My outboard is a 70hp 4 stroke Suzuki and to get my engine data onto the sounder there are two key components I required - an NMEA2000 network and the engine interface cable that connects to the NMEA2000 network. To be honest my boat has been a bit of an ongoing project since new and seems to be in a constant state of upgrades, I’m sure this is nothing new to most fisherman LOL. There are two main reasons I want to monitor the engine data - the first being I wanted to trial some different propellers to optimise the fuel used on my trips and the second reason is I have some bigger trips planned and being able to watch my actual fuel usage is key to being able to plan some bigger more remote trips away. In particular I was keen to start utilising the engine monitoring feature of this unit. As I’ve explained in previous articles these Elite units are like small super computers and have more options packed into them than you can poke a stick at. After having my Lowrance Elite Ti² fitted for a while the time has come to start utilising more of the features.
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