LCD Hours displays

[Cymraeg]

Does anyone know if there's a way to 'encourage' the LCD hours display to work if it's disinclined to show the engine hours? Standard gauges as fitted to Volvo engines on Sealine/Fairline/Princess boats ..... been to see a few where the displays are very faint, and now found a boat where the display ...... err, doesn't! Any little 'tricks of the trade' as it were to establish engine hours?

Thanks.

 

[Seadee]

They're a real pain, eh ? Mine occasionally has the gitters when I'm at low revs, then when I open the old girl up, bingo, stable as you like. Mine's a Nanni. Guess we all get a bit flakey from time to time. I think mines partly to do with condensation/damp in the back 'cos it only happens in the cold weather.

Doesn't help you though !!

CD

 

[pau1gray]

Need to get this as a sticky thread or something as it appears every couple of week - particularly in the winter.

The Volvo rev counter has a problem in the damp where the LCD display fails. The hours are still logged but just not displayed.

Forum solution seems to be to put the unit in the airing cupboard for a while and hey presto numbers come back when the damp has disappeared.

Hope this helps.

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

If it's an edc or evc engine you can get the definitive hours from the black box using the Vodia tool.

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[enterprise]

Great, I thought it was just mine & have been looking to find a loose connection somewhere.
Might get SWMBO 's hairdrier on them & see, thanks for the info.

 

[Cymraeg]

Ah, should've made it clear that it were a potential purchase I was going to look at, so whipping it out for a session in the airing cupboard might not be an option. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif And they're not black box jobs either, unfortunately, standard cable control TAMD63P's. Is it normal for 4 of the blighters to go, though, both upstairs and downstairs on a flybridge boat? S'pose condensation's the killer!

Cheers.

 

[paulrh]

hi
before putting the sealine 330f in one of my workshops the hour counters were on one day and of the next, since its been in the workshop with a heater in the cabin the counters are clear as day, so i think the older they are they feel the cold just like there owners.

Paul

 

[Doods]

Havent seen my display since early November. Expect them back around April.

 

[rafiki_]

I have the same issue on my Sunline with Merc 1.7 Diesels. They don't like the cold.

 

[Blackfeather]

You would think after all these years that Volvo would have sussed that boats get cold and damp wouldn't you?

 

[Chris_d]

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You would think after all these years that Volvo would have sussed that boats get cold and damp wouldn't you?

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ahh but replacement tacho's are very profitable /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[rafiki_]

It gets cold in Sweden...............but not as damp as the UK!!