The Sync Sense
With very few exceptions, uneven trim angles for twin outdrives and outboard engines are less than desirable. And yet regardless of whether you’re looking at LED or mechanical trim indicators, dead-solid perfect trim angle alignment is tricky to determine and attain. Those facts drove Mike Clesceri, the founder of the Illinois-based Marine Design Corporation, which has had made solid name for itself with its race-tested DriveGuardian product, to develop his DriveSync system for stern drives power packages and recently release a version of it for twin- and triple-outboard applications.
Is perfect stern-drive lower unit and outboard trim-angle alignment in twin-engine applications within reach? Marine Design Corporation’s TrimSync system certainly looks promising. Photo courtesy/copyright Pete Boden/Shoot 2 Thrill Pix.
To streamline and clarify nomenclature, Clesceri has now renamed both products TrimSync. A perfectionist by nature and a longtime performance-boat owner, Clesceri recognized the shortcomings of LED and mechanical trim indicators and they inspired him to develop his system.
“Most LED indicators have less then 17 lights, and even systems like SmartCraft or Garmin have only 100 steps in their displays to indicate the position of the drives/engines,” he said. “The problem is that the range of motion for the propeller shaft on a stern drive or outboard from full down to full up can be more than 23 inches.
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