Evinrude E-Link, one leg of a generous open architecture attitude

Ben Ellison

Ben Ellison

Panbo editor, publisher & chief bottlewasher from 4/2005 until 8/2018, and now pleased to have Ben Stein as a very able publisher, webmaster, and editing colleague. Please don't regard him as an "expert"; he's getting quite old and thinks that "fadiddling fumble-putz" is a more accurate description.

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  1. By the way, we have recently added support of BRP Rotax engines (BRP CAN protocol) to our Engine Gateway: http://www.yachtd.com/news/#26102016
    I think it is unique solution for engines of previous generation, like BRP Rotax 1503.
    Yacht Devices Engine Gateway is gateway for Volvo Penta EVC, BRP Rotax and J1939 engines to NMEA 2000 marine electronics network. It will provide you with engine revolutions, motor hours, coolant temperature, battery voltage, warning and alarms, fuel rate and other data on the screen of NMEA 2000 chart plotter.
    WBR,
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    Yacht Devices Ltd.
    http://www.yachtd.com

  2. Chris says:

    Hello Mr. Ellison,
    I read your article about:
    Evinrude E-Link, one leg of a generous open architecture attitude… written for Panbo by Ben Ellison and posted on Jul 4, 2016
    In the bottom you mention this:
    “Except that all of the E-Link and Icon Touch functionality may soon come to that Garmin screen above and/or other brand MFDs because Evinrude is apparently making that possibility quite easy!”
    I would love some advice if you have time…..
    I have a new Evinrude 150 h/p going on a new 19 foot heavy gauge Aluminum boat. I am at the point I need to order gauges. I prefer analogue style gauges but thought I had to upgrade to ICON Touchscreen to be able to adjust power steering and i-trim. I will also need to get GPS/Chartplotter/Fishfinder. I am rigging the boat from scratch, so I can go any way I want. It will have digital controls and NMEA 2000.
    Has there been any progress with Evinrude->Garmin to be able to display and change engine settings using a Chartplotter screen ? I also thought of using a GPS tablet for maps and possibly to display the Evinrude e-link app. However I assume tablets are not good fishfinders?
    Any suggestions from you would be appreciated.
    Thank you,
    Chris

  3. Oliver says:

    Hi,
    Does the e link works on the etec 50hp build 2014?

    • Ben Ellison Ben Ellison says:

      Hi Oliver, E-Link only works with E-Tec G2 outboards and, frankly. I’m not even sure it’s still available. I don’t know what happened to the product, but I see no mention of it at Evinrude anymore.

      However, your 2014 E-Tec 50 G1 can output a lot of information over NMEA 2000 but you may not be seeing it unless it was set up with an Icon Pro Series Tach and/or an N2K network connection to any gauge or MFD that can display engine data. I just did this myself with a E-Tec 115 G1 and the improvement over the Systemcheck gauges that came with the boat is pretty amazing. I will write about it soon. More info here:

      https://www.evinrude.com/en-US/rigging-and-parts/gauges.html

      http://continuouswave.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=10

  4. Oliver says:

    Hi Ben,
    Thank you very much for the fast reply! I appreciate it.
    I will go check out the forum on continuouswave.com to check documentation of the E-Link. I found some articles explaining connecting the E-Link to NMEA connector on the G1 models.

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