NMEA 2000 conversion nightmare


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Braviseamo

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I am having one helluva time getting this done. Here is the situation. I have an 06 280ss, with twin 6.2 horizon bravo 3's. according to Mercruiser tech, they are Smartcraft capable and can be converted to display Nmea 2k engine data. It was working on a basic analog only system. I have had a professional installer, install a Garmin 741, Mercmonitor and a garmin transducer with the mission of getting digital engine data on the Garmin. In my first discussion with Merc about this they said no problem, install a gateway and plug it into your nmea2k network and data will show up, but the engines needed to be reprogrammed for starboard and port as both of them shipped as starboard engines. Call number 2 to merc, you will also need a merc monitor gauge because this gauge converts the data to nmea 2k. Call number 3, after the installation has been completed....the engines need to be reprogrammed to make this work and by the way none of your analog gauges will work once this is done. Has anyone in this forum, successfully added a merc monitor and do your analog gauges still work? Did any other unforeseen problems get created, like are my throttles going to stop working now?
 
Update to the nightmare. If you live in South Florida, I would advise that you think twice about using Marine Electronics Installers. They installed everything in my boat and nothing worked. In addition, during the install, they shorted out the relay for the engine hatch. They have removed all installed equipment and provided a full refund. Back to the drawing board.
 
Braviseamo said:
I am having one helluva time getting this done. Here is the situation. I have an 06 280ss, with twin 6.2 horizon bravo 3's. according to Mercruiser tech, they are Smartcraft capable and can be converted to display Nmea 2k engine data. It was working on a basic analog only system. I have had a professional installer, install a Garmin 741, Mercmonitor and a garmin transducer with the mission of getting digital engine data on the Garmin. In my first discussion with Merc about this they said no problem, install a gateway and plug it into your nmea2k network and data will show up, but the engines needed to be reprogrammed for starboard and port as both of them shipped as starboard engines. Call number 2 to merc, you will also need a merc monitor gauge because this gauge converts the data to nmea 2k. Call number 3, after the installation has been completed....the engines need to be reprogrammed to make this work and by the way none of your analog gauges will work once this is done. Has anyone in this forum, successfully added a merc monitor and do your analog gauges still work? Did any other unforeseen problems get created, like are my throttles going to stop working now?
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Sorry I did not see this before....

I did, but was not able to integrate to my main MFD (E80 in my case).

I have 2 separate smartcraft computers that give me most of what I want. But you are already past that...

Should have nothing to do with throttles, as they are not computer operated (at least I don't think they are on your boat)

In fact when I did my research, this is what I was told I would need, so I bowed out, it was too much $$ for the NMEA Gateway gauges. Meaning I would have to replace all my gauges.

I ended up with the System Monitor instead...
 

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Rather then dealing with the nightmare of having to reconfigure the engine ecm's to port and stbd, have u seen the Actisense emu-1? Will convert all of your analog data to nmea 2000
 
bad habit said:
Rather then dealing with the nightmare of having to reconfigure the engine ecm's to port and stbd, have u seen the Actisense emu-1? Will convert all of your analog data to nmea 2000
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Mmm, interesting, took a quick look and I did not totally understand all this connects, requires a bit more reading for sure!
 
Braviseamo said:
Update to the nightmare. If you live in South Florida, I would advise that you think twice about using Marine Electronics Installers. They installed everything in my boat and nothing worked. In addition, during the install, they shorted out the relay for the engine hatch. They have removed all installed equipment and provided a full refund. Back to the drawing board.
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You are in SoFL?

Who would you recommend?
 
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