Carpedmman
Member
Greetings from Portland, OR!
It's been a tough year so far. This Summer I was T-boned in my SUV and so spent most of the nice weather months on my back recovering.
I finally got to the boat mid-August and found my refrigerator crapped out. After cleaning that mess up, I took the boat up the Columbia river for a cruise. 3/4 of the way to our destination I have alarms going off. I pull the throttles to idle and put the gears in Neutral to assess the situation. NO GAUGES on the Port engine, nor Smartcraft readings for the Port Engine. I shut both engines off, and restart. No gauges at all on the Port side still, so I idle on to the destination to look things over in the engine compartment.
The Smartcraft system runs from the 480CE ECU to the DCM (80pin connectors for fuel level, oil pressure, temp, etc) then it goes into a J-box to join up with the Starboard engine and the information gets sent via an ethernet type cable to another J-box under the helm. Then the signal tos to two connections on the Smartcraft display and split off to the analog gauges. There are only two 15a fuses, I beleive, as part of the DCM's.
I've talked with Mercury and have all the schematics for the system and have spent nearly 2weeks searching the internet for similar issues, and talked with Sea Ray Yacht division to determine it must be a bad DCM. I bit the bullet and bought a DCM from Lake Union Sea Ray in Seattle-$1500! I installed the new DCM and now ALL gauges don't work!!!! I'm fit to be tied!
I let a few weeks pass to cool down, but still can't determine any solution. Anyone have a guess? Irma has the Palm Coast shut down to speak with some of the "older" engineers.
Help!
It's been a tough year so far. This Summer I was T-boned in my SUV and so spent most of the nice weather months on my back recovering.
I finally got to the boat mid-August and found my refrigerator crapped out. After cleaning that mess up, I took the boat up the Columbia river for a cruise. 3/4 of the way to our destination I have alarms going off. I pull the throttles to idle and put the gears in Neutral to assess the situation. NO GAUGES on the Port engine, nor Smartcraft readings for the Port Engine. I shut both engines off, and restart. No gauges at all on the Port side still, so I idle on to the destination to look things over in the engine compartment.
The Smartcraft system runs from the 480CE ECU to the DCM (80pin connectors for fuel level, oil pressure, temp, etc) then it goes into a J-box to join up with the Starboard engine and the information gets sent via an ethernet type cable to another J-box under the helm. Then the signal tos to two connections on the Smartcraft display and split off to the analog gauges. There are only two 15a fuses, I beleive, as part of the DCM's.
I've talked with Mercury and have all the schematics for the system and have spent nearly 2weeks searching the internet for similar issues, and talked with Sea Ray Yacht division to determine it must be a bad DCM. I bit the bullet and bought a DCM from Lake Union Sea Ray in Seattle-$1500! I installed the new DCM and now ALL gauges don't work!!!! I'm fit to be tied!
I let a few weeks pass to cool down, but still can't determine any solution. Anyone have a guess? Irma has the Palm Coast shut down to speak with some of the "older" engineers.
Help!