Conversion analogue engine parameters to NMEA 2000

[Irish Rover]

no worries, your tech adviser is right, except you don't "steal" from the sender, you wire them at the gauge end (makes life easier as well as everything should be relatively accessible)
As I said, don't remember much and struggling with time as I just lifted my boat for the preseason maintenance and need to be back in the water in 10days, so if he checks the NoLand engineering site there should be wiring diagrams to do it. And anyway, you don't get immediate values by wiring it up, you need your laptop wired to the usb of the RS11, the engines running and mapping two points of data (I did one low one high/normal operation) which you then upload onto the RS11 and then it works. Sounds complicated but it really isn't

cheers

V.

All sorted. Thank you again for your very generous advice. Good luck with your maintenance.

 

[Irish Rover]

My technical adviser has left the crew for now. We did some repair to the analogue gauges as the glue holding the glass had perished and the glass was catching the needle on 3 of the 4 gauges. They seem to be working fine now. We did notice that the oil pressure gauges seem to be reading just over 1 bar higher when it's also connected to the RS11. This anomaly is constant with the variation obvious on the analogue gauges when we disconnect or connect while at idle or underway. I'm leaving them disconnected for now until my technical adviser figures it out.

 

[DAVAIS]

I've noticed EMU-1 from Actisense and A037 from Quark could do your job, but don't have personal experience yet.