Whats the difference between analog and digital gauges?
Analog gauges are meters that are displaying a value that is driven from a sensor mounted to the engine or is in the water. Each gauge is built to be wired directly to its sensor, creating a large mass of wires and pressure hoses (for boat speed and water pressure). In a digital system, the sensors are wired to the engine’s computer, which then sends the information to the digital instruments on a single wire. Digital instruments are not connected to a sensor, but rather to a data transmission line, like a telephone cable, and each one is programmed to “pull” information from this data cable. This allows instruments and the engine to share information with each other, and then create new information as a result of the sharing.
