tailgunner
Petty Officer 3rd Class
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- Aug 20, 2003
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I recently purchased a Navman 2100 Fuel sender. This is a flow meter type of fuel guage. That is, it has a tranducer in the fuel line and measures fuel going through the fuel line and boasts 5% accuracy.<br /><br />Installation took about 30 minutes. I installed the transducer after the fuel/water seperator and ran the cable to the console via the cable scupper. The guage is standard size and replaced my fuel guage (which never worked very well).<br /><br />Following the instruction I set the guage to 50. I filled the tank and set off. Spent a couple of hours fishing and saw that I used 25 gallons! This seemed high.<br /><br />The guage has several modes and I chose the one that shows total and not flow. After all, 1.5gph means nothing to me. I think that it will be interesting to see the flow rates between trolling at 5mph and top speed of 30mph.<br /><br />Going over the settings I saw that the Navman is set to liters by default. I reset it to gallons, filled the tank and set off to go fishing again. Same trip showed that I used around 5 gallons. This is more like it.<br /><br />All in all I like the Navman and for $170 I am no longer worried that I will run out of fuel 25 miles from port.<br /><br />Disclaimer:<br />I don't work for nor am I compensated by Navman.
<br /><br />Dunaruna, so far the unit is better than the 5% accuracy claimed. This morning, it said I was down by 5.2 gallons. The tank took 5.1 gallons. I like it erring on the cautious side. I haven't tried the mpg feature yet. I have a big fishing trip set for this weekend, I'll see what it says.<br /><br />All in all I am quite pleased with this product.