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  • July 30, 2020 at 6:45 pm #101630

    rustysmaule
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    I have Smart Craft Diesel vieaw 4 on my 2006 Seary 44DB with QSC 500 HD engines. I have an opportunity to buy a gently used VV7 to install in its place as the display is fading. I need to know which cables I will need to
    buy to integrate the VV7. I already have the DV4 linked to my MFD with a NEMA gateway via STNG.
    Will the VV7 be a compatible upgrade?
    Thanks for any help.
    Rusty Mayes

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  • March 3, 2022 at 10:59 pm #127983

    Mark Millard
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    Vessel Name: Georgia Kay
    Engines: QSB5.9
    Location: Townsville
    Country: Australia

    Can you link Smartcraft to NMEA2000 then MFD

    HI Rusty,

    I know this is a reply to post more than a year ago, but I was very keen to know exactly how you link your DV4 to NMEA and MFD using STNG.

    Could you email me if you get this reply – [email protected].

    Im looking for an interim solution to the DV4 screen failure and didnt realise the engine data could be extracted from it into NMEA2000?

    regards,

    Mark

    Townsville, Australia

    August 6, 2020 at 6:31 am #101917

    Tony Athens
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    Vessel Name: Local Banks
    Engines: QSB 6.7 550 HP
    Location: Oxnard, CA
    Country: USA

    Yes on the ZEUS too……………It’s all in Mercury’s lap now

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    Gabriel Costa
    August 6, 2020 at 5:50 am #101913

    Gabriel Costa
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    Vessel Name: Costa Nostra
    Engines: QSB 5.9
    Location: Miami, FL
    Country: United States

    Did they wash their hands from the Zeus pods too?? LOL!!

    August 5, 2020 at 4:52 pm #101898

    Tony Athens
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    Vessel Name: Local Banks
    Engines: QSB 6.7 550 HP
    Location: Oxnard, CA
    Country: USA

    Cummins has washed their hands of all Mercury stuff.. All you have to do is ask yourself why they did..They also washed their hands of BEEDE instrumentation in the last year.. Same answer for both… They don’t want to deal with either of them anymore.. Too many glitches..

    Only one solution–Your ECM’s parent language before Mercury turns it into some “Unknown Alien Dialect” thru the SIM module, that is getting harder & harder to sort out…………………………………………………. SAE J1939 is the only answer and every other manufacturer uses it too.Once you go J-1939, the would world of digital instrumentation opens up with NEMA 2000 at the for front.

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    Gabriel Costa
    August 5, 2020 at 11:10 am #101881

    Gabriel Costa
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    Vessel Name: Costa Nostra
    Engines: QSB 5.9
    Location: Miami, FL
    Country: United States

    I was under the impression that VV7 was the answer to the original Diesel View Smartcrap. So now it’s obsolete?

    Whats the answer then? 2005 QSB 380’s w/smartcrap….working fine but display not so good….

    Thank You Tony.

    August 3, 2020 at 6:29 pm #101808

    Tony Athens
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    Vessel Name: Local Banks
    Engines: QSB 6.7 550 HP
    Location: Oxnard, CA
    Country: USA

    Why would you want to go from your current Mercury Smartcrap system to one that has already been obsoleted? Anyway, it will not be simple & probably not cheap.. I suspect it will be more that just cables.

    [email protected] might be able to help.. Drop him a note .

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