Its hard to be certain about whether what you have done has freaked the network out, or freaked the SMIS displays out. Probably, the network is the one that's freaked out and needs to be reset. Try this. Turn everything off. Disconnect the battery and leave it 30 minutes then reconnect it again. Turn the engine key on, but dont start the motor. See what happens. If the SMIS gauges are then responding normally, go into one gauge's menu and check the fuel capacity is set correctly.
Then leave ot alone. If it is all still locked up, we have a real problem. Normally I would say to go into one of the SMIS menus, network, device list, select the Suzuki, select unconfigure then, reconfigure it from the start. If you still have problems try to do that. But if the SMIS are locked, maybe them we have to try resetting them to unlock them: 1. Turn the SMIS off turn the network power off, or turn the engine key off if that is what powers the network and the gauges 2.
Press and hold the DOWN button 3. Turn the network on so the SMIS gauges come on. Turn off unit. You can then restart the network as usual. I tried the hard Reset but again the menu buttons freeze and I can't get past the locked screen that appears after I release the down button.. All readings on my Furuno TZT2 are reading correct though including fuel levels. Filtered by:. Previous template Next. Super D. Hey fellas. I've owned a DF since new. Its got almost 1, hrs on it and has been trouble free until recently.
My main battery switch in the boat broke, so I unhooked both batteries for about a week until the new battery switch came in. When I hooked everything back up, my engine gauges would still turn on, but they flash dashes instead of information that they used to show.
The tach background still turns on, but the needle doesn't move. I've got what appears to be the Lowrance LMF gauges or older versions of them. My software is version 1. I have the blue tees and they are screwed down. I've unhooked the main feed into each tee individually thinking I might be able to weed out a bad sensor, but that didn't do anything. My next step is to unhook and ohm out each tee.
If all my tees are good, I'm kind of lost on where to go from there. Its worked great for 8 years, so I don't think I need a software update, just need some help trying to figure out what connection or sensor went bad.
I've unplugged most of the electrical connections under the dash and they've all looked good. I have not pulled the cowling and started on the motor end yet. A little bit of help would be greatly appreciated. Tags: None. Please don't regard him as an "expert"; he's getting quite old and thinks that "fadiddling fumble-putz" is a more accurate description. How can something that costs so little work so well.
Have sense added the lmf little brother to the and lots of other nmea devices. Well, I should add that some people find the LMF a bit pixelated. As far as remaining fuel, it works fine with only the EP flow device, once the tank was filled and the device reset. It works great. I cannot find the EPr storage module you mentioned, so the fuel remaining feature does not work.
The module is not listed at the Lowrance web site, nor at any of the on line vendors I have checked. But does anyone know where I can get such a system for a vessel with: 2 main engines Rolls Royce BHP 2 Caterpillar generators 1 emergency generator 2 bow thruster engine?
I have this gauge mounted on my 40hp test skiff now, and am happy to report that the Flow and Economy numbers are significantly better! Flip, The sensor, along with the gps antenna, does all the calculations, and can be displayed on the LCX 27 screen.
Ok, thank you I have the lowrance n2k flow sensor I will look more for the readout. So this would work with any n2k device?
Since the calculation is done in the sensor. Just wondering if you have to have a Lowerance LMF or LMF head to do calibration or are we finally at the holy grail whereby different devices can work with each other e,g, a lowrance fuel flow sensor with a garmin chartplotter the lowrance flow sensor is half the price of the garmin sensor.
Peter, Lowrance does not make a diesel fuel sensor but the LMF works fine with the FloScan sensors linked to above.
I just installed the LMF with fuel flow, level, and paddle wheel sensors. However, one of the screens shows voltage can be either battery or alternator. Mine does not register either.
I find no voltage sensors listed in the Lowrance catalog. I was instructed by Lowr to connect the power to the run of the tee that the LMF is connected to the branch. Perhaps when I upgraded to a new interface I didn't connect the trim plug. That would be odd as I'm usually pretty anal about stuff like that. I'll be much more clear on all of that as I go through all the wiring on the boat over the next few weeks as time allows. I'll definitely do that as well.
Thanks for the heads up there. I already have one or two extra LMF gauges around as my console has room for two LMF's and two LMF's, and it was my goal to run a pair of each so that I didn't have to page through each one. Both sounds like a recipe for trouble Thanks again for your help. I have a feeling this will be quite a long thread by the time I have it all sorted out.
But I am looking forward to a new system working properly and integrating with all my other marine electronics. Uploading the Suzuki software to the LMF gauges is easy, as mentioned above, its simply a matter of connecting one LMF to the network, upload the software, then take it off and put the next one on. Once they are all updated, you can reconnect them all to the network.
There were compatibility issues between very early SMIS software and some interface software. We have learnt that this Suzuki network stuff all starts with matching the interface software to the engine, and then, matching all other software with the interface software. So what that means is that you should start with updating the interface software.
You need to do them all to the same version otherwise there is likely to be compatibility issues and conflicts.
I haven't been doing much with the boat, as I'm waiting for some electronics mounts to arrive from the US. I did hook the HDS 10 at the bow back up just to check the software version.
It was 2. The model was listed as 3. I updated to the V2. Of course, nothing ever goes smooth for me. I left it afterwards as nothing popped up and I thought maybe the second device was also going to update.
I wonder if the fact that it was beeping the whole time routine maintenance warning caused the funky update. Maybe I'll try it again once I get the gauges sorted out. It's not on my NMEA network list at all, and only lights with no display at all. Then I'll update it if I can get it to display anything. If not, in goes the LMF The one on the right I installed years ago. When I checked the software versions, I started to understand why I've been having issues JPG Anyways, thanks so much for your help Grant.
Now it's just a matter of working through everything. Ok, good work so far. Turn Unit Off. Press and hold the DOWN button. Turn unit on activate power to NMEA network or connect unit to operating network.
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