Monitoring

Monitoring

Instruments, the New Generation By Ben Ellison \| Posted June 2008 Do you like the time on your wrist expressed with traditional hands or in digital form? Or has your cellphone display supplanted wrist watches altogether? In a world of ever-... Read Article	Garmin GMI 10 By Ben Ellison \| Posted April 2008 Garmin GMI 10The 3.5-inch color screens on Garmin's new do-it-all instrument heads looked bright and sharp at the European trade show where I saw them previewed, and they should... Read Article
PAS-Thru Box By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2008 PAS-Thru BoxLife's hard; your friends are all enjoying NMEA 2000 install benefits with their new gear, and you're still struggling with an unruly mess of NMEA 0183 data... Read Article	ClearPoint Weather By Ben Ellison \| Posted December 2007 ClearPoint WeatherClearPoint is an ambitious new weather service that attempts to go global with features similar to those that have made XM and Sirius Weather so popular under... Read Article
Krill Black Box By Ben Ellison \| Posted October 2007 Krill Black BoxFor a while now Krill Systems has been building sophisticated sensor pods that collect all sorts of vessel info—tank levels, switching states, power... Read Article	Interphase SE-200B By Ben Ellison \| Posted October 2007 Interphase SE-200BInterphase's SE-200B forward-looking sonar (FLS) can be neatly integrated into most any helm. Its video output can go to one or more of the many multifunction... Read Article
'Lectronics Lab By Ben Ellison \| Posted July 2007 Most people, including my wife, call it a "basement," but I prefer to think of the area beneath our Maine home as a multifunctional work area, and a nice hangout. The carpentry... Read Article	Gauges to GUIs By Ben Ellison \| Posted May 2007 Why reinvent the wheel? Faria tapped Maptech to help create Maestro.You can almost smell stacks of freshly stitched and pressed Civil War uniforms as you walk around Faria's... Read Article
Parker Fuel-Tank Selector Valve By Ben Ellison \| Posted March 2007 Yet another big-time industrial manufacturer reaches up into the electronic helm. Parker’s Fluid Control Division developed this solenoid drive selector valve so that a skipper... Read Article	Offshore Systems Fuel Gauge By Ben Ellison \| Posted March 2007 Offshore Systems’ nifty fuel gauge is built into a stainless steel deck fitting, right where you want it. One version, costing $349, can be used with existing analog tank-level... Read Article
BilgeWatch 8 By Ben Ellison \| Posted March 2007 The trouble with automatic bilge pumps is that they can hide a slowly building leak. The BilgeWatch 8 takes care of that issue, monitoring one to eight pumps simultaneously,... Read Article	Argonaut Tflex-G615 By Ben Ellison \| Posted February 2007 Argonaut has broken a significant price barrier with the $995 waterproof and sunlight-viewable Tflex-G615 monitor. Its claim of an enormous 2,000-nit illumination equivalence may... Read Article
Raymarine LifeTag MOB System By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2007 Unlike some safety gear, you'll never have to worry if LifeTag is going to work when you need it. That's because it's what might be called an "alarm-on-failure" system; the... Read Article	Hatteland Series 2 By Ben Ellison \| Posted January 2007 Hatteland Display, a large Norwegian manufacturer with an excellent behind-the-scenes reputation, is going public with its new Series 2 Marine Multi Displays (MMD) and Marine... Read Article
Paradox Marine's Marine Magellan Video By \| Posted January 2007 Read Article	VEI DM Series Monitors By Ben Ellison \| Posted October 2006 VEI’s new DM series monitors show how an assortment of seemingly minor developments can add up to what may well be a breakthrough product line. The visible bezel, for instance, is... Read Article
Krill Monitoring System By Ben Ellison \| Posted October 2006 The goal of Krill Systems is to make the elegant and informative monitoring we often see on megayachts possible on the boats most of us cruise in. The solution is a flexible... Read Article	Maretron Weather Station By Ben Ellison \| Posted September 2006 Maretron’s $699 Weather Station is as ambitious as Airmar’s but itself only senses wind—again ultrasonically, which means both accurately and without moving parts—plus... Read Article
Airmar PC WeatherStation By Ben Ellison \| Posted September 2006 It’s astounding how many sensors are packed into that 23/4-inch-diameter housing: ultrasonic wind, GPS, compass, accelerometer (pitch and roll), thermometer, barometer, and... Read Article	Touching Bottom By \| Posted July 2006 Read Article
Eyes Everywhere By \| Posted December 2005 Read Article	In the Field: Night Vision Technologies By \| Posted January 2005 Electronics Editor Ben Ellison got to see how Night Vision Technologies’s (www.nvti-usa.com) 3000i night/day vision system worked on a dark and busy... Read Article
Tell Me Everything By Tim Clark \| Posted June 2003 Tell Me Everything - Cummins Electronic Engine Displays Read Article	Smooth Operation By Capt. Ken Kreisler \| Posted June 2003 Smooth Operation - Electronic Controls Read Article
Transflective Displays By \| Posted June 2003 Electronics - November 2001 Read Article	Bright Ideas By Tim Clark \| Posted May 2003 Read Article

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