Hour meter running fast

[SkiGuy1980]

I've noticed the hour meter is incrementing a tenth every 2 minutes on this new boat (350 mag merc). Does anyone know where it picks up that signal? Obviously need to get corrected before my 20 hour boat has 60... and so on.

 

[Scott Danforth]

depends.....separate hour meter or integral to tach

separate is just the ignition signal

integral to the tach and it most likely comes from the ECM

the hour meter is there for you to do maintenance. unless your boat is a 2018, you should have more than 20 hours on it.

 

[alldodge]

I've noticed the hour meter is incrementing a tenth every 2 minutes on this new boat (350 mag merc). Does anyone know where it picks up that signal? Obviously need to get corrected before my 20 hour boat has 60... and so on.

Meter might be bad, since its new check with your dealer

 

[MTboatguy]

If it is a brand new boat, it needs to go to the service shop and have them either calibrate or replace so it is reading correctly.

 

[JimS123]

My boat didn't have one so I added it before I launched the first time. It was wired off the ignition switch. After about 1200 hours it stopped. I noticed it in the Fall when it should have had more hours, based on our usage. I replaced in in like kind. Now when I take readings I need to add 1200 to the display.

 

[SkiGuy1980]

Finally located a new Crown dealer (it's actually the one that sold the boat last summer over in Cincy). Sounds like it's probably the gauge that's bad (the signal is coming from the ECM). Anyway I'll be taking a trip to Cincinnati after I'm done soaking up some Lake Cumberland sun next week.

 

[SkiGuy1980]

I've got a bit of a problem with my hour meter and wondering if anyone here might know a solution. The hour meter is clocking a tenth of an hour every 2 minutes (obviously should be every 6). I took the boat into the dealer who confirmed that the meter matches the ECM. The issue is that the boat appears to have 3 times the actual hours. Changing the meter won't help (it picks up from the tach on the engine.... and they match).

I could reach out to Merc, but I don't have much luck getting responses from them. Any thoughts?

 

[GA_Boater]

I've got a bit of a problem with my hour meter and wondering if anyone here might know a solution. The hour meter is clocking a tenth of an hour every 2 minutes (obviously should be every 6). I took the boat into the dealer who confirmed that the meter matches the ECM. The issue is that the boat appears to have 3 times the actual hours. Changing the meter won't help (it picks up from the tach on the engine.... and they match).

I could reach out to Merc, but I don't have much luck getting responses from them. Any thoughts?

First - Don't start duplicate threads on the same issue.

Second - The hourmeter and ECM both count time fast ECM - You have a bad ECM not hourmeter. The ECM is displaying ECM hours. Any Merc dealer should handle warranty service since it's a brand new boat, you don't need a Crown dealer.

 

[SkiGuy1980]

Sorry, forgot I had started that thread.
I went through the Crown dealer since I was under warranty (2016 purchased originally in July 2017). They are also Merc dealers, so I'll chase that leg of this with them.
My thought was that perhaps someone else had seen similar?