Not every manufacturer gives you the ability to change Instance, though Maretron is great about it, and you almost invariably need a same manufacturer display or software to make the change. The trick was to change the “Instance” of one transducer from the default “0” so I could then select different instances of Depth when setting up the screen. So you can often get double depth read-outs by setting different displays to different sources, but maybe only Maretron supports the screen above. Some Lowrance MFDs are an exception, but I’m not sure that feature migrated to the HDS series (I’ll check), and I recall that it did not apply to depth for some reason. Most of N2K displays I’m testing let a user choose the source of a particular data type if there is more than one on the backbone, but they don’t let you show two of the same type, except for items that are commonly multiple like engines and tanks. Unfortunately this level of N2K data management is not yet available elsewhere, unless I’ve missed something… I think the screen will be useful in some tight gunkholing situations, and would be even more so on a larger vessel or a multihull. There’s a lot to say about this screen and how the values got there, or didn’t, but what I like the most is how Maretron’s DSM250 is displaying the outputs of two NMEA 2000 depth transducers at once, and that I was even able to name their data windows in an informative way.
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