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Old 09-13-2015 | 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by HyFive578
I have the Diacom software on my laptop and it works great.. use it to scan and diagnose my 525EFI's.
You can read both engines at the same time, is that correct?
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Old 09-13-2015 | 04:57 PM
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as a boat mechanic that works on all flavors and most are fishing vessels around here, laptops just always manage to have a dead battery at the time you need it. i have a few extra laptops with solid state drives but was thinking a hand held scanner might be better in the rough and tumble fishing and outboard world
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Old 09-13-2015 | 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by obrien
You have to be a merc dealer to be able to get or use CDS or g3. You can't even buy it. Besides the g3 program won't work on the 496s. The cdi meds is very expensive as well. I inquired about it last year and the rep with Cdi said it was $2800 if I remember correctly
thats what I found out looking around,,did find a copy for sale on Iboats I believe.I have diacom and love it.
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Old 09-13-2015 | 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Mseuro
You can read both engines at the same time, is that correct?
Depends how the engines are rigged , ie communication buss between them or not.
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Old 09-13-2015 | 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Mseuro
You can read both engines at the same time, is that correct?
As far as I know there is nothing available that will allow you to look at both engines at the same time. The closest you could get would be to install a mercury vessel view if you have smartcraft engines but that won't give you much diagnostics capability.
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Old 09-13-2015 | 11:07 PM
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My local marine mechanic was able to hook to both of them and compare readings simultaneously. He may of had the merc software, I'm not sure.
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