Lowrance fuel flow sensors???

[Hamish73]

has anyone used a EP60 fuel flow sensor?
Reliable?
Post your experiences please

thanks
Hamish

[honda900]

Hamish,

dont have an ep60 but have an ep10, has worked flawleslly for a year and a half now, very accurate, little bit of mucking around to get it calibrated once its done works a treat.

Regards
HOnda

[honda900]

Apparently the EP-60 is the new EP-10. So is all good..

Regards
Honda

[Hamish73]

thanks for that :) Getting a output from the mercruiser ECM was looking too hard :-/

What do you display your reading on???
NMEA 0183 or 2000??

[honda900]

Hamish,

I have a lowrance X107cdf, which is NMEA 0183 and 2000 compliant. The only issue I have with the 107 is that it is displayed in gallons, but get used to calculating that pretty quickly.

Other lowrance models have updated firmware.

Suprising how much information it is able to give you though;

Fuel used per trip, current fuel usage (Gph), fuel remaining in tank, total fuel for the season, average fuel consumption, consumption per mile + some other stuff.

It also supports multiple fuel tanks and multiple engines, so when you configure it so you can set it to suit match your boat.

Was a worthwhile investment.

by the way what are you doing with a diesel?

Regards
Honda.

[Hamish73]

by the way what are you doing with a diesel?

Regards
Honda.
huh? U've lost me there mate

thanks for the info.:)

[honda900]

Assumed your mercruiser was a diesel.

:-[

Regards
Honda

[Hamish73]

Assumed your mercruiser was a diesel.

:-[

Regards
Honda
hahaha,,,nah mate
4.3 MPI, but it is a 4 stroke! :o Just don't tell those 4 stroke outboard fanatics, I'll never live it down! ::)

[jeffrey_h]

Hey Honda,
With this wind, since Xmas and a few other reasons I havn't been out on the boat yet, so still havn't got my EP10 going.

Hamish, Never been able to get mine up on the screen at all, still trying.

Jeffrey

[Hamish73]

Hey Honda,
With this wind, since Xmas and a few other reasons I havn't been out on the boat yet, so still havn't got my EP10 going.

Hamish, Never been able to get mine up on the screen at all, still trying.

Jeffrey
bugger. I assume its on a nmea2000 bus.
Is there any other devices on the bus?
is the bus powered?

[jeffrey_h]

Yer, we set it up to the book, and again checked all settings but no luck.
Just waiting for the next time to go out, soon, and try again.
No just the sounder/gps combo.

Will try now to ring Lowrance. BRB.

Jeffrey

[jeffrey_h]

Stuff It, daylight saving, they are shut, wait till Monday!

[Hamish73]

you shouldnt need to go out to see it on the display. It should recognise that there is a probe attatched in your back yard :-/

[trev1]

Hamish, I had the same drama with my ep10 only reading in gallons when I set it to litres, but when I set it to gallons, Hey presto, reads in litres,. It may be worth a try on your unit. ( mines hooked up to a lms 332)

[honda900]

jeffrey_h,

did you end up getting this sorted?

Mine displays only in gallons, changing to litres makes no difference.

When mine was first installed in the boat it wouldnt work, the problem was that the nmea network did not have the ground connected, so it requires all three positve negative and a ground for it to work.


On my 107cdf you need to select nmea2000, then bus setup, at that point you will see that the ep10 is available, then you need to configure it from that point, set the tank size etc

this link has an attachment to the manual, looks like lowrance have been doing some work on updating the manuals.


http://www.lowrance.com/en/Support/Self-Service-Support/

Regards
HOnda

[trev1]

Just to clarify for you Honda, Mine reads gallons when set to litres and vice versa, but I did spend a bit of time mucking around with it when it changed over and I'm not sure but I think I mucked around with the units settings in the sonar as well.

[honda900]

Just to clarify for you Honda, Mine reads gallons when set to litres and vice versa, but I did spend a bit of time mucking around with it when it changed over and I'm not sure but I think I mucked around with the units settings in the sonar as well.

Ok, mine just ignores the change to litres and always displays in gallons, going in for a software update this week so it might be corrected in the with the latest update. not that it bothers me too much.

Regards
Honda

[jeffrey_h]

Hey Honda,

I rang Lowrance and he suggests the same, that it is not fully wired and told me what to do now that the EP10 is on. But since then I,ve brought a tinnie and with other jobs around the place still haven't got to look into it yet. Soon!

Will let you know.


Jeffrey