Set new hour meter

I have no clue, but since the dealer did the work and it's under warranty, and they told you it would set itself... I would be giving them a call.

Did the dealer suggest disconnecting the battery and re-connecting it or anything like that?

Have no idea either, just thinking of what a boat equivalent to a shut-down and re-boot would be.

Follow-up on the hour meter, I disconnected the battery, left it disconnected for several hours, when I reconnected it, the hour meter was still off, only reading the 1.2 hours since installed. Hope the dealer can come up with a fix.

roger50

Well, the dealer just got back to me. He contacted Correct Craft, and here is the response:

"Yes, they got back to me yesterday. Apparently the guage does store info and when you put a new gauge it starts at zero. The computer on the engine, however, does not zero out. They told me that they have even had it where sometimes the engine hours, on the gauge, will reset it self or not go over 999hrs. Nautique is working with the gauge manufacurer to change this because, like you, cutomers would like to have the total hours displayed. In the mean time the next time the boat goes to the dealer, we can put the engine on the laptop and get a computor print out of the engine hours".

So, you can find out the hours at the dealer's, but not correct the new gauge! Like you said, has to be a better way.

roger50

Please let me know how you do, even if you try something that doesn't work.

roger50

My hour meter runs whenever the ignition is on. If yours does as well... how about hooking up a battery charger to the battery and leave the ignition on until you reach the desired hours. Engine isn't running so what can it hurt? Just a thought, but my boat is older so may be yours is different.

Mine also only adds hours when the engine is running, not just when the ignition is on.

roger

I didn't replace the gauges, the previous owner did. I was told the the original gauges were garbage, and were replaced with the Faria gauges.

I have to say I like the gauges that are currently in it. Here is a link that shows what my tach./hour meter looks like:
Faria TC9137A Chesapeake Black


It is a "Faria TC9137A Chesapeake Black 6000 RPM Inboard Illuminated Boat Tachometer w/ Hour Meter Gauge".

The Faria gauges are working fine for me, although I did have to replace the "paddlewheel" as the speedometer did not work when I purchased the boat.

-dave

Pete,
Yes it was late and I was on my third Beefeater/Tonic doing the best I could at the time. It has been corrected for your viewing pleasure.

-dave

If you have PerfectPass, you could simply update PP with the correct hours and the PP display will keep track for you.

88 S NAUTIQUE wrote: My hour meter runs whenever the ignition is on. If yours does as well... how about hooking up a battery charger to the battery and leave the ignition on until you reach the desired hours. Engine isn't running so what can it hurt? Just a thought, but my boat is older so may be yours is different.

Well, this is what I have found. By hooking up a 12vdc current, the hour meter will NOT add hours. But, when I add a computer fan (12vdc), in the mix, and hook positive/negative to the tachometer, BINGO!

Here is a pic. of the setup. I started with 47.2, and I now have 49.1 hours, 212.9 hours to go, see below:


I just have to leave it hooked up for the next eight days straight!


I wonder what a TV repair man would have cost me for the same thing ???

Update: This is no longer working. I checked the tach. the very next morning and it was not powered on, the fan was not working either. Upon further investigation, the DC power supply was shot. OK. So I hook up the battery charger, in place of the DC power supply, and no work!

I guess the first take at this was just a fluke. I cannot get it to work again. Further updates to follow.
-dave

Ya, I have no idea why it worked at first, all I did was power up the tach. with 12vdc, then I added the fan off that same power supply, and it started adding hours. Go figure.

The reason I started down this path is a saw, after MONTHS of RESEARCH, that a gent somewhere noted that a fan from a computer generated a "square" wave signal, which is what I was told I needed by Faria Intstr., to add the hours to the tachometer. The "yellow" wire from the fan. In this case the yellow wire did nothing, when hooked up to the "signal" post on the tachometer.

Back to the drawing board. I like getting you rattled I guess (sub consciously), keep you guessing, all good fun on my part.

I ran into the same issue when replacing my digital gauges with analog on my Nautique.. I needed the replacement due to the Gateway box failing as a lot of them do. I had seen where I could get the hours registered for ~$150 from someone online. After reading some of the post on this and other sites I decided to purchased a wave generator and the test probes from Amazon ($30). You need to make sure you have a 5v power supply 2 amp minimum to make the wave generator work else it will say "low battery". You cant use a phone charger or the USB on your PC. I used one from an external PC speakers.
From the attached diagram Purple is the ignition (12v battery +), Black is Ground (12v-) and Grey is the Tach.
From the Wave Generator connect the Red probe to the Tach post, connect the Black probe to the Ground post.
Take a 12V battery can connect the Battery- Ground to the Ground post and the Battery + Hot to the Ignition post.

Set the wave Generator to "Square Wave" at 200Hz. You can look on Youtube to see how to make the adjustments. This is what represents you ignition firing. I had to increase the amplitude (AMP dial knob on the side) of the wave to get it to register. I had to turn mine up 50%

It will register 1 hour for each hour you have this running.
If you increase the frequency of the wave generator you will only get greater RPM's. you will need at least 400 RPM for the hours to register.
There is a dip switch on the back of my Tach. The instructions say to set it to "3". I played with different settings to see if it could register hours faster...it didn't change the results.

Last night I tried other wave forms such as a sign wave, saw tooth etc. Each of them worked.
The engine is a 2004 PCM Excalibur 330. The ECM hold the hours which can be read at the dealer. My understanding is he Gateway reads analog information from the engine, converts it to a digital signal, adds other wiz bang capabilities such as hours of run time remaining, fuel consumption per hour etc. It is likely that it also stored the engine run hours though I am not sure.
I do have a Perfect Pass. There is no consideration for the Perfect Pass in this setup.