Up and downloading files to Navico NOS chart plotters

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 22:36:24 +0200

The Navico (B&G, Simrad and Lowrance) chart plotters running on NOS, so the Zeus, Vulcan, NSS, NSO, Carbon etc. devices have a little known feature that is an enormous help if you regularly need to transfer files onto or off the device from a different system. The Linux operating system on these devices has the FTP protocol enabled. This allows you to transfer files using the Ethernet connection of the device. It doesn’t matter whether this is wireless or not.

Navico yellow Ethernet cabling

Thu, 06 May 2010 11:07:00 +0200

The Navico ‘yellow’ ethernet connector used on new Lowrance devices such as the HDS series has the advantage of being watertight and easy to make a reliable twist-on connection:

In case you want to use a standard Ethernet switch, or have guys lay ethernet cabling through some narrow ducting you cannot use the normal Lowrance Ethernet cabling and have to crimp an RJ-45 jack onto the Lowrance cable.

Navico on Merrimac

Up and downloading files to Navico NOS chart plotters

Navico yellow Ethernet cabling