User's Manual

Table Of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENT

1 SYSTEM OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................... 6

1.1 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION .......................................................................................................... 6

1.2 EQUIPMENTS IN THE BOX ........................................................................................................ 8

2 INSTALLATION..................................................................................................................................... 9

2.1 INSTALLATION PROCEDURES ..................................................................................................... 9

2.2 MOUNTING THE MAIN UNIT ................................................................................................. 10

2.3 VHF ANTENNA INSTALLATION ................................................................................................ 11

2.4 CONNECTING TO VHF RADIO ................................................................................................ 12

2.4.1 FM radio connection .................................................................................... 12

2.5 GPS ANTENNA INSTALLATION ................................................................................................ 13

2.6 CONNECTING WITH NMEA 0183 DEVICES .............................................................................. 15

2.7 AIS SILENT MODE CONNECTION ............................................................................................ 16

2.8 CONNECTION TO NMEA 2000 NETWORK ............................................................................... 17

2.9 CONNECTING TO POWER SUPPLY ............................................................................................ 17

3 CONFIGURING YOUR CAMINO-108S ..........................................................................................18

3.1 CONNECTING TO YOUR AIS TRANSPONDER ............................................................................... 18

3.1.1 Required Items ............................................................................................. 18

3.1.2 Installing “AIS Configuration Tool” ............................................................... 18

3.1.3 Three steps to connect AIS transponder ...................................................... 19

3.1.4 Home page of the application ...................................................................... 20

3.2 PROGRAMMING YOUR VESSEL DATA ......................................................................................... 21

4 GET STARTED ....................................................................................................................................22

4.1 START UP CAMINO-108S ................................................................................................... 22

4.2 LED INDICATORS ................................................................................................................ 23

4.3 BUILT-IN INTEGRITY TEST (BIIT) ............................................................................................. 24

4.4 AIS VIEWER DESCRIPTION .................................................................................................... 24

5 SPECIFICATIONS ...............................................................................................................................25

5.1 PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS ..................................................................................................... 25

5.2 DIMENSIONS...................................................................................................................... 27

5.3 NMEA 2000 PGN INFORMATION ......................................................................................... 28

5.4 SUPPORTED NMEA 0183 SENTENCES .................................................................................... 29

6 TROUBLESHOOTING .......................................................................................................................30

7 ABBREVIATIONS ...............................................................................................................................32

8 FCC INTERFERENCE STATEMENT ...............................................................................................33

9 RF EXPOSURE WARNING ...............................................................................................................33

DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY .........................................................................................................34

AMEC WORLDWIDE WARRANTY .........................................................................................................34

APPENDIX: HOW TO DETERMINE SERIAL PORT ...........................................................................35