testlab
Member
- Mar 8, 2011
- 161
- Boat Info
- 1996 330DA Sundancer;
Layout A, Raymarine
C80, DSM and RD218 radar
- Engines
- Merc T-7.4L Carb
Hurth 630 V-drives
Kohler CZ23 6.5kw
I have recently purchased an LMF200 gauge and two EP60R sensors to use for fuel management purposes. The product manuals and so forth indicate I can set up three tanks and three engines. I only want to monitor two tanks and two engines.
I have set it all up on the work bench and it seems to work ok, no nmea2000 problems but the units do not work as per the manuals or as per the Lowrance website.
The boat setup page allows me to select two engines and two tanks but does not give me the option to say how big the tanks are. All it says is 'Vessel' and accepts a single figure for capacity. So I can only set it up for a totaled fuel quantity. Likewise the partial fill command does not allow adding fuel to separate tanks, just the one vessel entry.
This version of the software (2.0.0 2450) seems to allow 8 engines and 5 tanks but it isn't possible to manage the fuel quantity of each tank individually which is of course completely useless.
I have spoken to Navico here in AU and to their credit they got some new units with the same software and hooked them up to see if they could replicate the problem before I sent my units in to them.... same result as I got with mine... So it appears this version of the LMF-200 (and they tried a 400 too) cannot manage multiple tanks. They have no idea why and no idea why the manuals and so forth all say it will work. There is just no way to configure it to work.
Does anyone have an LMF-200 and two EP-60R sensors in a twin engine two tank configuration that works correctly. If so i would really appreciate if you could please let me know the software version (it's in the system info menu). Maybe I can step back to a previous version.
The EP-60r seem to be ok. I have used another two I purchased at the same time with an HDS10 and it all worked ok so it is a definite bug or problem with the latest LMF-200 gauges.
I have set it all up on the work bench and it seems to work ok, no nmea2000 problems but the units do not work as per the manuals or as per the Lowrance website.
The boat setup page allows me to select two engines and two tanks but does not give me the option to say how big the tanks are. All it says is 'Vessel' and accepts a single figure for capacity. So I can only set it up for a totaled fuel quantity. Likewise the partial fill command does not allow adding fuel to separate tanks, just the one vessel entry.
This version of the software (2.0.0 2450) seems to allow 8 engines and 5 tanks but it isn't possible to manage the fuel quantity of each tank individually which is of course completely useless.
I have spoken to Navico here in AU and to their credit they got some new units with the same software and hooked them up to see if they could replicate the problem before I sent my units in to them.... same result as I got with mine... So it appears this version of the LMF-200 (and they tried a 400 too) cannot manage multiple tanks. They have no idea why and no idea why the manuals and so forth all say it will work. There is just no way to configure it to work.
Does anyone have an LMF-200 and two EP-60R sensors in a twin engine two tank configuration that works correctly. If so i would really appreciate if you could please let me know the software version (it's in the system info menu). Maybe I can step back to a previous version.
The EP-60r seem to be ok. I have used another two I purchased at the same time with an HDS10 and it all worked ok so it is a definite bug or problem with the latest LMF-200 gauges.
