Fuel Flow Sensors
Hi Team,
Hoping for a bit of advice and get some other peoples experiences. I am currently running a HDS9 gen3 as a plotter and some engine managment functions. I have the EP-60r fuel flow sensor hooked up to this through the nmea network. This works really well at measuring the fuel used, generally after a couple of hundred litres used I am about 5l out from where it says it should be. However, I am now on my third sensor. The first one i got second hand and it died quickly, fair enough I thought, thats what you get, the second one I got new and it lasted just under a year before it died and I got it replaced under warranty, now the third one has lasted just over a year and has recently died.
Has anyone else had similar experiences with these? Any suggestions on what is going wrong?
And seperately, does anyone have a fuel flow sensor hooked up to a Furuno GP1971f? And if so what flow sensor did you use?
thanks
dmck
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What fuel.. ?
diesel or petol ?
When you say it dies, does it just stop giving info or does it leak? Does it restrict the fuel flow ?
None of this is really going to help you... but I am interested in your predicament.
Ihave had a EP60 for some years without any obvious problem, but I have a small 90l tank (petrol)and also an accurate fuel sender so I dont pay a lot of attention to the ep60 data.
Rob H
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"just over a year" doesn't really cut it, you need to approach the business that sold it for a replacement as its reasonable at the price to expect it to last longer than a year.
The warranty they "give" you has no bearing on that.
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