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'17 X - outdoor storage speaker bar protection?

geohil

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Anyone with a '17 212X figured out a way to protect the WetSounds soundbar on the tower? Living in rainy Oregon I've noticed that with the tower folded down water collects in the speaker cones. That cannot be good. For now I've taken the half a$$ approach of standing the tower back up and wrapping it with a tarp. I would really like a more permanent solution like a matching cover to the Bimini?
Anyone find a solution?
 

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Anyone with a '17 212X figured out a way to protect the WetSounds soundbar on the tower? Living in rainy Oregon I've noticed that with the tower folded down water collects in the speaker cones. That cannot be good. For now I've taken the half a$$ approach of standing the tower back up and wrapping it with a tarp. I would really like a more permanent solution like a matching cover to the Bimini?
Anyone find a solution?
Can't you rotate the sound bar so it is pointing down when the tower is down? On mine they didn't leave an inch of wiggle room on the wires....but if I were storing it, I'd just unplug the nice plug on it and rotate it.
 

geohil

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Can't you rotate the sound bar so it is pointing down when the tower is down? On mine they didn't leave an inch of wiggle room on the wires....but if I were storing it, I'd just unplug the nice plug on it and rotate it.
For the winter I'll just pull it off and store it in the garage, but for spring and even early summer it would be nice to have it ready for any nice day. I have not tried to rotate it, but I'll check that out when I get home. Just trying to protect my investment. I'm pretty sure that even the rain running down the back side of the speaker over time won't be good for it.
 
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