Surface Interval wrote:
Hds-8 gen 1 here. Touch screen would be great. I put a Lowrance fuel flow sensor in this spring. It's great. It shows gph, mpg, and total fuel used on the chart plotter screen. It has shown me that best economy is not as slow as I thought. I really like the total fuel used feature when refueling.
Yea these numbers are something i direly want.
Paul I. wrote:
Looks like a nice unit.
Just a word to the wise............ I am using a Lowance fuel flow on my 2 engines. My GPS is a Garmin and it does see the fuel flow sensors. To make a long story very short, NMEA2k is a loose standard. Meaning by mixing brands, you may or may not get the features or results that you would want. I would stay in the same brand on the network or at least as much as I could. If you need tech support, and I must say Garmin was very good about it. They can blame the other (which Lowrence did) for it not working correctly. If its the same brand, they must come up with a solution or do something.
The main cross polination would be with sensors and they would be lowrance. BUT the nice thing is that Lowrance and Simrad are owned and under the same parent company Navco. So i believe the lack of simrad branded sensors is purely because if yo call in they will tell you to buy the lowrance sensor. In addition as the lowrance targets the fishing guy heavily they market the sensors this way. (my opinion)
Thanks yes so far i am fairly set that this is the unit that i am going to purchase around the holiday sales. Unless something changes dramatically. it has a good interface that i like, available sensors, size, touch screen, looks, and it is priced for the features that i plan to use.
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