Get on the Bus

If your next boat or engine is a product of the Brunwick Corporation (not an unreasonable possibility as they own 48 boat brands plus engine companies) your throttle and shift commands will likely travel to the engine and transmission by bus, not the kind with tires, but a digital control and communication bus called SmartCraft. If the boat is powered with a Cummins Mercruiser Zeus system, movement of the wheel or joystick will also be communicated over a SmartCraft bus. All engine readouts, whether on a monochrome or color LCD, or on familiar looking analog gauges, will be sent from the engine to the helm on a second SmartCraft bus. A third SmartCraft bus may be aboard to control and monitor auxiliary systems such as gensets, trim tabs, tank fluid levels, bilge pumps, and the like. ...

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