Bill,

If fuel flow is your concern you might look into the Lowrance EP-10 which is
an NMEA 2000 fuel flow device which inputs data to Lowrance displays.
Perhaps other displays as well??? It's cost is about US$ 50. It is a
turbine device which taps into the fuel line going to the engine. There is
also an EP-15 which converts fuel level to NMEA 2000 data. It hooks up to
the sending unit and also reads out on a Lowarance display.

Is it true that NMEA 2000 displays will accept NMEA 0183 input? Heard that
some where and it makes sense that the new would accomodate the old, eh?

Butch
"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
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You'd need a gizmo that converts the sensor data

Well, yeah, it's sort of obvious that a device of some kind will be
needed,
isn't it?

into NMEA-2000 (not NMEA-0183).

Given the 'emerging' nature of NMEA 2000 I'm not sure I'd want to bother
with the bleeding edge.. The E-series can take NMEA-0183, SeaTalk
(slower),
SeaTalk2 (faster) or their ethernet-based SeaTalkHS (fastest). I'd
imagine
one that used SeaTalk2 would be best for this display. Especially since
that's what the E-80 manual suggests.

Start with the engine manufacturer?

And I have sent 'em an e-mail inquiry. I'm asking the group to help avoid
the usual hassles of vendor 'recommendations' of products that bring along
their own headaches.

So who supplies the sort of interface that converts from oil, tach, etc,
into SeaTalk 2?