EVC problem

[Coupe]

Having a spot of bother with EVC on SV2.

Seeing as our friendly Volvo chap has left the marina I thought I'd run it past you guys in the hope it is something small which I can have fixed locally.

Problem is with Starboard control on flybridge only.

Port is OK as are both controls at the lower helm.

Of course the problem came to light when I was about 10m away from the dock - bloddy typical.

Problem started when selecting forward gear from idle - nothing happened. OK in reverse, throttle lever feels normal etc. Thing is, push the lever a little more and she pops into gear.

OK, I thought I could live with this for a while giving me time to seek professionel help.

This morning, when leaving the berth everything worked normally and I helmed her around and out the channel without any trouble.

Later in the afternoon, when leaving an anchorage with Mrs SV at the lower helm, I tried to transfer drive to the flybridge but EVC would only let me have Port side.

I tried a few times to no avail - Port only on Fly or Port & Starboard from inside.

I headed back towards base from inner helm when I thought I'd turn off the engines, knock off the ignition and the trip switches.

I then switched everything back on and hey presto - i'ts all working again.

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As we're heading off in a few days to North Wales and hopefully South West Ireland to follow, it would be nice to have everything 100%

Boat is 20 months old by the way.

 

[Kawasaki]

Bleedin obvious Mate.
Son Vida is obviously frustrated.
Messing about, posing for the Web Cams (so's peeps in three legged land can blimp You) and mucking about in Dublin bay etc etc.
She wants to shove out to Sea.
She's raring to go and fiddling about with throttle controls and such like is like holding a thoroughbred back.
Head East, WOT, go for it.
Oh! and by the way.
"Having a bit of bother with EVC on SV2"?
Toss the Begger over the side I say.

 

[admillington]

I would start by unplugging and reconnecting all the connectors starting from the Flybridge down.

 

[Will_M]

Maybe as simple as the throttle potentiometer in the throttle levers assemble itself, they have been known to give up the ghost.

 

[Will_M]

Did you see any ‘pop-ups’ in the tacho display, ie any fault codes displayed?

You know you view logged fault codes from the main menu, assuming a fault has been registered. When your in the main menu mode you select ‘faults’ by pushing the navigation wheel, any faults appear in a stored list, you scroll through said faults. The ‘pop-ups’ will alternate between ‘case of fault’ and ‘any action to take’.

Fault codes are erased when next the starter key is turned to the stop, so it’s the kinda of thing you need to check when a fault occurs. Although when the system voltage is switched back on the diagnostic function runs checks to see if there are any new faults in the system, if there is it will flash up a new ‘pop-up’.

There is a fault function in the faults codes that covers control lever failure and control lever calibration.

Worth a check through the system.

 

[cataldo]

hi,if you pm me ill give you a volvo chap from belfasts phone no,hes very good.

 

[Coupe]

Hey Kwacker mate /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Go and dust down the depth gauge - we're coming in /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Coupe]

Heading down there now so I will give it a go.

Many thanks.

 

[Coupe]

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Maybe as simple as the throttle potentiometer in the throttle levers assemble itself, they have been known to give up the ghost.


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Jeez, thanks for that Funsize.

I won't take it apart though as I tend to have bits left over when I mess about. I will show the diagram to the local boffin and see what he thinks.

Many thanks.

 

[Coupe]

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Did you see any ‘pop-ups’ in the tacho display, ie any fault codes displayed?

You know you view logged fault codes from the main menu, assuming a fault has been registered. When your in the main menu mode you select ‘faults’ by pushing the navigation wheel, any faults appear in a stored list, you scroll through said faults. The ‘pop-ups’ will alternate between ‘case of fault’ and ‘any action to take’.


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Yip, noticed the fault light and armed with the manual I pressed the "D" button but no blinking - light stayed on.

All gone now as you said due to killing the ignition.

Sods law says that problem won't rear it's ugly head again until I'm about to berth.

Thanks for the advise - much appreciated.

 

[Coupe]

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hi,if you pm me ill give you a volvo chap from belfasts phone no,hes very good.

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PM sent.

Thank you.

 

[Renegade_Master]

happened on a P61 I was skippering last year stb fly throttle push forward no tick over quick further push forward into tick over, very strange had to do a full charter with her like that. The owner had a engineer fix it so cant help with the solution sorry

 

[Coupe]

That's the one.

What a great forum this is. I have had a number of PM's from peeps who seem to know what their on about.

Hopefully we can get it sorted before we head off East this weekend.

Sincere thanks to all who replied.

SV2.