Old yamaha gauge change out

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I have a 2005 Grady White 225 Tournament. It has a Yamaha f250 4 stroke with the newer CPU with the 6P2-20 number on it and the plug for NMEA 2000 connection. As is common, the old gauges have the older, very faded LCD screens and need to be changed or refurbished. I am planning to add the NMEA 2000 system and have ordered the backbone and needed connectors. I am trying to decide how to proceed with the gauges. I can just change the old gauges out or send them out to be refurbished (which is the lowest cost) I could change them out with command link gauges which is a little more expensive but better gauges, or I could go all in on the newer display screen that most new Grady's have as standard now. Last, I could also just run the NMEA 2000 through my multi screen depth finder/chart plotter, but that would then be a candidate (if not already) for an upgrade as well. My first take was to forget about refurbing or replacing the old style gauges and at a minimum spend the extra $3-$400 bucks on the command link gauges that will fit in my existing dash, and also connect to my chart plotter when I decide to update it to a nicer model than I have, but the Yamaha display is again about $400 more and then I could do something else with the dash where the old gauges are.

Has anyone done this change out and if so, what did you do and how did it work out ?

Thanks in Advance
 
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I don't think that your engine has a N2K network interface. It uses a CAN bus. It can talk to N2K but requires a gateway. I may be wrong on the details but that is how my engines interface to N2K
 
seasick said:
I don't think that your engine has a N2K network interface. It uses a CAN bus. It can talk to N2K but requires a gateway. I may be wrong on the details but that is how my engines interface to N2K
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You may be correct, I'll have to check what I purchased,. I bought the conversion kit a while back and haven't set a time up to install the backbone and wiring, however at the time I felt pretty good about what I bought that I had everything. The kit included a yamaha motor interface cable. The cable is the Can bus conversion
 
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