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Old 09-17-2016, 06:36 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Capt. Joe View Post
Anyone with ideas for simple, self built and installed oil / coolant / tach gauges? (Perkins 6-354M - original gauges suck)
Simple engine, have a good alarm system, so I want to keep sending oil press and coolant temp numbers to 2 simple panels and/or even a tablet???
I don't think this counts as "simple" but here's my solution to get data from my 6.354's to gauges and tablets or cell phones:

1) Aetna mechanical tach sending unit


2) Noland RS11 NMEA 2000 engine data converter


3) NMEA 2000 gauges (so far I have just this one, and I don't have a picture of it dipslaying RPM data, but that's how I usually leave it.Lowrance LMF-400):


4) My Vespar AIS XB-8000 sends a bunch of NMEA 2000 data to handheld devices wirelessly. I don't think they support engine RPMs yet, but the list grows with each firmware update. And there are other products that can send out NMEA 2000 over WiFi.

The point is, once the data is digitized there are all kinds of ways to display it. My Garmin chartplotter will even do it. Note the two RPM windows on this display:

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