If (hypothetical question)

[c_j]

If you had bought a boat with a 7" display RL72 Chart plotter/Radar but your eysight was going and you wanted a 10" colour display, and the nice people at Raymarine said that if you kept the 7" system in the loop it would save you £500 on the cost of the 10" display (because the 10" would only need to be the Chartplotter and it could pick up the radar from the other unit) (everybody keeping up?) Then where would you put the 7" display bearing in mind this is not a flybridge boat we are talking about, but a boat that has room for the 10" display at the helm but the 7" as well would need some thinking about.
Or would you say sod it pay the other £500 and try and sell the 7" bearing in mind that it could provide a good backup in the event of breakdown, and not only that it would provide seperate screen Radar. One solution I have seen to this was to obtain cowling to mount second display on. Where would one obtain carbon fibre instrument mounting cowling?

I don't feel well.



CJ
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[hlb]

I can understand your problem. I would save the £500 at all costs. Does that sound right?? Maybe mount the 7in in a cupboard.

<font color=blue> Haydn

 

[Stingo]

You could mount the 7" just above my chart table.

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[Stingo]

There are a few companies that make instrument consoles. Edison Europe (might be Edson International - they're in Portsmouth very close to the Lewmar factory) is one that springs to mind. There is another company whose main product is wheels and steering and for the life of me I cannot remember their name - something like Whitehead... There's going to be another forum user who will correct me.

You could ask Raymarine who makes instrument consoles...

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Chris

Errrrr.........hummmmm....... buy a flybridge !!

I did give you first refusal !

Sorry, helpful not.

Adrian

 

[c_j]

I already told you, I am not old enough for a flybridge yet ;-)

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[adarcy]

Re: Ah but

do you need to be able to reach the 7in thingy to control the radar picture on the 10 in one?
If not, mount it somewhere inside preferably where it can be peered at from outside (in case the 10 in karks it) and you can then look at it whilst eating/drinking when down below with the radar running - do people do things like this? Hmmmm

 

[coliholic]

Or you could pop in to Boots and buy yourself a pair of reading specs for a tenner and solve two problems at once.

First you'd be able to see the 7inch one properly and two you'd save loads of money.

Anyway who's to say a ten inch one is better than a seven inch one. Apart from Pauline of course.

 

[c_j]

Actually I did that with my previous Garmin 210 and it was Tesco's and £3.95 but if it is sunny its a pain in the arse taking off the Sunglasses and putting on the Specs, anyway SWMBO said they made me look (more) decrepid, and I know you can get those Sunglasses in th back of some boaty mags that are sunglasses and reading glasses, but I am a fashion victim and I need my Oakeys.



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[c_j]

Re: Ah but

NO and this is the clever bit, the system HSB2 (I think they now call it) allows you to control both from both even if chart is loaded in other.

I did think it could be mounted in the saloon as I could use it down there to plot etc.

But I actually hate having duplicated anything and I really have to convince myself that it will be really usefull. I know the safety thing but normally with electronic stuff that means staring at two blank screens instead of one!


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[hlb]

Huh. Tutts gets my reading glasses for £1-50 per pair. Buys them in bulk as I'm forever, breaking or scratching them. Lost the last 80 quid pair down with the anchor in Alderney, if anyones passing through. Maybe thats what you need. I can manage with a seven inch green screen. May be I should add special nautical glasses to my growing on line chandelry.

Flags.
Polo Shirts.
Soltron.
Extra special nautical, waterproof glasses 12 quid a pair. Save £500 on radar screens.

<font color=blue> Haydn

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

You tight git, Chris. You've just spent the price of Scottish castle on a fancy new boat and you're whining about spending £500. In any case mounting the 7" in a naff box or a bracket on the dashboard is going to block your view of the engine guages on the T48. Get yer wallet out, man

 

[c_j]

Thanks Mike, at last some sensible advice on this forum. I don't know what I was thinking about. But it is still a hypothetical question ;-)



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