Fish Finder In Front Of Bay Boat
This may seem like an odd question but has anyone put a fish finder in the front of their bay boat? I don't see a good way of doing it but am kicking around the idea because I want to be able to see my waypoints as I troll. I hate going back to the helm to look at the fish finder.
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Yep quite a few people on here have a unit on there bow. I will be placing a unit on my bow in the near future. Probably an hds5
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don't they have trolling motor mounted ones so you can move the unit to front or back as desired?
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I have a 7 on the bow with a TM mounted transducer, the 7 is linked to my unit at the helm and synced so whatever is input on one shows on the other. I can troll from the bow and mark a waypoint there and it marks to the helm unit, and vice versa.
I though it was a bit excessive at first, but now if I don't bring the bow unit when I go out I spend the rest of the day wishing I brought it. I hate hollering at the person at the back to see the depth or how my trail is looking if I'm trying to loop back to an area where I got a hit or found structure. Even worse is running back and forth to look... Sent |
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I have an older Garmin unit I mounted up front, no plotter but it does have my depth, water temp, voltage, time, everything but plotter. The main reason I put it on there was for depth. Same as Goooh I got tired at hollering at my son whos on the back, Im sure he was tired on answering!
Everything is mounted on the TM, transducer wiring and head unit, it all folds away with the TM. And for the record, I cut and spliced my transducer wires, all works good. |
Put it on a ram mount on the front of the deck off set to the side a little. If you don't want it in the boat that day you'll just have the ball there. This is how I install units on the bow of most boats seems to keep them out of your way and you can adjust them in many different positions Definatly get a unit that is compatible with your helm unit so you can hook them together using ethernet cable too link too he graphs. If you have Lowrance you can share way points and also use your structure scan transducer that is already installed.
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Hey does anyone have any pictures of how they mounted it on the front and how they ran the wires. I would like to not have the wires showing too much if at all possible. I want it to look clean. At the same time I don't want to drill huge holes in the deck to run the wires through either.
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I read something somewhere that, when you mount you electronics you should not wire the unit to the TM hotwire. It should a seperate wire to the battery.
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If you don't drill hole you will see wires I will post some pictures tomorrow. If your trolling motor is more then 12 volt alpha it will burn the unit up.
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O ok.
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Ok thanks Fishwater. Yes I have a 2000 Purebay with a 24V trolling motor, so that isn't an option for a power source for the fishfinder. Will have to run wires up to the front for power.
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Oh and yes Alphaman you are correct about running separate wires on the trolling motor. No other electronic devices are supposed to be wired to the trolling motor batteries other than the trolling motor. All accessories are supposed to be wired to the start battery. Electrolysis will occur if you wire electronics to the TM circuit/battery which in turn causes corrosion of the electrical connections.
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Check first most boats have an aux power run from the factory
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Anyone have any pictures of how they installed theirs on the front?
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will try and post some pics of mine tomorrow
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Here is a pic of one on the bow.
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Here's mine
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How do you like that ram mount. I have the other kind ball and socket and my hds 7 T. Keeps falling when im in some ruff water. It doesn't hold well at all. What brand is that
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Love mine. That is the ballz out mount. Where you set it is where it stays. Works very well
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Post up a pic of your unit mounted on the ram just like it would be when you go out. Sent |
I like the way it looks clean. On mine ill have to mount the transducer wire to the TM so that wire will be harder to hide. I just wish I could link two Lowrance Elite units to one transducer but I don't think its possible.
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I use a ram mount.
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The position mine is in on the bow puts the unit with the support facing near vertical, it being horizontal like yours would probably be very hard to maintain position without some serious torque on the tightening hardware. Why not a regular mount on your console? Sent |
Idk why I wanted a ram mount. But I'm considering mounting it the regular way now. Since I'm getting a unit for the bow, I will take that ram mount of and mount the unit staight to the console.
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I'm going to read some of the reviews about this swivel mount. It's $29 not bad
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I got a Ram mount for my Elite 5 DSI for Christmas and I plan on using that for the unit up front. Im going to buy a larger Elite unit for the helm.
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I took the ram off my console and mounted my hds 7 st8 to my console. I wish I would have done that from the beginning. It Looks alot cleaner
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Yea I wouldn't want the ram mount for the helm. I like the factory mount of the flush mount. The only thing about the flush mount that bothers me is that if you ever have to replace the unit, you better hope that Lowrance makes one the same size. If not then you either have to make a bigger hole or make some ugly plate to partially cover the hole.
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I just mounted my bracket on top console. i just drilled 4 little holes.
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Yep I think that's the best way to go for the help location.
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What size wire is need for a gps on the bow. and can this wire be ran straight to the switch board on the helm? I just looked at my bow and the the only wires I have are my tm wires.
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Here is mine that I mounted last weekend. I was also tired of stepping down to look at console unit. Picked this one up from a fellow Salty Cajun.
I also used a RAM mount for the mount. I also could not fish wiring from the bow to console fuse box so I ran it to the main battery with a fuse link. Anything I looked up on the web said that was the way to go anyway. This pic was from when I was deciding where to drill. (I hate drilling in my boat). Wanted to make sure that is where I wanted it. Minimum 16 gauge wire. Ran the power wire down one of the empty screw holes in the RAM base. |
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That looks clean Fishaholic! Thanks for posting that picture.
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so much more viewing angle adjustability for sun glare, multiple people on front deck. ,etc. |
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Or one of those jlincecum can afford. lol
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😎😎The Balzout mount is the business!!! I can't do the ram mount anymore. Might use my ram mount to support my ipilot.
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That looks REAL GOOD Josh! Very tight!
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That's because I didn't do it, lol
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Josh, do you know who lives in that house in the background?
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No. But you should since they're your neighbors
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Good point! LoL
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That install looks really clean. It helps not having to mount the transducer to the TM. My Elite unit wont talk to the other one so ill have the wires running over the top of the bow to the unit so it wont look quite that clean.
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