[CA] [CA11] Connect my SmartCraft manged engines to my Axiom MFD

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Welcome to the Raymarine Forum John,

Please click here to view a FAQ addressing interfacing marine engines an Axiom/Axiom Pro/Axiom XL MFD or a/c/e/eS/gS-Series MFD. As indicated therein, ensuring that the vessel's engine(s) have been assigned the correct NMEA 2000 Device Instance Numbers is critical to being able to correctly display engine data within Raymarine systems. In systems featuring Raymarine's ECI-100 Engine Gateway, the Identify Engines feature may be used to address instancing. However as indicated within the FAQ found here, when third party engine gateways are employed, then the Identify Engines feature may not be employed and it would be required that the third party engine system / gateway be configured to transmit engine instance IDs which are consistent with the information within the referenced FAQ. In the case of a two engine system, this would require that transmitted NMEA 2000 PGNs associated with the port engine feature 0 for the included Instance ID, while transmitted NMEA 2000 PGNs associated with the starboard engine feature 0 for the included Instance ID.

It would accordingly be recommended that a NMEA 2000 / CAN bus analyzer be interfaced to the marine electronics backbone to determine 1) if NMEA 2000 PGNs containing engine data are being transmitted to the NMEA 2000 backbone, and 2) which Instance IDs are being transmitted within these NMEA 2000 PGNs. If found not to be consistent with the information specified here and within the referenced FAQs, then it would be recommended that Mercury Marine be contacted to determine how the Instance IDs included within the PGNs transmitted by the Mercury NMEA 2000 gateway may be changed to be as specified within this response.