Been doing a bunch of electrical/electronics/appearance upgrades. Just did arch/cockpit lighting

Little ducky. When the lights come in i will take pics of the install. Plan is to just take screws out of dash and lean forward to change bulbs i hope. No other access to behind that i know of

Yep, that's all I had to do on mine. Little more than a 5 minute process
 
Little ducky. This is with half done in the dark. Love it. All ya have to do is take screws off and dash pulls out with enough room to change bulbs. Not a bad upgrade for $15
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Yep, nice work.
 
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Re: Been doing a bunch of electrical/electronics upgrades. Just did arch/cockpit ligh

I can assure you that's only working/frisbee/pacer beer.

Beer fridge and a couple of shelves of the beer cabinet at home :)

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Looks like you have the important food groups on hand.
 
LOL. I should really think about drinking some of those in the cabinet.
 
Ok, continued still this year. Had one switch blank available, so now have this on the right end of the dash, so that I can use nice, short, neat cables directly to the phone and tablet mounts.

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Then, finally got the on-board WiFi nailed down. Large omni-directional antenna mounted inside port side arch behind the TV, runs down to coax-USB adapter into a router to create my own network. I changed the SSID to "Undercover FBI Van" just for the LOLs. Where we're docked at the marina doesn't give us great WiFi signal, but this antenna does a great job picking it up. Now, all of the WiFi devices can just be connected to my own network. If we travel, just change the settings on the incoming signal, and not have to change settings on all of the individual devices on the boat (3 Roku TVs, music server tablet, Raymarine screens, phones, laptops, etc.).

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Mounted a 32" TV on the step post in the mid cabin on a hydraulic articulating mount. Tucks up nicely to the port side bulkhead, and pivots/raises/rotates out so that the main cabin has a good view if needed.

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And finally replaced the 13" TV/VCR thing up in the forward berth.

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All TVs are connected to onboard WiFi, and with them being Roku devices, and having DirecTV at home, can really pick up whatever I want. YouTube, HBO, Netflix, Vudu, whatever. Now, just to get things cleaned up, and wait for the weather to get warm, although I'm pretty sure it's never going to get warm again. There was snow on my boat when I got to the marina this morning.
 
I thought about that, but with that 12v plug being way down left on the dash, my quest to not have USB cables draping all over the place to reach the mounts on the starboard window wouldn't have been realized.
 
Oh I hear ya there. Your set up is way cooler but for some of us lessor folks lacking your talents wires are a fact of life;)

Can you share where the steering wheel came from?
 
Those are nice for sure. May have to look into that after the wallet refills a bit.

What did you end up using for iPad/cell mount? I used to do a lot of off-roading and used a scosche mount that worked well.
 

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