Swift Trawler/Volvo

EddieBlue

EddieBlue

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Hi everyone, I am new here so please bear with me. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif We took delivery of a Beneteau Swift Trawler 42 with twin D4 Volvo 300 Hp's in July.

On our last boats the Volvo equipment would show us the data from the engine and most importantly fuel use and expect range at the speed we were making.

What is the general consensus for retro fitting the Raymarine and the Volvo interface to allow me to access this information on the Raymarine? I have been told the cost is about £500 which I am happy to pay if I am going to benefit.

Any advice please?

Eddie
 
I dont know what needs to be done. There were some issues with the IPS D6 boats last year when interfaced with Raymarine autopilots so it might be worth checking.

DO you not have the little lcd displays under the rev counters that will give this information? Or are they just a little far away?

Great boat by the way. I think the ST42 is probably the best thing Beneteau make right now and it is very much on my 'some day' list /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Eddie,

My quote from the VP agent was £1400 (£700 per engine). I would have done it for £500 but £1400 is too much. I would never make it back in fuel saved etc.
 
Welcome Eddieblue
I have D4s and Raymarine equipment, I was quoted nearer £1500 for the data to display on the E series, its a little cheaper to used Volvo displays. I asked about the lcd display on the tachcos but they didn't think it would work.
I still want to know my mpg and most economic speed, but @ £1500, you got to make some savings to justify, range would be useful though.
Not sure how the diesel heating effects it either......
 
The tacho displays don't show the fuel consumption unless the optional software is installed to enable this. Like others, I was quoted about £1k to have this added to the P42.

Cheers
Jimmy
 
Thing is if you want fuel data other than simple GPH you need to fit an NMEA 2000 sensor to the fuel filler and sender as well as the Volvo J1939 to NMEA2000 converter, I did it last year to interface with my C120. The Volvo part was sourced stateside at around ¼ what was being asked here and I used devicenet cabling which is all NMEA200 stuff is anyway for the interface cos the Raymarine cabling stuff was about £300 on it's own , at the same time installed an NMEA backbone for easy upgrade of instrumentation and sensors later. From memory all the bits came to less than £300.00. The Raymarine short adapter cable to attach to the Volvo box was about 80 quid on its own for a short cable with a different plug each end, bonkers.
There are some brand new Volvo EVC displays on fleabay in the US for daft money at the moment BTW.
 
Eddie,

Have this fitted to boat which has 2 x D6 Volvo engines and 2 x E80 and 1 x E120 displays. Main plus's for me are the fuel consumption (litres/hr) and having engine monitoring up on flybridge.

Had the Volvo NMEA2000 box fitted by factory during build in France (one black box?) and when Raymarine system retro-fitted in UK they hooked it up to displays. Remember there was lots of discussion between Raymarine and Volvo about the right way to do it in terms of bus cabling etc. Think in 2006 this was new to them perhaps?

Def. worth having - at the right price of course!
 
Thanks for all of the information, Sorry I have been tardy about replying but I have been away for a while (not in the boat unfortunately)

I have asked for a firm quote and if it is'nt stupid I think I will get it done. As SpiderDiver said having engine monitoring on the Flybridge is a plus.

I had it on my Doral Boca Grande (still for sale if anyone wants to buy a six month old one!) and did find the information very useful, albeit that the display was LCD in the bottom of the tacho

Cheers

Eddie
 
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