anyone tried a mercmonitor?

[Miller]

Has anyone tried a mercury Merc Monitor on their engine? Is it a gimmick or does it display useful information? I cant find much out about them;whats the difference between a level 1 and a level 2? Is the eco screen worthwhile?

Does anybody know the price of them?I cant find any pricing either apart from US sites.

Thanks

[Turbodiesel]

Hello,

Talk to Martini we fitted one on his Rib, they are not cheap price to you would be £711.25 inc vat.
Click the link for more info

MercMonitor | Mercury Marine

[uncle al]

as the moniter fits nearly all the four stroke and optimaxs except verado and the there are a lot of sustems that are not applicable to the opti you can switch them of , the level 1 and 2 are for setting up the moniter

[Miller]

is that for the all singing all dancing one with nmea?

[Miller]

what do you mean by setting up the monitor?

[uncle al]

you have to go through the differant settings an example is say for an opti you would switch of the oil preasure cos it aint got any cos its a two stroke , just go through the gauge functions switching on or of as req

[Miller]

Originally Posted by uncle al

you have to go through the differant settings an example is say for an opti you would switch of the oil preasure cos it aint got any cos its a two stroke , just go through the gauge functions switching on or of as req

So do you want a level 1 or 2 for an opti?

[uncle al]

level 1 is your basic setting ie time illumination that sort of settings, level2 is down to the nitty grity fuel temp ect BUT if the sensors are not there obviously there will be nothing to read on the gauge

[Miller]

does the opti have all that info? Which would you recommend? I was looking at the eco monitor thing on it

[martini]

Originally Posted by Turbodiesel

Hello,

Talk to Martini we fitted one on his Rib, they are not cheap price to you would be £711.25 inc vat.
Click the link for more info

MercMonitor | Mercury Marine

1st one in the uk and what a waste of money!

It doesn't really tell you anything the SC1000 gauges don't. I only really bought it to act as an N2K gateway so I could display engine and fuel data on my garmin mfd and it doesn't do that particularly well either.

If you want a larger display than the SC1000 then the "vessel view" is probably better

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[Miller]

so the eco view thing is pointless?thats saved me a few quid then!!

[martini]

Doesn't take long to figure out your boats best cruising speed, smart craft will tell you your litres per hour etc anyway. So yes, pretty pointless!

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[Miller]

but...it does do a range of colours...thats pretty funky!!

[martini]

£700 worth of funkiness??

[Turbodiesel]

Originally Posted by martini

1st one in the uk and what a waste of money!

It doesn't really tell you anything the SC1000 gauges don't. I only really bought it to act as an N2K gateway so I could display engine and fuel data on my garmin mfd and it doesn't do that particularly well either.

If you want a larger display than the SC1000 then the "vessel view" is probably better

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I totally agree i would go for the Vessel view its much better!!

[Miller]

and how much is that?probably more

[Cookee]

Originally Posted by martini

I only really bought it to act as an N2K gateway so I could display engine and fuel data on my garmin mfd and it doesn't do that particularly well either.

That's disappointing! Is that due to the information coming out of your motors? Would it be better running on Verado's or inboards with more data do you think?

[Turbodiesel]

The Verado does show more info, but i have been looking into the prices today, if you want a non N2K gateway gauge it is about £180 which does most things you would ever need.

[martini]

Originally Posted by Cookee

That's disappointing! Is that due to the information coming out of your motors? Would it be better running on Verado's or inboards with more data do you think?

That wasn't really a fair statement I suppose. The merc monitor will export all the available data from the engine(s). How much you see and how it's displayed is down to the mfd obviously. What annoyed me about the merc monitor was the info displayed on itself. Even though I bought the multiple engine version, you have to select one engine or the other as the master and the monitor only displays data from that engine.

I had a SC1000 speedo in place before I replaced with the merc monitor, along with 2 SC1000 tachometers. Normally when underway I'd have rpm's displayed on the tachometers and trim of both engines on the speedo. Now I can only see the trim of one engine on the merc monitor so I use it to show trip data instead but have to scroll through the screens on the tachometers to get trim values which really annoys me, I want to see trim all the time.

[Cookee]

Originally Posted by martini

That wasn't really a fair statement I suppose. The merc monitor will export all the available data from the engine(s). How much you see and how it's displayed is down to the mfd obviously. What annoyed me about the merc monitor was the info displayed on itself. Even though I bought the multiple engine version, you have to select one engine or the other as the master and the monitor only displays data from that engine.

I had a SC1000 speedo in place before I replaced with the merc monitor, along with 2 SC1000 tachometers. Normally when underway I'd have rpm's displayed on the tachometers and trim of both engines on the speedo. Now I can only see the trim of one engine on the merc monitor so I use it to show trip data instead but have to scroll through the screens on the tachometers to get trim values which really annoys me, I want to see trim all the time.

It's not configurable as a pop up like the vessel view? A big error in the programming I think!