Introducing JB Solutions

[Adrian @ JB Solutions]

Hello everyone,

A longtime friend and I have decided to take our car and marine stereo experience and passion for Jet Boats and turn it into a business. Combined we have nearly 30 years in the 12v industry and over 15 years with Yamaha Jet Boats. This has been in the works for a year or so now, and was delayed due to a new baby girl and a move from Tampa to Nashville.. but now we are ready!

We have a multitude of products in the pipeline as the company the grows. However, we are launching with custom harnesses. We are aware there are several options to choose from when it comes to harnesses and aim to provide the best quality and service possible. Our harnesses are designed by my partner, who is an experienced engineer at one of the largest 12v companies in the country, and they are manufactured in the same factory that companies such as Pioneer, Alpine, and Kenwood use.

While we are developing our website (more difficult than I expected), we are offering sales through the forum and Facebook for the time being.

Our initial product launch includes:

• Yamaha Transducer T-Harness $49.99 (In-stock and ready to ship)
  • Multi-functional harness that allows for plug and play replacement to an aftermarket NMEA2000 adapter AND/OR the ability to integrate the transducer into an aftermarket MFD. This will work on the 22' and 25' boats.
  • We have a design tested and confirmed for older boats as well, such as the 21' series and 19' series. If the demand is there, we can order them in stock.
  • 
• Wet-Sounds Speaker Harness (Pair) - $19.99 (Ready to ship by end of month)
  • A pair of speaker harnesses that allow for plug and play replacement of new speakers in WetSounds equipped boats.
  • 
• Wetsounds Amplifier Integration Harness - Reg $149.99 - Preorder Sale - $99.99 - Ready to ship within 45 days.
  • Multi-purpose t-harness that allows you to either add amplifiers to the factory system or fully remove and replace the OEM system. This harness has plugs to the OEM harness and to the WetSounds amplifier and offers 3 sets of labeled RCAs to each factory zone, as well as a remote turn on wire.
  • This harness can also be used in reverse to add a factory Wet-Sounds amplifier to a boat that did not come equipped with it.
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• WetSounds Amplifier Speaker Harness (Ready to ship within 90 days) ($74.99)
  • Multi-purpose harnesses that include the OEM speaker plug and the Wetsounds speaker plug. These harnesses are designed for one end to be cut off. The primary purpose is to allow quick installation of an amplifier and retain OEM hardware. Plug in one side of this harness to the boat's OEM harness and then cut-off the OEM Amplifier plug to quickly wire in your speakers.
  • This harness can also be used in reverse to add a factory Wet-Sounds amplifier to a boat that did not come equipped with it.
  • This includes the 8-pin speaker harness and the 4-pin speaker harness.
  • (Harness pictures coming soon)
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• Yamaha Standard Stereo Harness ($49.99) (ready to ship in 90 days)
  • Allows for replacement of stereos in boat using the standard 12 pin connector (commonly found on the 19' and 21' boats)
  • We are working to confirm that this harness will work on the SX/AR250.
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We are extremely excited to offer these products and are happy to answer any questions and help with installation or stereo guidance as well.

Thank you,

Adrian Phillips

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Best of luck ! Plug and play solutions are great!

 

[anmut]

This is good stuff. Any thoughts on making harness that would allow for the replacement of the Connext LCD with a known product from Garmin or Simrad?? You'd have nearly every Yamaha owner on board with that!

 

[farrelltravis]

We did WetSounds on our Yamaha years ago. I wish those wiring harnesses were available back then! Very cool!

 

[Adrian @ JB Solutions]

This is good stuff. Any thoughts on making harness that would allow for the replacement of the Connext LCD with a known product from Garmin or Simrad?? You'd have nearly every Yamaha owner on board with that!

Thoughts… yes. We know it’s a highly requested item, especially with the failure rate of the screens.

We have a high level view of how to tackle it, who to engage and the tools needed, but it requires a financial investment that we currently are working towards. In short, it is absolutely something we want to offer in the future. We also have some integration ideas for the future regarding the larger modern oem screens.

 

[anmut]

Thoughts… yes. We know it’s a highly requested item, especially with the failure rate of the screens.

We have a high level view of how to tackle it, who to engage and the tools needed, but it requires a financial investment that we currently are working towards. In short, it is absolutely something we want to offer in the future. We also have some integration ideas for the future regarding the larger modern oem screens.

Very cool! Yes, in my mind if you could port engine data, audio, depth out of the current Yamaha system and into a Simrad, and make more data and controls available (like coolant temp / aux switching) and have it work out of box with a off the shelf unit - I'd be willing to pay $1000 for something like that (before adding the display). It would certainly extend the life of many of these boats and make them much more valuable on the used market.

Edit: there's some really smart people on this forum from a whole bunch of industries, you might consider looking here for tech and investment when you get to that point.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Very cool! Yes, in my mind if you could port engine data, audio, depth out of the current Yamaha system and into a Simrad, and make more data and controls available (like coolant temp / aux switching) and have it work out of box with a off the shelf unit - I'd be willing to pay $1000 for something like that (before adding the display). It would certainly extend the life of many of these boats and make them much more valuable on the used market.

Edit: there's some really smart people on this forum from a whole bunch of industries, you might consider looking here for tech and investment when you get to that point.

Any MFD that can use NEMA 2000 inputs being integrated to be able to use the OEM outputs would be awesome.. I’d love to be able to have that info on my MFD.

 

[anmut]

Any MFD that can use NEMA 2000 inputs being integrated to be able to use the OEM outputs would be awesome.. I’d love to be able to have that info on my MFD.

So you're saying it's just a mapping of Yamaha's system into NEMA 2000? Or is NEMA 2000 already used and it's just a physical hardware issue?

 

[suke]

Very cool! Yes, in my mind if you could port engine data, audio, depth out of the current Yamaha system and into a Simrad, and make more data and controls available (like coolant temp / aux switching) and have it work out of box with a off the shelf unit - I'd be willing to pay $1000 for something like that (before adding the display). It would certainly extend the life of many of these boats and make them much more valuable on the used market.

Edit: there's some really smart people on this forum from a whole bunch of industries, you might consider looking here for tech and investment when you get to that point.

That would be awesome if we could somehow bypass the Connext system and control everything with a MFD. I'd love to be able to tune my ballast configurations with an MFD rather than the limited connext system.

 

[Adrian @ JB Solutions]

Very cool! Yes, in my mind if you could port engine data, audio, depth out of the current Yamaha system and into a Simrad, and make more data and controls available (like coolant temp / aux switching) and have it work out of box with a off the shelf unit - I'd be willing to pay $1000 for something like that (before adding the display). It would certainly extend the life of many of these boats and make them much more valuable on the used market.

Edit: there's some really smart people on this forum from a whole bunch of industries, you might consider looking here for tech and investment when you get to that point.

Our transducer harness will allow for depth integration into a MFD currently. As far as we know, that is the only piece on the standard NMEA2000 network, but other items did show on the network on our MFD while testing the transducer harness, which we did not dive further into. We are relatively positive the stereo is running on J1939 but haven't dug into it yet.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

So you're saying it's just a mapping of Yamaha's system into NEMA 2000? Or is NEMA 2000 already used and it's just a physical hardware issue?

I don’t know for sure but pretty sure my mfd can read the nema info.

 

[Adrian @ JB Solutions]

I don’t know for sure but pretty sure my mfd can read the nema info.

Any modern MFD should be compatible with most standard marine protocols, including NMEA2000.