Volvo hour counter (for want of a better description)

tangerine said:
I seem to recall somewhere on here some while ago a company was suggested who can cure the niggling prob of fading digits display . Anyone help?
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I have a detailed pdf file how to renew the hour display but can not upload it as it keeps saying it is to big of a file. I can email it to you if you pm me your email address. I have completed the changing of the digital display several times for my self and freinds its not too taxing.
 
jamie langstone said:
I have a detailed pdf file how to renew the hour display but can not upload it as it keeps saying it is to big of a file. I can email it to you if you pm me your email address. I have completed the changing of the digital display several times for my self and freinds its not too taxing.
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This is one of my winter jobs - Seabridge Marine do the replacement displays for £27 and provide instructions, however nobody can confirm if they keep the original hours. Has this been the case with the ones you have replaced?
 
Bbroomlea said:
This is one of my winter jobs - Seabridge Marine do the replacement displays for £27 and provide instructions, however nobody can confirm if they keep the original hours. Has this been the case with the ones you have replaced?
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They do not keep the original hours that the old one displays when fitting .But all you have to do before fitting is power the replacement with a 12v supply for the required amount of hours that were on the old display so that you can keep the original hours when installed. I hope this makes sense.
 
boatone said:
Mine are invisible most of the time but sometimes come on but are flickering, why would that be? Seem to be counting hours tho ...
Where do they pick up the sensing from?
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The hour counter is within the liquid crystal display. It continues to count the hours that the ignition key is on and 12 volts is supplied.
I have no less than 4 hour counters on my new (to me) twin engined boat. Three of them work okay.
The one VP hour counter on my previous single engined boat showed a reading occasionally. There was no need to fix it as the boat was fitted with a separate meter made by 'Curtis'. The Curtis meter was 100% reliable. It probably cost less than the repair display for the VP hour counter.

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MartynG said:
I have no less than 4 hour counters on my new (to me) twin engined boat. Three of them work okay.
The one VP hour counter on my previous single engined boat showed a reading occasionally.
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I often wonder why, on our boat, Fairline felt it necessary to replicate the hour meters on the flybridge, but not the temperature and fuel indicators - much more important, in my view. I guess the answer is cost given the hour meters only need to see the 12v going to other engine instruments whereas the other two need additional wiring.
 
EugeneR said:
I often wonder why, on our boat, Fairline felt it necessary to replicate the hour meters on the flybridge, but not the temperature and fuel indicators - much more important, in my view. I guess the answer is cost given the hour meters only need to see the 12v going to other engine instruments whereas the other two need additional wiring.
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Additional wiring is there you just need to find it for the oil, temp, volts, boost, gearbox pressure etc.
 
A word of caution if you send them to Speedy Cables!

I sent mine away when the boat was lifted at the start of February and eventually, after chasing by phone many many many times i got them back in June!

I was told it would take 6-8 weeks for the refurbishment, not over 4 months!

Cost was £278.40 inc VAT and postage for a pair.

It looks like they have done a lovely job but as we needed the boat and whilst promises were forthcoming but the tachos were not i bought two brand new ones from Volvo so I could actually use the boat and get my boating season underway.

Had I known how long the refurb was actually going to take I would not have bothered, I would have either got an auxiliary hours meter or just bought new Volvo units in the first place.
 
CaptainMike1970 said:
A word of caution if you send them to Speedy Cables!

I sent mine away when the boat was lifted at the start of February and eventually, after chasing by phone many many many times i got them back in June!

I was told it would take 6-8 weeks for the refurbishment, not over 4 months!

Cost was £278.40 inc VAT and postage for a pair.

It looks like they have done a lovely job but as we needed the boat and whilst promises were forthcoming but the tachos were not i bought two brand new ones from Volvo so I could actually use the boat and get my boating season underway.

Had I known how long the refurb was actually going to take I would not have bothered, I would have either got an auxiliary hours meter or just bought new Volvo units in the first place.
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Hmm. You must have been unlucky, I've had excellent service from them.
 
volvopaul said:
Hmm. You must have been unlucky, I've had excellent service from them.
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I seem to remember using them last year and several months later and a lot of chasing they said they were repaired and would return them to me, when they didn't work they told me they were not repairable, the fault was not hour clocks but he tachos themselves, had they have been honest in the first place it would have saved me a lot of explaining to my customer.
 
volvopaul said:
Hmm. You must have been unlucky, I've had excellent service from them.
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I've sent them two web inquiries and an email and have heard nothing back from any of them. I called and a lady said just to pop them in the post and if they can be repaired she would let me know when they can. I was not convinced by their uncertainty and lack of responses they actually knew what to do!
 
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