Evinrude iCommand - which £500 plotter to accompany?

Paul E · 13 July 2011, 16:08

I've just bought a 2009 Evinrude 200 HO with 2 of the 3.5" iCommand gauges and a Lowrance GPS antenna. What chartplotters at around the £500 mark are compatible with this? It's for my race boat so would be useful to have things like water pressure and temp on the plotter for my navigator to worry about, while I have revs, trim and speed on the gauges my side.

Any recommendations?

Pikey Dave · 13 July 2011, 16:34

For starters the plotter needs to be NMEA2000 compliant. Lowrance probably offer the best integration as they were leaders in developing N2K & the Evinrude gauges are rebadged lowrance units. The Lowrance route also allows you to upgrade the i-command gauge firmware via the Lowrance plotter. To get water pressure you will need to add a water pressure sensor to your engine if it hasn't got one already, they don't come as standard. A memory module will give you the full fuel manager functions.

Paul E · 13 July 2011, 16:42

Great thanks Dave. Any idea of the price of a pressure sensor? I'm running a hydraulic lifter with a lot of travel so it's very important I know, especially during the initial testing and set up of the rig

Pikey Dave · 13 July 2011, 16:56

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Great thanks Dave. Any idea of the price of a pressure sensor?

IIRC £45 ish

Markyboyo · 13 July 2011, 17:32

Water pressure sensors and memory modules can be had here.

ribstuff - I-Command Digital

Don't know how prices compare to elsewhere but Ribstuff are probably the cheapest place in the uk to het hold of XD100 if thats what you are running in the new motor

Mark.

Markyboyo · 13 July 2011, 17:33

Unless you live in the channel islands and don't have to pay Vat obviously....Doh.

gotchiguy · 13 July 2011, 20:42

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Unless you live in the channel islands and don't have to pay Vat obviously....Doh.

Nope, still is cheaper at Ribstuff

Paul E · 15 July 2011, 13:22

Thanks for the help guys, probably going to go for a Lowrance HDS 7M, found one for a great price

Channel Ribs · 15 July 2011, 13:26

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Originally Posted by Paul E

Thanks for the help guys, probably going to go for a Lowrance HDS 7M, found one for a great price

Better than 595.00?

Paul E · 16 July 2011, 18:49

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Originally Posted by Channel Ribs

Better than 595.00?

if that includes the relevant mapping for the Channel Islands and French north coast then no, not better than that... Just found out they're an extra £179!

Channel Ribs · 17 July 2011, 07:30

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Originally Posted by Paul E

if that includes the relevant mapping for the Channel Islands and French north coast then no, not better than that... Just found out they're an extra £179!

Not sure about including, but we can do a small region Navionics SD card for 90 quid

In small there is one that covers us and extends East, or one that goes West.