I’ll start off by saying i’m new to the AgOpen world, but very intrigued and want to start tinkering. I’m currently using 2 older Ag Leader Edge monitors on WAAS, one strictly for guidance and one is running OnTrac2 steering. I have 3 RTK base stations within 30 miles of me on the Ohio CORS network so might as well use them.
First project i have in mind is building a receiver to feed RTK into the Ag Leaders. Requirements for my monitor are VTG and GGA strings at 5 hz rate and 38400 baud rate. I’ve put together a list of what i think i’ll need to make it work. Looking for some input to make sure i’m on the right track before i order anything.
-SimpleRTK2B Basic Starter Kit
-WIFI Ntrip Plugin to use hotspot from my phone
-TTL to RS232 converter to send NMEA to my monitor
-Plastic case to mount it all in the cab
-USB charger to power everything
Is there anything i’m missing? Seems relatively straightforward to get it all assembled. I found this diagram that pretty much matches what i’m thinking i’ll need, as well as the wiring from my current 1500 receivers
I did something similar with a Raven Viper 4, I used an Ardusimple rtk2blite stacked on an Rs232 to everything adapter, then a Wifi ntrip master stacked on top of the rtk2blite.
Made for a nice clean setup, but what you have picked out should work also.
A Trimble cfx750 cannot accept gps signals from an external receiver. The only way to get GPS into a Trimble cfx750 is through the built in GPS receiver. You can’t even use a Trimble 252/262/272 or anything.
A Trimble cfx750 can do external corrections (with an RTK unlock), but not external receiver.
So far so good, having the rs232 adapter accept 12v directly is super handy. It just took some time learning in U-Center to set up the right ports and baud rates, and to learn what a talker code was. Raven required GP instead of the default GN. Thankfully Raven has a pretty decent knowledge base website. I am not familiar with Agleader so hopefully it’s straight forward.
According to Ag Leaders website they use GP as well. Ag Leader is pretty open with using different GPS receivers and have quite a bit of info on their website, so should make it pretty simple.
Be aware that Ardusimple mark the TX and RX pins in an odd manner. TX connects to TX on the rs232 adapter and RX to RX. As opposed to the usual rx to tx…
My current thoughts on that are to use a pair of male RS232 breakout connectors which would let me flip RX to TX if needed, and be able to grab power out of my current display cable to power the board. Would eliminate needing a separate power source and a switch, it would just power up with my display.
