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Garmin Aera 660 GPS output to AV-30E

WA85

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I am looking for a wiring diagram or pin out for Garmin Aera 660 GPS output to the AV-30E GPS source input.
 
Buy the aera 660 bare wires dock kit. Then run the bare wire kit blue wire (RS232 TX1) or orange wire (RS 232 TX2) to the AV-30 Pin 2 (RS 232 RX). Then in the aera 660 setup menu set the RS 232 mode to either "Aviation In/NMEA & VHF Out" or just "NMEA Out". You would select the first option "Aviation In/NMEA & VHF Out" if you were to parallel the same connection to a modern com radio to tune standby frequencies by tapping them on the aera screen. If you will be using a GDL 5X(r) data device then you could use the remaining serial channel to talk directly to that for a little more reliability than Bluetooth.
 
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