Cummins Marine Diesel Repower Specialists › Forums › Cummins Marine Engines › Individual Engine Fuel Burn in VesselView 4
Paul Greenhalgh.New to me vessel with twin QSB6.7 480’s. Helm equipped with VesselView 4. I can display total fuel burn/hour but for the life of me, I cannot find how to display fuel burn for each individual engine. Could someone please point me right on this? I Thanks in advance
Thanks Tony. I have the VV4 manual and read that carefully: it was not helpful. I finally got hold of a local Mercruiser dealer who has a subcontractor expert in VV. He was super helpful & really knew his stuff, though by his own admission spent most of his time on outboard and gas engine integration, rather than diesels. He said VV4 did NOT display individual engine fuel burn even though it captured this data…as I had found, only combined fuel burn is displayed. BUT he told me of a work-around: the back of the VV4 screen has a NMEA2000 port and by buying an (over-priced) Raymarine adapter cable, I could connect the VV4 directly to my AXIOM Pro MFD. It has a ‘dashboard’ app that takes in most (but not all) the VV4 data feed and displays it really well…including the individual engines’ fuel burn (+ RPM, coolant temps, engine and gear oil pressure for each engine).
If you want to see ALL the VV4 data on a Raymarine MFD, you have to buy a “Smartcraft Gateway” and put this between the MFD & the VV4. Then you get a larger version of the same graphics shown on VV4 and data like Load and Throttle %, Boost pressures, etc etc.. I am happy to look at the VV4 screen for this stuff rather than pay $600 for the Gateway.
Hope this info helps others.
Do you have a single display for both engines –Like a split screen ?
If so, Mercury probably out smarted itself again. That would be typical.
You have a complete manual right?
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
