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Old 06-06-2024 | 01:04 PM
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I doubt you can make it work.

NMEA0183 is a mess.

See the thread I created about hooking up a newer Garmin GPS to Mercury Smartcraft.
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Old 06-06-2024 | 01:17 PM
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Curious if anyone has any advice for my wiring. I have a Garmin 741 XS and a Livorsi GPS speedo, Garmin works great but cant get the speedo to work. I have the blue wire from the Garmin hooked to the white wire from the speedo and when turning the GPS on the speedo cycles, goes to the 9 oclock position and after GPS signal is required speedo goes to zero or jumps to around 4 mph and will not read speed? I do not see where i can change the output settings on the GPS, I have the same setup as this thread starter and do not see a solution in this string. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
I have the same Garman 741xs and mine doesn't work ether, hope we get an answer
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Old 06-06-2024 | 01:22 PM
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Are you dealing with the Livorsi antenna that died because of the non-replaceable battery?

If so, just remove it and replace it with this:

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Old 06-06-2024 | 01:42 PM
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wieland, does the back of your speedo look like this ? which white wire are you using



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Old 06-06-2024 | 02:31 PM
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Yes, exactly. I had an older Garmin GPS 180 that I had prior hooked to the speedo and it worked perfectly. The new 741 XS i wired the same way, blue wire from Garmin to white wire from speedo and it doesn't work.
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Old 06-06-2024 | 02:36 PM
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My old one was a 180 also, are you using the white wire in the big plug or the single small one........
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Old 06-06-2024 | 02:38 PM
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the single small one you have labeled PRT
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Old 06-06-2024 | 03:11 PM
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ok thats the way Im connected, I did go into settings and turned on 2 other perimeters that were off
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Old 07-05-2024 | 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by wieland77
Yes, exactly. I had an older Garmin GPS 180 that I had prior hooked to the speedo and it worked perfectly. The new 741 XS i wired the same way, blue wire from Garmin to white wire from speedo and it doesn't work.
Again, the NMEA0183 standard has changed several times in the 25 years since the GPS Map 180 was introduced. Newer Garmin devices are most likely not compatible with a turn of the century GPS speedometer.

Get an NMEA2000 speedometer.
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