Axius Gen1 boat personality file

[tpenfield]

Basically it's the parameters of the boat including (but not limited to) length, beam, draft, windage, mass, centres of gravity, buoyancy, locations of thrust and drag, planing speed, power of the engines.... etc, etc, etc.

It's what the CPU uses to calculate how to apply power and in which directions to achieve the boat moving in the direction you push the joystick.

If you have access to your boat's personality file, BACK IT UP!

Chris........

Thanks, @achris . . . Not too sure about my boat's 'personaility' other than it has a mind of its own when it comes to joysticking. I am still getting used to it, but all too often it seems to want to back the boat up rather than rotate it with like movements of the joystick.

I often revert to the old school way of spinning/positioning the boat.

As for the OP, hopefully you can find some Cobalt owners willing to share their file. I would imagine that the previous owner of the boat got fed up with all the complexities of the tech stuff and reverted to traditional controls.

 

[nola mike]

Thanks, @achris . . . Not too sure about my boat's 'personaility' other than it has a mind of its own when it comes to joysticking.

You and the op got stuck with "asshole" it seems

 

[Scott Danforth]

There was a thread you started 1.5 years ago doing the exact thing

Axius repair on used boat Cobalt 303

Hello from Greece. I just bought a used 2010 Cobalt 303 with 2x377mags axius. The boat is in very good condition and engines-drives as well but I have a problem. The boat was equipped with vesselview,axius system and skyhook. But something happened and previous owner bypassed axius and changed...

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[silver_power]

There was a thread you started 1.5 years ago doing the exact thing

Axius repair on used boat Cobalt 303

Hello from Greece. I just bought a used 2010 Cobalt 303 with 2x377mags axius. The boat is in very good condition and engines-drives as well but I have a problem. The boat was equipped with vesselview,axius system and skyhook. But something happened and previous owner bypassed axius and changed...

forums.iboats.com

Yes, I made this post when I bought this boat. I have put every axius component (found tvm actuators etc) back in place and now I stucked to the calibration of the system which need the personality file. ....I hope tomorrow to have some good news from Cobalt......

 

[Frankec3]

Hello, i recently bought a used Cobalt 303 with 2010 axius Gen1 system. The boat had problem and previous owner unistalled the axius components (actuators from both engines and steering pump, HP filters etc from starboard engine) and converted it to classic cable steering system with a tie bar between two drives.
So, i found two actuators and every component needed to make axius work again as the rest of the ecectronics were been installed.
The mechanic calibrated the components but cannot calibrate the actuators.
For now, everything seems to be ok, BUT, steering actuators are locked with no response at all.Now the problem is that G3 software of the mechanic, asks for the boat's personality file.
I tried to contact Cobalt but i am still waiting as they told me that they do not have it and i must contact Mercruiser. Mercruiser told me that i must contact boat manufacturer first and after thew will see what they can do........
The fact now is that my boat has no steering and so it can not work.
My mechanic told me that even a "boat personality" file from other boat would unlock the actuators and allow him to make the calibrations. In this case the boat will have at least the steering system and it could work. Obviously the joystick would not be accurate but the most important is to have steering.
This Cobalt 303 is 2010model, Axius GEN1, with 2x mercruiser 377mag's mpi B3.
Here in Greece are really few boats with sterndrive axius system (5to 10 max) and so i can not find a file
I hope to find a solution from Cobalt but in case they tell me "sorry we can not make anything",....i have two solutions.
1. To sell the boat
2. To unistall all the parts i bought and installed and put again the classic cable steering system.
I hope you see how big is the problem.....
Thank you very much!!

Hello, i am curious about this post, i am currently trying to remove the Axius form my boat. i lost steering while on plane and lost control of the boat. luckily i was in open water but it did throw my passengers on board around pretty violently. do you know how the previous owner was able to remove it and have the rest of the boat function properly?