Michiman
Well-Known Member
For those of you with the Mercury smartcraft gauges, I'm hoping you can share your experience with regard to the "tilt" meter. Leaving the dock on my maiden voyage, I thought I was trimmed all the way down because the trim read "0". However, when I went to take off the bow went up quite high and the prop started to ventilate. I stopped and trimmed it down more, much to my surprise!
My first assumption was that the trim gauge didn't work but later when I was trimming it all the way up it did move from "0" well up past "9". However, the engine moves a great deal while in the "0" range, which I am not at all used to. With my prior boat, if the engine was going up or down, so did the gauge needle.
Question: Does your "0" have substantial engine movement before it reaches "1"? Again, if I'm on the high end of "0" I can't even take off. I have to continue to trim down to the low end of "0". Not good in my opinion.
My first assumption was that the trim gauge didn't work but later when I was trimming it all the way up it did move from "0" well up past "9". However, the engine moves a great deal while in the "0" range, which I am not at all used to. With my prior boat, if the engine was going up or down, so did the gauge needle.
Question: Does your "0" have substantial engine movement before it reaches "1"? Again, if I'm on the high end of "0" I can't even take off. I have to continue to trim down to the low end of "0". Not good in my opinion.