Smartcraft - Alarm Reset???

[Mfortune]

Here's the set up....

My wife and I left the 3 kids home for a nice relaxing weekend on the boat....Smartcrafts alarm sucked a lot of that relaxing out of the weekend...:smt013.. It seems that my Smartcraft alarm might be stuck on stupid...at least that is the way I felt by the end of the trip
The alarm goes off (2 beeps every few minutes), but there is no fault shown on the screen. After doing a master reset the starboard engine the alarm continues and now shows "fault starboard fuel tank" Our '04 280 sundancer (4.3's with Alpha 1's) does not have a starboard fuel tank. The single tank is monitored through the port gauges. Here are a few other details....

• When you switch the starboard ignition to the run position, where the alarm usually sounds once, it is now followed by a second beep - even before you start the engine.
• All of the fluids are within normal ranges and the engine feels right to the touch when at operating speed.
• Two weeks ago, the starboard engine quit when idling...I thought the IAC was going bad, but the engine started right back up and has run fine since. Does Smartcraft monitor the IAC???
• Does anyone know the proper procedure for doing a master reset on a twin engine system. Reset both engine systems then reset the center (main??) Does it matter what order you reset the gauges??

Thanks for any help...We have a trip planned for this weekend with the kids and I'm not sure I can deal with that alarm going off again like it did last weekend......

 

[Dave S]

Did you check your outdrive gear lube reservoirs to be sure they are not too low?

If you have no Smartcraft alarm messages, then you need to get a Technician to look at it with his scanner. It becomes a crap-shoot if you try and figure it out yourself. I do know from personal experience that a bad IAC and low outdrive fluid will give you an alarm but no message. A bad IAC or clogged IAC Muffler usually means the engine will not idle so that one is as easy to figure out as the low drive fluid. But everything else is just a guess without a scanner.

Dave

 

[Mfortune]

The outdrive fluid level fine, and the engine idles/runs fine. I read somewhere that the float in the resivoir can get stuck, so I'll check, but it just seems odd..