magellan gps accessories

Using an Autohelm 4000 how do you connect it to a GPS?

This boat has a Magellan GPS and will have a Laptop running whatever NAV software this setup will require. The Idea is to be able to have the boat travel a route as programmed into the GPS waypoint by waypoint. if the PC is not required great!

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1. Looks like it's not made to interface with GPS. http://www.raymarine.com/raymarine/SubmittedFiles/Handbooks/Legacy_Handbooks/Autopilot/AH4000.pdf
2. We have an older Magellan GPS (Meridian XL) and it interfaced beautifully with our Autohelm 2000+. We have an Acer Aspire laptop (w/Cap'n Voyager program) hooked into the system as well, which we use as a chartplotter, but it is NOT required for us to navigate point-to-point as the GPS transmits data to the Autohelm in the NMEA 0183 format. You'll need a power/data cable from Magellan to get it done. Good Luck