I have the typical
yanmar RPM gauge with idiot lights (3JH4CE), but really want to know more than that,
engine temp at a minimum would be critical so I can see if its gradually rising instead of just getting the overheat
alarm. I heard that you could install a send unit on the
engine with nema output to a monitoring system, but have no idea how or who makes it. Ideally it would be great to install on in my
boat something like a apple mini-mac with
navigation software and monitoring
software which could send to a
remote touch
screen navigation info plus engine monitoring info. The minimac PC
hardware and
screen are less than the cost of a digital chart
monitor and would have far more functionality (pick tunes that you want to listen to, sirius feeds to live
weather and navigation bouy info, centralize engine info, navigation, etc) . Back to the engine monitoring though, anyone have an idea where to get started with this?