|
|
#11
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Flow Scan ?
Boy I'm amazed installing a fuel management system stops people from filling, or refilling their fuel tanks. Having instrumentation doesn't make you run out of fuel, or off course, or into shallow water. Give me all the information I can get to make my decisions. I always start full, but as we all know, stuff happens, & I want to know as soon as possible if something is wrong, to make my decisions for the safest trip. I still carry paper charts, & plot a course the old fashioned way but I use my GPS also. Next thing you know people will want engines, & with electric start I'll bet, & it will all start with some new guy.
__________________
It\'s gotta be us, \'Cause there\'s a lot more of them !!! 
|
|
#12
12-06-2006, 10:35 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Re: Flow Scan ?
Boy I'm amazed installing a fuel management system stops people from filling, or refilling their fuel tanks. Having instrumentation doesn't make you run out of fuel, or off course, or into shallow water. Give me all the information I can get to make my decisions. I always start full, but as we all know, stuff happens, & I want to know as soon as possible if something is wrong, to make my decisions for the safest trip. I still carry paper charts, & plot a course the old fashioned way but I use my GPS also. Next thing you know people will want engines, & with electric start I'll bet, & it will all start with some new guy.
__________________
It\'s gotta be us, \'Cause there\'s a lot more of them !!!
|
|
#15
12-07-2006, 02:43 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Re: Flow Scan ?
Mod7X: Welcome to the site..I'm with ya and I dont trust any of them either..I run a 57 Viking for a friend of mine sometimes when he wants to fish and it must have a short somewhere as it will creep up to full then slowly drop back to a third of a tank and after plane its right at a half of tank and this is after filling up..after 5 or 6 hours of steady trolling it will stay flat at a half of a tank but the port engine tank goes to empty or is all over the place. IT does not bother him but it sure as hell bothers me..Thats why its important to make sure whoever wires it knows what he is doing...The rate of how much you put in and how much you burn at a given RPM range is a pretty good idea should your gauge fail......Frank
|
|
#16
12-07-2006, 02:43 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Re: Flow Scan ?
Mod7X: Welcome to the site..I'm with ya and I dont trust any of them either..I run a 57 Viking for a friend of mine sometimes when he wants to fish and it must have a short somewhere as it will creep up to full then slowly drop back to a third of a tank and after plane its right at a half of tank and this is after filling up..after 5 or 6 hours of steady trolling it will stay flat at a half of a tank but the port engine tank goes to empty or is all over the place. IT does not bother him but it sure as hell bothers me..Thats why its important to make sure whoever wires it knows what he is doing...The rate of how much you put in and how much you burn at a given RPM range is a pretty good idea should your gauge fail......Frank
|
|
#17
12-15-2006, 09:03 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Re: Flow Scan ?
Navman makes one for around $130.00. I'd like to have one, maybe next spring. They make good sense to me. It seems to me that you have no idea where your most efficient rpm/trim is each time. This will tell you.
__________________
If your not living on the edge.....your taking up space.
|
|
#18
12-15-2006, 09:03 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Re: Flow Scan ?
Navman makes one for around $130.00. I'd like to have one, maybe next spring. They make good sense to me. It seems to me that you have no idea where your most efficient rpm/trim is each time. This will tell you.
__________________
If your not living on the edge.....your taking up space.
|
|
#19
12-21-2006, 12:18 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Re: Flow Scan ?
Another thing on this subject. I have a friend with a Grady White Gulfstream (23ft) and it holds around 100 gallons in the main tank. When he first got the boat he "filled it up" only to find out that the thing likes to vapor lock or something while filling which made him think it was full, but he had room for 50 more gallons!
Now he has to slowly fill the tank to make sure its full. Knowing whats in there before you fill it is key. I always know, almost to the gallon, when she's about to gurgle. Blue
__________________
 1994 Wellcraft V21
|
|
#20
12-21-2006, 12:18 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Re: Flow Scan ?
Another thing on this subject. I have a friend with a Grady White Gulfstream (23ft) and it holds around 100 gallons in the main tank. When he first got the boat he "filled it up" only to find out that the thing likes to vapor lock or something while filling which made him think it was full, but he had room for 50 more gallons!
Now he has to slowly fill the tank to make sure its full. Knowing whats in there before you fill it is key. I always know, almost to the gallon, when she's about to gurgle. Blue
__________________
1994 Wellcraft V21
|
 |
|
|
Linear Mode
