2025 M series touch screen not working

[tdallmann81]

Anyone else have issues with the new control touch screen? I have a black screen but it still works if you touch it and guess where buttons are. 6 hours on the boat. Not a good sign. First bennington so I hope this is the only problem

 

[Jack M]

Yours is the first issue I've heard about with the new touchscreens . Get it to your dealers service department. Things happen to electronics. My Simrad was replaced over the winter . My choice to wait until winter.

 

[Jack M]

I don't know if the new screens have it , but have you checked the brightness settings ?When I picked mine up last spring after the Simrad replacement it was set to dim . I had to put a towel of the helm and myself to see it to adjust it .

 

[tdallmann81]

I took it to the dealership and they said the crystals burnt out in the LCD. They have a new one coming. Just sucked I had to go 4th of july weekend with guessing how to raise and lower my bimini and work all the lights. But we made it work

 

[Jack M]

Hopefully the parts wait won't be too long.

 

[Vikingstaff]

I know this isn’t your issue, but somehow my Simrad got 100% dimmed out my first or second year. Went a week or so worried it was broke, but couldn’t get it into the dealership. In checking online pics for button placement, kinda got to it to change. It was literally dimmed down too far to see. It was newish to me, and I have no doubt at the time I did something…I shouldn’t have.

Hoping parts get in asap for your screen issue. Being on an older boat and having not played around with those newer M-series dash touch screens, do all your controls run through it then? No switches or button back ups on your dash?

 

[Potomacbassin’]

Technology.... just more stuff to break.

OP unsolicited advice, touchscreens are awesome and many last 1,000,000 miles (navigation screens on cars for example) but if you have any critical data runbing through the MFD (fuel, trim, speed, etc) you may want to have redundancies. Not sure if that's even an option but something to consider as stuff with lots of components eventually fail. Redundancy for fuel could be a wooden stick to check tank level if accessible.