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Old 11-27-2018, 10:18 AM   #9
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The downside to putting engine info on the chart plotter is you lose screen area for displaying chart data. Or you lose seeing the gauges when you flip over to chart pages.

Some data is best left on it's own screens. There are a number of good NMEA2k displays out there. Maretron makes some pretty versatile ones that'll let you combine a lot of info on one screen. I've got a Yacht Devices J1939 setup on my C-12 engines, works great. Showing data on a Maretron 4" display.

If you're going to use the J1939 bridges (and yes, it's one per engine) then feed them to separate displays, not on your plotter. Let the plotter do it's job. Use separate displays to keep important data visible, all the time.
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