FWIW, Fuel gage is separate from the Engine controls on our boat. Replaced gage and float assembly 10 years ago with a generic. Works great.
Our engine control panel has Volts, Tach, and Temperature. The tach reads from the alternator and I think that was changed by the previous owner and the puller is probably a different diameter? The meter always read half actual RPMs of the crankshaft when compared to a hand held tachometer. 1800 on the tach indicated 3600 cranksahft. I found a four position selector switch on the OEM tach, and tried each setting until the meter was closer to actual. I couldn't get it exact, but very close so just live with it. For me Engine Temperature is the most important gage and I adjust RPMs based on that more than anything else. Chuck Resolute 1990 C&C 34R Atlantic City, NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Plavsa" <stevanpla...@gmail.com> To: "Peter Fell" <prf...@gmail.com>, cnc-list@cnc-list.com Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 10:03:17 AM Subject: Re: Stus-List Engine Gauges -- Are the marine onessomewhat universal? Replacing the panel has been on the "nice to do" project list since I got the boat. We have laser cutters, 3d printers and other machines at work and I've been thinking about laser cutting a new panel out of acrylic complete with the C&C logo and maybe the boat name. That yellow 27 looks nice, good to see another A4 panel. Anyway, if I get around to it and if it works out well I can probably get more panels cut for fellow listers for the cost of materials and shipping. Bonus is that if this works you guys can send me cad or illustrator files of your own custom panels. My fuel gauge stopped working at the end of the season so I have to start digging to figure that out. If I need a new gauge I might just "while I'm in there" raise the priority level of this project. Steve Suhana, C&C 32 Toronto On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Peter Fell < prf...@gmail.com > wrote: Check this panel out (not mine): http://www.flickr.com/photos/82061742@N06/ I’m not sure if that is starboard, or some other plastic material. I plan to replace the original C&C panel on mine in a similar style. Except mine will have a smaller 2-1/8” tach and I plan to relocate the couple inline fuses buried behind the panel with panel mount (waterproof type) fuses. Seems somewhat silly to have 5 and 10 amp fuses buried in behind the panel. Frankly I’d keep that panel protected from the weather as much as possible. My panel has a buzzer and idiot light to warn of low oil pressure / high termperature / low raw-water cooling flow. If possible, pick gauges with ranges so that ‘normal’ operating range has all the needles pointing in approximately the same orientation. For example, that C&C 27 in the link has an Atomic 4, so the readings shown there are all in the range of normal operating parameters. So a quick glance should be all that is needed to make sure all is well. The alarms are a nice safety (wish I had had them when my FW cooling heat exchanger failed!). Those are Faria ‘Euro White’ gauges in the link (except for the tach). My panel has the ‘Euro Black’ and a couple of the old Teleflex gauges original to the boat .. I’ve got new Faria’s to replace the Teleflex (I’ll probably do a new oil pressure sending unit whether or not the existing works with the new gauges) and I’ve got a VDO tach on order that almost matches (again mine is an Atomic 4 so I can’t use a Faria tach since all they make in the 4000 rpm range are diesel tachs). From: Edd Schillay Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 2:41 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Engine Gauges -- Are the marine onessomewhat universal? Rick, It's a big panel and although I could always remove this one and glass over the hole, there's really no place to put a panel that big were it won't interfere with sheet bags, lockers or the aesthetics of the aft cabin. If possible, I was thinking of just making a custom block of a few gauges, an ignition switch, a glow plug button and a starter button. I figure the only gauges I really need are fuel, temp and tach. Could even put the ignition, glow plug and starter inside the locker where I have the pull-stop. Could be so much more elegant looking. Especially with ivory or white dials on the gauges. All the best, Edd ------------------------------- Edd M. Schillay Starship Enterprise NCC-1701-B C&C 37+ | City Island, NY www.StarshipSailing.com ------------------------------- 914.332.4400 | Office 914.332.1671 | Fax 914.774.9767 | Mobile ------------------------------- Sent via iPhone 5 On Feb 22, 2014, at 5:00 PM, "Rick Brass" < rickbr...@earthlink.net > wrote: The Universal Admiral panel on my 38 is set into a rectangular hole in the bulkhead and held in place with 8 screws. Can’t you just move the existing panel to a new location and glass in the old opening? Failing that, a Universal Admiral Panel is around $250 – I thought about upgrading my instruments when I installed the new bobtail engine in 2010, until I found out I already had the upgrade instrument panel. Can’t you just buy a new panel intended for use with your engine, install it, and fill in the old holes (assuming there are individual holes for the instruments, key switch, and assorted pushbuttons)? Rick Brass From: CnC-List [ mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com ] On Behalf Of Edd Schillay Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 4:08 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Engine Gauges -- Are the marine ones somewhat universal? I would like to use the existing senders (I work hard to remain lazy). So how would I test the resistance? Unhook the wires and check the ohms with my multimeter? Or can I test with them connected? 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