24218272 Assisted Docking with Thruster Integration Software, D6-IPS, EVC-E | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

Genuine Volvo Penta software licence 24218272. It combines two Electronic Vessel Control functions in one licence: Assisted Docking, which holds the boat against wind and current while the helmsman places it with the joystick, and thruster integration, which brings the bow thruster into that same joystick so steering, gear and thruster are all worked from the one control. It is the D6-IPS version on the EVC-E generation of Electronic Vessel Control, the last of the lettered generations, and it is ordered one licence per driveline, so a twin installation takes two. It is ordered instead of the separate Assisted Docking (24218273) and Thruster integration (24235737) numbers. The licence is matched to the engine family, the control-system generation and the number of drivelines, so order against the number given for your own installation. Loading the software and configuring the system for it is dealer work.

⚙️ Key Features

• Genuine Volvo Penta part 24218272
• Named for the EVC-E generation of Electronic Vessel Control
• Listed under Ignition and Control Systems
• Combined Assisted Docking and thruster integration software for D6-IPS on EVC-E
• Ordered one per driveline: a twin D6 installation needs two
• Ordered instead of the separate Assisted Docking (24218273) and Thruster integration (24235737) numbers
• Requires the joystick version carrying the thruster button
• EVC generation: EVC-E
• Installation: one kit per driveline
• Engine and drive: D6-IPS

🔌 Function

Volvo Penta accessory kits in this group add or enable a function on the Electronic Vessel Control system - the CAN-bus network that connects the engine, transmission, instruments and helm controls, and the platform the cruise control, trip computer, low-speed mode, joystick and autopilot functions run on. What this particular kit supplies in order to do that is not published.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Assisted Docking option missing or greyed out on the joystick/docking display
• The thruster not responding as part of the docking-assist function, since this one licence has to cover both the docking and thruster-integration sides
• Docking assist working on one engine of a twin D6 installation but not the other, since a software kit is needed per driveline
• The function not returning after the Steering and Thruster Control Module or joystick is replaced

🛠️ Service Notes

• Electronic Vessel Control accessories are tied to the system generation - Volvo Penta's accessories catalogue quotes a required generation against each item, so establish which generation your boat runs before ordering
• That same catalogue splits its features into ones a dealer can retrofit, ones a dealer can retrofit but only with major installation work, and ones fitted only when the boat is built - worth settling which of the three you are dealing with before buying hardware
• Nothing is published about the contents of this kit, so ask your dealer to confirm what is in the box against the parts you actually need
• Order one software kit per driveline: the bulletin's own example is that a twin D6 installation needs two of this kit
• Retrofit prerequisite: Dynamic Positioning System (DPS) software is required in addition to this kit
• Retrofit prerequisite: the thruster side on EVC-E needs the Steering and Thruster Control Module 22685460 with S-link adapter cable 22673876, a thruster interface from Volvo Penta and a proportional bow thruster from Sleipner
• Upper gear IPS1-A to IPS1-C has to be upgraded to IPS1-D to F before Assisted Docking and the Dynamic Positioning System will function

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

OEM / Related Numbers

• Assisted docking only: 24218273
• Thruster integration only: 24235737

📦 Condition

• Genuine Volvo Penta part
• Brand new
• Supplied in original or equivalent packaging