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Electronics set up?

GPS, Sonar, Radar, Fishfinder, etc. Discuss electronics installation and upgrades.
Makai
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Re: Electronics set up?

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Sixtfour
I forgot to mention that I had the new faceplate made at Cay electronics in Portsmouth RI , I drew up what I wanted and gave them hole sizes , plates were ready in 2 days at a cost of $150
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Re: Electronics set up?

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Makai wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2020 4:57 pm Sixtfour
I forgot to mention that I had the new faceplate made at Cay electronics in Portsmouth RI , I drew up what I wanted and gave them hole sizes , plates were ready in 2 days at a cost of $150


That sounds awesome, got any pictures?
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Spent the early part of covid lockdown installing a new Axiom 9 in the factory overhead box. Interfaced basic seatalk messaging with my 20 yr old Pathfinder radar and smartpilot. When I can get a haul out gonna install dual flush mount RV transducers.
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Looks great!
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]My boat uses ram mounts for (2) 1042 garmins. Radio is on top of the dash and autopilot is in the dash
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I installed 2 Axiom MFD’s along with radar, AP and Flir. Very happy with the performance of all. The new equipment takes a bit more tweaking to get everything dialed in but the capabilities are tremendous.
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Re: Electronics set up?

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MK, do you also have an old sounder communicating via Seatalk to the Axiom?
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MerryKate wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 7:44 pm Spent the early part of covid lockdown installing a new Axiom 9 in the factory overhead box. Interfaced basic seatalk messaging with my 20 yr old Pathfinder radar and smartpilot. When I can get a haul out gonna install dual flush mount RV transducers.
Wow, clean installation, clean boat.. :shock:
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Jkraft wrote: Mon May 04, 2020 10:53 am ]My boat uses ram mounts for (2) 1042 garmins. Radio is on top of the dash and autopilot is in the dash
1 plotter scree and 1 radar screens? :shock:
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Re: Electronics set up?

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Norseman wrote: Thu May 07, 2020 9:38 pm
Jkraft wrote: Mon May 04, 2020 10:53 am ]My boat uses ram mounts for (2) 1042 garmins. Radio is on top of the dash and autopilot is in the dash
1 plotter scree and 1 radar screens? :shock:
Yes, or FishFinder. I have them both on ram mounts. If I need to rotate the port one to face aft I can and people fishing can watch the sounder. When running I usually use my starboard plotter on "radar overlay" and the port one on "radar"
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Re: Electronics set up?

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jms02050 wrote: Thu May 07, 2020 5:10 pm MK, do you also have an old sounder communicating via Seatalk to the Axiom?
No, I replaced an old Interphase sonar with the Axiom. Really curious to see how the dual Real Vision transducers perform (got the 20 deg flush mounts to go under the helm seats).

The radar is a circa-1999 SL72 (“Raytheon” branded!) and with a converter cable shares basic SeaTalk-1 messages, like GPS position and bearing, with the Axiom SeaTalk-ng protocol (which is basically NMEA2000). The autopilot is a circa-2005 ST6002. It also shares basic messaging with the Axiom, but the Axiom does NOT control the autopilot via its buttons, although waypoint data communication works fine. This is what I expected going in and am happy with the way the system works.

I use the Axiom wifi screen repeater app with an iPad on a Scanstrut ROKK suction cup mount at the companion seat chart table. Only shows the same screen as the Axiom, but gives someone sitting there a better view.

I also replaced the original 23 yr old VHF with an Icom 330G and new Shakespeare commercial antenna. Were money no object I would have replaced all with a 12” Axiom Pro and new HD Doppler radome, but that would be $5k more and the old radar still works fine. All components were chosen to fit in the original overhead electronics box, which keeps the helm layout clean.
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