Helm And Instrumentation - Cobalt Digital Inc 296 BOWRIDER Owner's Manual

HELM AND INSTRUMENTATION

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Your Cobalt boat helm will monitor and provide
operation of the boat's functions. The gauges are
illuminated for night operation.
On occasion, a small fluctuation in a gauge reading
is not unusual. If an instrument reading is outside
the normal or recommended ranges, determine the
cause or see your authorized Cobalt dealer.
Refer to the engine operator's manual for normal
recommended ranges.
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WARNING
Avoid the risk of injury, death or
equipment damage. If the safety of you
or others depends on running the
engine during an abnormal condition,
make the right decision on saving
equipment or lives. Do not jeopardize
the safety of you or others to protect
your boat.
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1. GAUGE CLUSTER
General Gauge Operation
System Architecture
Each gauge system consists of two Data Interface
Gauges and several auxiliary/slave gauges. The
Data Interface Gauge collects information from the
CAN bus and analog inputs, and drives the
auxiliary gauges via a low-speed data bus. The
auxiliary gauges receive power from the Data
Interface Gauge. The backlight of all the gauges is
powered on a connector terminal, not associated
with any data bus.
System Start-up
At key on, all the gauges will perform a pointer
reset (goes to zero or minimum reading). The Data
Interface Gauge speedometer and the tachometer
will perform an LCD all-segments-on test. Once
these initializations are complete, the gauges will
begin non start-up operation.
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