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JBO posted 07-01-2005 08:17 PM ET (US)   Profile for JBO   Send Email to JBO  
I want to buy my boyfriend a diagnostic tool for troubleshhoting his Mercury Optimax 135 outboards, does anyone know where I can find one, or where I should look?
Thanks
DaveH posted 07-02-2005 12:54 PM ET (US)     Profile for DaveH  Send Email to DaveH     
JBO:
You can use a plain old PDA like a Palm Pilot. The software is available from any authorized Evinrude/Johnson outboard dealer and the connector from the PDA to the engine is also easy to find. Read the enclosed link for a discussion of the software:
http://continuouswave.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/003074.html
DaveH posted 07-02-2005 12:58 PM ET (US)     Profile for DaveH  Send Email to DaveH     
JBO;
Sorry, I thought you were looking for a diagnostic computer for an ETEC engine. From what I recall, the software for Mercury engines is proprietary to Mercury Marine and only an authorized dealer service center can use it (and afford it).

If you wish, you can purchase a good shop manual for your boyfriend's engine. That would be a great gift as well.
-Dave

By the way, welcome to the forum.

seahorse posted 07-02-2005 10:24 PM ET (US)     Profile for seahorse  Send Email to seahorse     
Here is a list of items needed to service Mercury products. The prices are a bit out of date.

Merc also now has laptop software but it is for dealers only as it has to be "reregistered" every 60 or 90 days.

Mercury DDT for Optimax and stern drive

91-823686A 2 scanner w/ 10' ext. harness $1365.00

91-822608--6 cartridge for O/B 2000 & prior. $178.00

91-880118--2 cartridge for Smartcraft 2001 Optimax & some MerCruiser $168.05
91-803999 cartridge for MerCruiser 2000 & prior & some 2001 $228.75
84-822560A 5 O/B harness 166.20
84-822560A 2 EFI/MPI MerCruiser harness $96.30
84-822560A13 harness for MerCruiser with PCM 555 & ECM 555 $230.20
OR
84-822560T12 $10.25 use with
84-822560A 5 O/B harness
84-861540A 1 harness for MerCruiser 1997 & up V-6 & V-8 Carb models
W/ Thunderbolt V ign. system to read RPM history. $62.60
used W/ 84-822560A 7 $102.10

jimh posted 07-07-2005 08:42 AM ET (US)     Profile for jimh  Send Email to jimh     
[This article has been separated from another discussion. It was appended to the end of another long thread on an entirely different topic. Please do not revive old threads on completely different topics to append new questions. Thanks.]
jimh posted 07-07-2005 08:45 AM ET (US)     Profile for jimh  Send Email to jimh     
From what I can tell, the Mercury Diagnostic tools are not intended to be sold to the customer--well, judging from those prices at least not to customers without a great deal of money. Even if you had the diagnostic tool, I wonder if you could get any support or information from Mercury about what it was going to tell you and how to use it.

They just do not seem at all disposed to giving this tool or this information to their customers.

prm1177 posted 07-07-2005 11:32 AM ET (US)     Profile for prm1177  Send Email to prm1177     
The new Verados will download information via an RS232 port to a laptop. However, no word on the software required to do so.
jimh posted 07-07-2005 04:04 PM ET (US)     Profile for jimh  Send Email to jimh     
Given the advanced design of the Verado, it seems surprising they would be using anything as archaic as RS-232 for serial data. I would suspect something more in-tune with 2005 like a CAN Bus port.

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