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Radio and lighting upgrade to 2023 AR195

xtreme96gs

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Finally swapped out the radio and added some lights. Started with the wet sounds mc1 head unit, md2 secondary display for the swim platform, and shadowcaster 4 zone controller. Found that the factory plug from the Jensen was a molex 12 pin connector available on amazing for about $9- so ordered that and added to the loose wires on the mc1 to make entire unit plug-n-play. Also added a constant 12v independent of the battery switch straight into an empty terminal of the factory plug. The wire is coming off of a a bus bar I’ve added to supply power to the shadow caster, as well as a negative bus bar. Shadow caster is 4 zones, all controlled by the mc1. Zone 1 is going to 12 RGB accent lights inside the boat. Zone 2 is going to the 4 RGB 6.5” speakers. Zone 4 is 4 more of the accent lights on the swim platform, and two 15” RGB led strips in the cavities behind the backrests on the platform. I’ll still be adding 2 drain plug lights to zone 4, two tower speaker RGBs to zone 2, and zone 3 will run roughly 16’ of RGB led strips under all of the backrests inside the boat. (Videos of all lights keeps saying file too large to upload lol)
 

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