Monitoring System

[John Maloney]

I have the 12 point monitoring system on my 55 Hatteras. The alarm went off yesterday when I ran at 1800 rpm's. Below 1300 rpm's it was ok. All was ok on the mechanical gauges - 50 to 55 pounds of oil pressure, 180 to 185 degrees on the water temperature and 225 pounds on the transmission pressure. I reset the alarm and it kept going off within a minute. Any thoughts or availability of professionals with this system on Long Island, in New York.

Also, have a bilge light on, which is not trigerring a alarm. All bilges are dry.

Any help would be appreciated.

John Maloney

 

[JLR]

Playing with this system is not fun. There is not really anyone on Long Island that good with the system. I would start by checking the wires to the senders that are involved. If the senders check out ok, it is actually much less expensive to send the monitoring unit out for testing and repair than to play around by the hour locally. The repair facility is Air Flight systems (I think) in Pennsylvania. They rebuilt my entire panel for about $200.

 

[doc g]

Link to the thread with all info .... http://www.samsmarine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1981&highlight=lewisberry+flight+system ........................Pat

 

[John Maloney]

Can you run the boat w/o the monitoring system?

 

[garyd]

Yes you can run it without the monitoring system. There is a fuse on the battery panel that you can pull to shut it up.

I fixed my own by soldering a jumper wire where the ciruit card allowed a bad (open)connection.

There is a bunch of chatter regarding this system on the forum.

garyd

 

[John Maloney]

Is that one of the ANL fuses?

 

[GJH]

Which light is lighting up on the panel? That will tell you exactly which sensor is involved. I had the stbd engine water alarm going off intermittently, but frequently, recently. I checked it out with an infrared thermometer to make sure that it was the alarm, not the guage at fault. This sensor (like the others, if I recall correctly) is a "normally open" so I took a little jumper wire with alligator clips on each end (don't leave port without at least one!) and bridged its terminals. Then called Sam's and got a replacement for about 60 bucks. Have your hull number and engine type handy.

There are fuses inside the system monitor box itself, and I believe one is labeled in the main panel too (which on my boat has ANL and regular tube fuses). But why disable the whole thing if you don't have to? It is a very valuable back up to the gauges, and senses stuff for which there is no gauge in the first place. Gauges and their sensors go bad too.