link to the VHF install manual. (We don't have access to the vhf radio)

http://mediabase.edbasa.com/kunder/navico/download.php?object_id=navidoc~60345729&f=/images/TIBE/device/navico/library/navidoc/navidoc/navidoc/j2009/m06/t02/0001772_2.pdf&fc=988-0158-071_MN000797B_LVR-880_Install.pdf&type=download&user=lowadmin&group=lowr

The Elite 5 cable NDC-4 -
The yellow wire is NMEA transmit, orange is NMEA receive and black is ground. Connect the yellow transmit wire to the receive wire on the VHF radio and the orange receive wire to the the transmit wire. Connect the two ground wires together and it should work. No settings on the GPS side.

AJ
San Jose, CA

Reply #2 on Sep 3, 2011, 8:52pm

Got it working finally. Yellow to yellow and black to green. The reason it wasn't working was the black wire was faulty on the end of the NDC-4 cable. Trimmed it back by a couple of inches and then tried again and it worked immediately.

GPS City
Calgary, AB

Reply #3 on Sep 6, 2011, 12:07pm

Good job

scott
FL

Reply #4 on Mar 10, 2013, 6:50pm

I have a cobra marine VHF and its DNC cable is only 2 wires NMEA , which is red and NMEA - black but my Elite-4 has 3 wire conection, so i called lowrance and they told me to conect Yellow to red and orange- black on VHF side and groud the black wire from GPS. well that didn't work anyone got an idea ?

Jordan
GPS City

Reply #5 on Mar 11, 2013, 8:00am

In some cables there is a resistor and capacitor you have to cut out. Have you tried that?

What are the colors and labels of the data wires coming out of the radio?

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