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A control method and apparatus for regulating the power output of an engine in a marine propulsion system provides the storage of several sets of numerical values in which each numerical value in each set is associated with a particular cylinder of the engine. In addition, each numerical value in ea

A control method and apparatus for regulating the power output of an engine in a marine propulsion system provides the storage of several sets of numerical values in which each numerical value in each set is associated with a particular cylinder of the engine. In addition, each numerical value in each set represents the number of consecutive firing events experienced by each cylinder prior to the occurrence of a skip fire event. A numerical value of zero indicates continuous skip fire events for a particular cylinder and a numerical value equivalent to some predetermined maximum numerical value, such as 255, represents a continuous firing regime for the associated cylinder.

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1. A method for controlling the power output of an internal combustion engine with a manual throttle control, comprising the steps of:providing a homogeneous air/fuel charge originating at a location external to a plurality of cylinders of said engine; storing a plurality of sets of numerical values

1. A method for controlling the power output of an internal combustion engine with a manual throttle control, comprising the steps of:providing a homogeneous air/fuel charge originating at a location external to a plurality of cylinders of said engine; storing a plurality of sets of numerical values, each set of numerical values being associated with a desired power output magnitude of said engine and comprising a plurality of said numerical values, each of said plurality of numerical values within each of said plurality of sets being associated with a specific one of said plurality of cylinders of said engine; determining a desired power output of said engine; measuring an actual power output of said engine; comparing said desired power output with said actual power output; selecting, based on the relative magnitudes of said desired and actual power outputs, a selected one of said plurality of sets of numerical values; and selectively activating and deactivating each of said plurality of cylinders of said engine as a function of said selected one of said plurality of sets of numerical values.