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I have a bunch of Garmin stuff: AIS + GPS hockey puck, 24xd GPS/heading sensor on NMEA bus, Fantom 18, Reactor 40 auto pilot, 8610xsv, 943xsv, CL7 engine display (GPSmap 7607 + Yamaha app). I did a software upgrade yesterday by downloading the software from Garmin, unzipping it into an SD card, plugged the card into the empty slot on the 8610, got the pop up to install software, did that, did the restart, Fantom did one more update, and we're back.
Probably should have backed things up first.
Except we're not back. I get a repeating dialog on the 943 and the 8610 about my fuel capacity has changed, I need to reset it. [Now | Later]. I click now, get a screen that lets you set it, but the dialog comes back (over and over). When the dialog is there, the screens won't respond to anything but the dialog.
Here's how I fixed it.
A) remove network and NMEA bus.
B) Find My Vessel under settings somewhere, then find fuel.
C) There are a couple of options, you want the one that sets the size of the tank. Mine was set to 114, correct, but I reset it to that and pressed done.
D) Then I get the same dialog about fuel capacity and I hit now, it's not tank size, it's how much fuel I have in the tank. Eyeballed it, called it 50 gallons, done.
Did that on both the 943 and the 8610, reattached the network/nmea, power cycled every thing, it's all good.
Leaving this here in case someone hits the same problem.
Edit: Johnson Hicks called me and explained why my displays wanted gallons in the tank. It's so when you set a route, it will look at the route and see if you have enough gas and refuse the route if you don't. I'm less than thrilled about that because I take external gas tanks on tuna runs but whatever, you can get around it by doing heading hold towards your destination. At least we know why it wants the info.
BTW, apparently Garmin will calibrate on zero fuel best. So what you can do is put some external gas on the boat, run your tank empty or close, if it is not empty, unbolt the sending unit, pull it up so it thinks it is empty, and calibrate there. Told to me by my frustrated friend Jens who, like me, thinks it should calibrate on a full tank. If anyone has better info on that, please jump in.
Probably should have backed things up first.
Except we're not back. I get a repeating dialog on the 943 and the 8610 about my fuel capacity has changed, I need to reset it. [Now | Later]. I click now, get a screen that lets you set it, but the dialog comes back (over and over). When the dialog is there, the screens won't respond to anything but the dialog.
Here's how I fixed it.
A) remove network and NMEA bus.
B) Find My Vessel under settings somewhere, then find fuel.
C) There are a couple of options, you want the one that sets the size of the tank. Mine was set to 114, correct, but I reset it to that and pressed done.
D) Then I get the same dialog about fuel capacity and I hit now, it's not tank size, it's how much fuel I have in the tank. Eyeballed it, called it 50 gallons, done.
Did that on both the 943 and the 8610, reattached the network/nmea, power cycled every thing, it's all good.
Leaving this here in case someone hits the same problem.
Edit: Johnson Hicks called me and explained why my displays wanted gallons in the tank. It's so when you set a route, it will look at the route and see if you have enough gas and refuse the route if you don't. I'm less than thrilled about that because I take external gas tanks on tuna runs but whatever, you can get around it by doing heading hold towards your destination. At least we know why it wants the info.
BTW, apparently Garmin will calibrate on zero fuel best. So what you can do is put some external gas on the boat, run your tank empty or close, if it is not empty, unbolt the sending unit, pull it up so it thinks it is empty, and calibrate there. Told to me by my frustrated friend Jens who, like me, thinks it should calibrate on a full tank. If anyone has better info on that, please jump in.
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