DAME Awards, Navionics &…
Congratulations to Navionics for winning the DAME Design Award (marine-related software category) with Navionics Mobile. And it turns out there’s going to be more to this product than I first understood…
Category: Electrical & Engines
MerCruiser Axius Premier, skyhooked
Finessing the MerCruiser Axius joystick is Amanda Marsten, who probably never foresaw this as part of her gig at…
Fuel management 6, Lowrance LMF-400
Lowrance’s LMF-400 is one impressive NMEA 2000 gauge, and I should have included it in my N2K instrument round up. On the above “fuel management” screen it’s totaling the flows of the…
Fuel management 5, Northstar & Smartcraft
Mad Mariner just polled 400 U.S. boat owners about how they’re handling goosed up fuel prices, and the results are depressing. Though not terribly surprising, which is why I’ve gotten so keen on fuel management (part four is here, and you can work back). Actually it was years ago that I first saw the benefits of combining…
Fuel management 4, Maretron N2KView
Remember Maretron’s N2KView? I tried the initial version last fall, and later wrote a column about the whole concept of packetizing NMEA 2000 data. Recently I’ve been testing Version 2.0 and can tell you that it’s faster, prettier, and more configurable—better in every way. Perhaps more important, though, is Maretron’s recent decision to…
Fuel management 3, Yanmar & Raymarine
Demonstrated at the Miami Boat Show, and scheduled to ship this Fall, Yanmar’s Smart Check looks like a gem of an engine monitoring system. You will need to have one or more Yanmar diesels with electronic interfaces and a NMEA 2000 connection to a Raymarine E-120, plus about $800 for the software (loaded into the E from a CF card), but, wow, you even get detailed alarms with trouble-shooting suggestions, and a maintenance log with reminders. And of course the gauges are…
Fuel management 2, FloScan
Consider this test a work in progress! (Bigger photo here.) Those are two FlowNet N2K interface boxes that FlowScan loaned me with built-in simulation of something like a big sportfishing boat blasting along on a plane. I can…
Fuel management part one, Garmin
My first screen shots of Slancha’s Garmin 18” HD radar drew a lot of interest and I look forward to more experimenting with it later this week, but the real subject of the shot above, and this entry, is the fuel management information shown on the bottom bar…
FloScan, doing N2K right
FloScan has been measuring fuel flow for over 30 years, so I’d guess they have a darn good idea how to do it. It’s refreshing that their new NMEA 2000 Diesel Monitoring System focuses on what they know well and let’s the resulting data go wherever you want…
Xtreme Marine, pulse charging
I’ve been testing this PulseTech Xtreme Marine 12v “five-stage maintenance” charger for a month or so, and am impressed…
