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Mercury Outboards, DDT = ODB II ???
Is the Mercury Marine scan diagnostic bus readable by the car ODB II
tools? I have a Optmax 2000 235HP with the check engine light on.. It's going to take over a week to get the repair people to walk 100 feet to my dock and plug the tool in. I saw the Merc DDT tool on the net for $1221, Would love to be able know why the lights on. Missing the best boating weather of the year in Boston.. Jon |
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"Jon.boston" wrote in message om... Is the Mercury Marine scan diagnostic bus readable by the car ODB II tools? I have a Optmax 2000 235HP with the check engine light on.. It's going to take over a week to get the repair people to walk 100 feet to my dock and plug the tool in. The Mercury DDT is a propriatary system, and a very expensive one at that. They now have laptop software, but it is set up so it cannot be used by the DIY type person, as it has to be "reregistered" often. ODB II diagnostics are only for cars. Even the electronic fuel injected GM engines in inboards or stern drives use a diagnostic different system and interface.. Evinrude FICHT, DI, and E-TEC are the only service friendly engines for the do-it-yourselfer. For the FICHT and Evinrude DI motors, you can use an ordinary laptop, reasonably priced software, and an easliy made or inexpensively bought interface cable. The E-TEC engines use a PDA and the same cable. The PDA can also be used on most '99 and later FICHTS and Evinrude DI outboards. Yamaha and Suzuki need a laptop, but their software is expensive and they use an interface cable that has an addtional black box wired into it so one cannot make a cable for himself. Bill Grannis service manager |
And with mercury you have to have the "chip" for the engine your are working
on that plugs into the DDT. The chip for my Mercury 280 is about $230 above and beyond the price of the DDT. .. "Billgran" wrote in message ... "Jon.boston" wrote in message om... Is the Mercury Marine scan diagnostic bus readable by the car ODB II tools? I have a Optmax 2000 235HP with the check engine light on.. It's going to take over a week to get the repair people to walk 100 feet to my dock and plug the tool in. The Mercury DDT is a propriatary system, and a very expensive one at that. They now have laptop software, but it is set up so it cannot be used by the DIY type person, as it has to be "reregistered" often. ODB II diagnostics are only for cars. Even the electronic fuel injected GM engines in inboards or stern drives use a diagnostic different system and interface.. Evinrude FICHT, DI, and E-TEC are the only service friendly engines for the do-it-yourselfer. For the FICHT and Evinrude DI motors, you can use an ordinary laptop, reasonably priced software, and an easliy made or inexpensively bought interface cable. The E-TEC engines use a PDA and the same cable. The PDA can also be used on most '99 and later FICHTS and Evinrude DI outboards. Yamaha and Suzuki need a laptop, but their software is expensive and they use an interface cable that has an addtional black box wired into it so one cannot make a cable for himself. Bill Grannis service manager |
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:53:18 GMT, "Billgran"
wrote: "Jon.boston" wrote in message . com... Is the Mercury Marine scan diagnostic bus readable by the car ODB II tools? I have a Optmax 2000 235HP with the check engine light on.. It's going to take over a week to get the repair people to walk 100 feet to my dock and plug the tool in. The Mercury DDT is a propriatary system, and a very expensive one at that. They now have laptop software, but it is set up so it cannot be used by the DIY type person, as it has to be "reregistered" often. ODB II diagnostics are only for cars. Even the electronic fuel injected GM engines in inboards or stern drives use a diagnostic different system and interface.. Evinrude FICHT, DI, and E-TEC are the only service friendly engines for the do-it-yourselfer. For the FICHT and Evinrude DI motors, you can use an ordinary laptop, reasonably priced software, and an easliy made or inexpensively bought interface cable. The E-TEC engines use a PDA and the same cable. The PDA can also be used on most '99 and later FICHTS and Evinrude DI outboards. What's reasonably priced? Take care. Tom "The beatings will stop when morale improves." E. Teach, 1717 |
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