Fusion Stereo

[aroos]

I'm having an issue with my Fusion stereo on my 2014 C30 with 90 engine hours and wonder if anyone else has had this experience. With the House battery switch on, whether or not the other battery switches are on or off, the head unit turns itself on and stays on. If we're on the boat it's a minor nuisance. I turn the unit off, it usually comes back on again almost immediately and once I turn it off again it stays off for a few hours and then the process repeats itself. My real worry is power consumption. We anchor a lot and if the Fusion comes on and its setting produces no sound it can be on for hours before I notice it. I also had an experience earlier this week where we left the boat with the fridges on at a dock with no shore power. 24 hours later we returned, the Fusion was on and the House bank was lower than it should have been.

I have one other issue with the Fusion which I believe is unrelated but who knows. There is a persistent whine from the cockpit speakers when the House switch is on, whether or not the Fusion is on. I've had the local Fusion dealer out twice but no luck. The whine was sufficiently annoying that I've disconnected the speakers.

Any ideas?

 

[Osprey]

Your Fusion unit MAY have an alarm feature. Go to settings, and if there is an alarm setting, be sure that the feature is UNselected.

 

[wefings]

A software update should take care of the auto on issue .
Marc

 

[Microship]

I have an older Fusion model (MS-IP500) on my sailboat, and mostly like it but for a few clumsy UI issues. Sounds good, though it does bake the iPod inside.

Anyway, the biggest issue for years has been flakiness in the controls... sometimes freezing on button presses, failing to turn off, and so on. A power cycle at the breaker panel resets the micro that runs the unit, and generally clears up whatever glitch was happening.

Maybe they haven't fixed that sensitivity in later models (though it is still the most feature-rich and flexible marine stereo). Does your boat have a separate stereo breaker? I would leave that off except when it's in use....

-Steve

 

[aroos]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll try them this weekend and report the results. For the software update, do I go to the Fusion website and download the update on a USB stick or can it be done directly from the head unit? I'll check the panel but I don't think there's a stereo breaker. I could pull the stereo fuse. Would that suffice?

 

[Osprey]

As a temporary solution, removing the stereo fuse would stop the auto start problem. Such a step might also indicate whether or not the speaker whine source is from the stereo or some other interference source.

 

[coreychamness]

You update the stereo via the usb port. make sure whatever memory stick you use will fit before you download the software from the Fusion site. The slot to jam in the stick is fairly narrow. Mine barely fit. I recently updated mine so it would support my Fusion Bluetooth module.

 

[swe67]

Had the same issue.....Update cleared it up....I needed it for my BT module

 

[aroos]

I pulled the fuse and left it out for 10 minutes and after re-insertion the head unit "unlocked" and operated normally. I then updated the head unit sucessfully. I'm not sure if I updated the remote unit as it turned off repeatedly while updating. I'll report on whether the update solved the auto on issue. Again, thanks for all the advice.

 

[coreychamness]

The remote unit has it's own update cycle too

 

[aroos]

We're out on our boat for a week and I'm happy to report that the update cured the auto start issue after pulling and reinserting the fuse unlocked the Fusion. The cockpit speaker whine remains 'tho it disappeared when the Fusion fuse was pulled, meaning (I believe) its source is somewhere within the stereo system. Thanks for all your collective help.