mad about Yamaha's 2013 to 2016 gauges going bad; new ones too expensive or unavailable...read this!

[Riveramx]

First of all I want to thank Djdynex for his excellent post: (2013 Yamaha jet boat nmea 2k upgrade) he gave me this idea. So I don't want to spend 2000.00 plus on gauges for my 2013 Yamaha 212SS. I have called Yamaha USA directly and they were no help at all. They are not making anymore and I guess not giving the blue prints for the gauges to aftermarket companies. Mine where barely visible and the LCD was going out. I know about gauge savers but they told me they can't fix mine. I didn't want to do a whole NEMEA2000 upgrade, I just needed my tachometers back. so, I got a regular tachometers and tapped to the wiring for power, ground and signal coming from my engine computer connectors going to my gauges. I took the old gauges out but left them connected and tied them securely behind my gauge cluster. Installed two new tachometers with three wire and quick disconnects. Tested them and they work fine. Videos in my channel at you tube:

Let me know if you need more info.

 

[dwakeman]

Great idea. You still get speed from your Garmin using GPS, so you are all set.

 

[drewkaree]

That's some really nice work! At first, I thought that it might look more cohesive with black gauge faces, but the more I looked, the more I thought it'd be better for them to stand out and be easily readable, and the contrast does exactly that. Are those backlit, or have you taken it out after dark? Easy to view, or would backlit gauges even be needed, with the white faces?

 

[VitaminSea]

Great idea. Are the gauges calibrated appropriately? In your photo/video it looks like 3500RPM = 31 MPH(?) on the GPS, or am I misreading the units on the GPS? For future reference, can you post a link and/or screen shot of where you picked gauges?

 

[Riveramx]

That's some really nice work! At first, I thought that it might look more cohesive with black gauge faces, but the more I looked, the more I thought it'd be better for them to stand out and be easily readable, and the contrast does exactly that. Are those backlit, or have you taken it out after dark? Easy to view, or would backlit gauges even be needed, with the white faces?

they are cheap Chinese gauges I bought at amazon just for proof of concept, here is the link and yes they are back lighted.

Amazon.com

 

[Riveramx]

Great idea. Are the gauges calibrated appropriately? In your photo/video it looks like 3500RPM = 31 MPH(?) on the GPS, or am I misreading the units on the GPS? For future reference, can you post a link and/or screen shot of where you picked gauges?

yes this gauges can be calibrated to reflect your exact rpm on your engines with a push button on the back of the gauge, there are you tube videos about it.

Amazon.com

 

[Riveramx]

Great idea. Are the gauges calibrated appropriately? In your photo/video it looks like 3500RPM = 31 MPH(?) on the GPS, or am I misreading the units on the GPS? For future reference, can you post a link and/or screen shot of where you picked gauges?

the main thing is that both gauges are set at the same RPM of both engines at idle so that when they track at higher RPMS you can synchronize them so both engine work in unison. You can tell by the noise they make when they are synchronized or not.

Amazon.com