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1. Mercury smartcraft installation install#
2. Mercury smartcraft installation update#
3. Mercury smartcraft installation full#
4. Mercury smartcraft installation pro#

Merc’s sales-sheet info appears to have model-description mistakes… In fact, the Garmin now thinks I’m using double the fuel (after all, there’s 4-sensors on two engines now), but I’ll address that more a little later…Ī brief discussion of MercMonitor models is below, something I thought quite confusing during my initial product-selection (and something even the Merc sales-sheet didn’t seem knowledgeable of):

Mercury smartcraft installation install#

Knowing what it took to install two GFS-10 sensors along with the network backbone, versus what I know now after completely installing a Mercury SmartCraft ECO MercMonitor at the helm, I never should have attempted installing fuel-flow sensors. Unfortunately, hind-sight being 20/20 as it often is, there really wasn’t any difference between the flows calculated by the 5208 or by the SmartCraft. Realization came moments after the first system-operation using the two new GFS-10 sensors, that just having two additional monitoring-points at the 5208 wasn’t all that interesting or sexy, and maybe efforts should have pursued that SmartCraft gateway I’d had my eye on months earlier… Although it took a long time to run additional network trunk wires from the bilge to the helm, I did it as part of another installation (running power/COM between the bilge and helm for satellite-TV and radar), so actual time spent wasn’t more than a few hours. So, before the start of this season, I went through the effort to install a pair of Garmin GFS-10 fuel-flow sensors. Also, I was looking for a backup-check to verify the fuel-flow data I already had from the SmartCraft. I knew Mercury had a method to get the data from their SmartCraft over to NMEA2000, called a SmartCraft Gateway, but it was considerably more expensive than just buying a couple NMEA2000 fuel-flow sensors. With the price of gasoline becoming the actual impetus to get fuel-flow data into the Garmin, the decision was made before the beginning of the 2012-season to get that data into the 5208 at all cost. The real problem historically is that Mercury SmartCraft is a proprietary CAN network technology (and to be fair, Garmin’s Marine Network is also proprietary), but the 5208 also has NMEA2000 network interfaces.

Mercury smartcraft installation update#

The firmware update 1.22 is available on the Downloads page.A closeup of the original dash, before some modifications… You need to see engines data on MFD or other NMEA 2000 instruments. The Gateway costs much less than the Mercury NMEA 2000 Gateway, VesselView Link and MercMonitor, and is a good choice if You can ask us (just drop an email after ordering) and we'll send you the Gateway already configured for SmartCraft engines. It turns the SmartCraft protocol on with support of up to four engines. For your convenience, we prepared a configuration file (click here) optimizedįor SmartCraft. This is enough for boats with one or two engines. To activate the SmartCraft protocol, you should upload the configuration file YDEG.TXT from MicroSD card with only one line: SMARTCRAFT=ON. The Gateway supports recording of CAN data to a MicroSD card, so we can investigate any The depth, sea water temperature, Pitot-based and paddle-based speed, and rudder angle are not supported yet, but they willīe added in future firmware updates. Fuel tank capacity (not transmitted over SmartCraft bus)Ĭan be specified in the Gateway settings, as well as 12-point calibration for sensor readings. Up to four engines with eight fuel tanks and four batteries are supported.

Mercury smartcraft installation full#

The full list of supported parameters is available here. Pressure, coolant temperature and pressure, engine hours, etc. The Gateway supports almost all NMEA 2000 data fields for engine and transmission, including fuel rate, oil temperature and This period without any reason and get a full refund. We are also extending the return period from 15 days to 60 daysįor all Gateways purchased in our store before November 1st with the SmartCraft adaptor cable you can return the Gateway during The Gateway only reads SmartCraft bus, so installation is safe. (VesselView, MercMonitor, SC1000), you can be sure that these data will be also available for the Gateway. If you are able to see the data on digital gauges SmartCraft CAN, but we cannot guarantee what data will be available. It is also compatible with early models that support Work with all Mercury and Mercruiser engines manufactured after 2011.

Mercury smartcraft installation pro#

The new firmware was tested with a Mercruiser 115 Pro XS (2017) and 80 EFI FourStroke (20). The adaptor is available in the Accessories section on ordering page and costs USD $39. In-line with existing equipment or the junction box. With the new firmware we are also present you SmartCraft adaptor (see the picture above) for the Gateway,Ĭontains a Y-connector for the 10-pin SmartCraft connector and allows connection with the Gateway Now with support of the SmartCraft protocol from Mercury and MerCruiser engines, the 10-pin SmartCraft Y-adaptor is in stock