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@Vick da Aerbus

VE.Can/N2K are virtually the same, thus it doesn't matter where you terminate the network, ie. a VE.Can terminator at the last MPPT and another terminator at the N2K end.

You can use a VE.Can to NMEA 2000 micro-C male cable as a drop cable.

I have that, and more, all working great. 1) I put in THIS usb hub and connected each of my 3 MPPT's and USB-Bluetooth to that hub. I then connected that hub to Cerbo (using yet another of the expensive cables) so on Cerbo there is a VEdirect connection that ties in all MPPT's, as well as my bluetooth adapter. In effect, all my VEdirect stuff is in parallel; I chose NOT to daisychain. You will need THESE expensive USB-VeDirect cables; one for each MPPT and another to Cerbo. 2) Across the top of Cerbo, I use (2) VeDirect ports. Leftmost goes to BVM-712, next is the connection to USB port. The Ve.Can has 2 ports, left is Seelevel, right is terminator. Rightmost connections: one is regular Cat5 computer cable to Multiplus, other is regular Cat5 to my network hub. Note: with the network hub, I can access my Cerbo from any laptop/ipad/desktop/phone etc. via the IP address of Cerbo.

HTH, Tom

As Stephanie suggested, connecting your MPPTs and the SeeLevel to the same bus should work fine. CANbus is a parallel connection, terminated at the far ends of the bus. For SeeLevel, you need to adapt an RJ-45 to the little 4-pin connector. If the termination ends up with SeeLevel, fitting a termination resistor into that connector can be done but it's best handled in the wiring before that connector.

Using the cable Stephanie referenced gets you to a standard NEMA 2000 connector which you'd still need to adapt to the SeeLevel connector, and find a place for the termination resistor. You can use NEMA 2000 taps, terminators, etc to make the necessary connections:

https://www.amazon.com/Garmin-010-11078-00-NMEA-2000-T-connector/dp/B0017VTAL6?th=1

https://www.amazon.com/Female-Terminators-Terminating-Lowrance-Networks/dp/B086VCRBXP

If you prefer, you can add a USB CANbus adapter to your system to sepratete the SeeLevel N2K on it's own bus. Any adapter that uses GS USB should work fine. Note that some CANbus adapters use slcan and those are known to be unreliable and won't work plug-and-play.

The built-in and GS USB CANbus adapters should work plug-and-play but there could be issues with ports moving around as they are numbered in order of discovery.

VeCanSetup can be used to activate an slcan interface or to allow naming of all CANbus ports and avoiding discovery order issues.

https://github.com/kwindrem/VeCanSetup