Hi Naki

I have been looking at the Navman also. They are the best option I think. A standard fuel gauge won't give you all the info a computor can. Also enables you to find your optomin running speed. I also look forward to others comments.

Dino

http://www.navman.com/

Heres a site you might like to visit..........

Yamaha also do a fuel monitoring module for their outboards - an extra guage that looks like the tacho and the speedo (now there's a seriously useless bit of kit). My experience with mine is the same as Lethal's with his Merc - bloody good. Accurate to within 2-3% and you can correct this by fiddling around with a few DIP switches on the back. From memory it was about $200 extra when I bought the engine - worth every cent. If I was doing it again I would have left the speedo off and had the fuel bizzo instead and insisted the price was $0. You can also retro fit it it onto any reasonably recent Yammie motor.

obald

Naki,

I have a 2001 200hp HPDI that does have the digital gauges but I would have thought (and this is a guess, not informed comment) that a simlar vintage 4 stroke should be no problem. If your local dealer is in 'ashtray on a motorbike mode' may I suggest contacting Yamaha (either NZ or USA) by email for feasiblity or talking to them at the Boatshow in a few weeks if you are coming up for that. Its dead easy to fit - just goes into the fuel line, but it must be mounted and fixed to stay as horizontal as possible. I had mine loose for a bit and just shoved it back in the lazarette any old how and it went mental. Bolted to the transom level - no probs again.

obald

FUEL MANAGEMENT GAUGE
The Yamaha Fuel Management Gauge monitors:

I certainly paid nothing like US$593.55 for my 6Y5-W0088-53-00 (as I always call it). That's certainly him in Lethal's picture and equally certainly that was not his price. A ferret around at the Boat Show sounds just the job, Naki

obald

Hi Mr MM,

I'm sure you don't do the rest of your boating in kilometres - why don't you change your guage to nautical miles with a little bit of DIP switch fiddling? It will stop you having to do 'hard sums' at the end of a long day. If you have lost the Yamaha bit of paper that tells you what to switch where, PM me and I'll scan the relevant bit for you.

obald

ps I think you are right now I think of it - the Fuel Management stuff was included with motor price. The $200 was for an extra hours meter I put on. Sorry if I've misled folk.

Hi MM,

Fair enough, life would be very dull if we were all identical! I do everything in nautical miles and knots - just the way I was taught.

Had any problems with your HPDI and what do you have bolted on to?

obald

Hi Lethal,

The Yammie stuff does not have the 'distance to go on what's left in the tank' option (or if it has, I haven't found it). I carry 240 litres, and on my biggest days gamefishing so far (11 hours on the water) have not used more than 175 litres - and I ALWAYS leave the ramp with a full tank.

All the ETA and 'how long to go to destination' stuff is done by my chartplotter/sounder  - a Lowrance LCX-15MT. I reckon this is the best monochrome unit arouund - but that's another thread (any bites??)

obald