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Old 02-06-2016 | 11:08 PM
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What is the best solution to get trim and tab position on a nema 2000 display? What sensors have people used? The drives ssm 4's. Tabs are 380's.
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Old 02-07-2016 | 08:16 AM
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any 0-5 volt position sensor and Noland box. The mercury sensor can be use outside of the boat (attached to your 380's possibly added at trim pin on ssm4)
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Old 02-07-2016 | 08:54 AM
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Thanks for the reply. Are the Mercury sensors that bolt to the transom assembly accurate enough? I always thought they were not.
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Old 02-07-2016 | 08:16 PM
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The new ones are good
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Old 02-08-2016 | 05:28 AM
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Indy. I ended up using the livorsi units with short morse cables. The signal went into a Noland unit
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I went through this exact runaround two years ago - unless you know how to create and/or modify your own PGN's, you might as well give up. The fact that the Lowrance product is obsolete with no support doesn't help. I ended up returning the Bennett kit and exchanging it for one that didn't include the "supposed" NMEA2000 capability - and then bought the Garmin GBT10. It installed fine, calibrated, and displays perfectly on the GMI10.
For a couple hundred bucks, it's not worth trying to re-engineer the Bennett/Lowrance unit. Chalk it up to one more example of N2K 'sort-of" compatibility...
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