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Raymarine eS78 + Quantum radome + Fusion MS-RA205 + custom dash

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Got myself a little birthday present...



This guy is waiting to be mounted. Note the Navisafe light base 4200'ed to the top.



Also a Fusion MS-RA205 mounted under the dash, fully controlled through the touch screen. Stock stereo location is becoming a switch panel. I'm drooling over completely eliminating the stock gauges and adding another screen with a NMEA converter...
 

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Beautiful!!!
 

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I like it!
 

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Wow, I am really feeling the need to copy you!
 

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The dash was actually really easy, probably took me an hour with a dremel, jig saw and hole saw. Get one of these panels, http://www.amazon.com/Carbon-Fiber-sheet-gauge-panels/dp/B00LOCH6MI , trace the stock dash onto it, cut out with jig saw, and sand the edges. Then just cut holes for whatever you want to mount.

I'm going to make a panel that fits where the stock stereo goes very soon, and put in actual switches for all my upgrades. As of now I'm turning everything on/off by unscrewing the wires from my power bus bar.
 

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About an hour on the lathe/mill after my aluminum showed up, and we have a nice polished radome mount :) Going up later today.

 

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And mounted... might have to just wrap the power cable around the tower for now and fish down the 10-strand wire later, I'm about to die of heat stroke. No thick data cable needed, it's wifi :)


Ignore the flipped up solar panel, I had to get under it to mount the tower speaker.


The second MFD idea is out. I printed the mounting template for the smallest a65 version and there's no fitting it. A pair of these i70s might be nice though...
 
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Pretty much all done, didn't think it would take all day but getting a stiff 18-10 wire up the tower was way more work than I expected.

Radar and FusionLink operating, mostly picking up tree branches surrounding the dome.



A shot of the MS-RA205 and the amp. Wiring is temporary, I'm going to rework the entire harness down there after I have the new switch panels in.


Lots of room for future expansion here. 5-way Seatalk-ng (aka nmea2000 with overpriced connectors) and 6-way nmea blocks.
 

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Sorry. But that tower looks naked without a Satellite TV dome.
 

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It looks great and that is some nice equipment! I'm am a little confused though.
Let's just say that half the upgrades on this boat were purchased during a long day of drinking on my friend's dock :rolleyes: Actually...the boat pretty much was too. It should come in handy for night boating though.
 
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