Does anyone have a flat screen installed?
 

Santa brought me a 14" Toshiba LCD/DVD combo. Were is the best place to mount it?

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Ours is mounted over the mirror area

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Same, over the mirror area. I used some aluminum bimini top rail and used the same holes as the mirror. Had it one year and the plastic on the Sharp cracked but it still works.

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I was thinking about maybe using clip-in mounts to have the fexibilty to mount it on the dash to watch in the evening, then have different mounts to watch from the v-berth and maybe another on the first bulkhead as you walk into the cabin. I also saw a factory installation, where they corner mounted it on the other side of the bathroom wall using a nice SST pivot mount.

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Make sure you can mount it solid to where it can't move while runing if on a swivel mount. A buddy had his mounted on a swing arm, only to have it swing around and bang. No good now.

Itilldo, where did you install the outlet?

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I am going to install shore power, ac, a 3-bank charger and the tv at the same time. I just looked at the boat and it looks like it will mount nicely flat against the bathroom wall next to the mirror on my 38.

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I installed shore power, on-board charger hard wired in, and an outlet last winter. What a great upgrade!

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Itilldo, where did you install the outlet?[/QUOTE]


Their is no outlet persay, the actual mirror is gone and the wiring is run thru the hole. The mirror frame itself is still present.


Just for an FYI, our boat is a 29 ft so the actual mounting location will most likely be different.

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How hard was it to install shore power and a charger. How expensive? What components did you use. I would love to have shore power and a on board charger. I imagine it not to be to hard. If I did it I would want it to look as if it came from fountain as an option.

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Peice of cake. Hardest part was drilling the hole in the side for the plug.

1) model 2611 dual battery, full automatic Guest Charger from WM $100 (last spring, in store price)mounted in bilge.
2) SSMarinco plug from WM $100
3)Wiring from WM $70 marine grade wiring, not household from lowes.
4) Paneltronics Shorepanel from Boatersworld $130
It came in black, I painted it white. This is the cheapest price I found anywhere. It has the same breakers as the more expensive,reverse polarity protection, and meter.
The outlet is on the back side facing the sink, just like factory.

Paneltronics panel $130
http://www.boatersworld.com/webapp/w...47#description

Blue Seas Panel $230 (more cha ching for samething)
http://www.boatersworld.com/webapp/w...0029%3Bc342247

Marinco 30 amp plug #147421 $98
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...0001/311/310/9

Charger #2611
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...0001/683/544/9

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Am considering adding LCD/DVD to my 2000 38' on the outside of the front wall of the bathroom (facing the V-berth). Anyone know how to get behind the mirror to do the wiring? Also, how are you guys getting wiring from one side of the cabin to the other? Under the step at the cabin entry?

Finally, anyone ever asked Fountain how much to retrofit factory shorepower, A/C and gen?

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You can run the wiring behind the light panels along the top corners, and thru the nose by removing the forward mirror. Some unused storage space up front in the beak.

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I am not sure what Fountain would charge, but I purchased all OEM products for the shore power, AC, charger, stainless plumbing, offshore sea strainers with an extra ports for the AC pump and flush systems and I am up to $3,400 in parts alone. The Westerbeke 3.0 gas generator is $6500 for the unit, plus shore/gen switch, plumbing, wiring, exhaust/muffler, water dumps and installation. My guess would be ~$12-15K to do everything. I have the entire parts list for my project if anyone is interested.

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BTW, does anyone know how the countertop comes off?

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I know this isn't as good as real shore power but since I rarely sleep on the boat, I used one of the Guest Sportsman 2622 battery chargers that can deliver 20 amps 12V continuously to run all the accessories as well as charge the batteries. I also added a Xantrex 1750 AC inverter to run the TV/PS2. Those two don't make the inverter work hard enough to cause the cooling fan to run. The vacuum on the other hand ...

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FC,

I'd like to see some pics of where you mounted the charger/inverter...also, do you just use a standard 15A extension cord and adapter to tie into the shorepower?

Gary

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Gary,

The 38 is in storage and I don't seem to have any pix. I mounted the inverter under the port side rear seat and took the power right off the battery selector switch. The charger is in the engine compartment in about the same place on the bulkhead.

The inverter says use as short a 12V line as possible so I have a 1 ft line to inverter and a ran a 10-3 outdoor rated power cord to the plexiglas column in the cabin and a outlet. I also added an extra 12 volt outlet in the column at the same time for the big front Endless Breeze hatch fan.

I can plug the charger or the extension cord into the dock power with an economical Charles 30 amp twist lock (dock side) to a standard 15 amp plug and 25' power cable on the boat side. This was the cheapest and most versitle set up for my limited power needs.

FC

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US1, Thanks for the heads up on the Paneltronics panel.
I liked it so much that I'm ordering it to up grade the stock/factory cheapo unit in there now.
I also like your power point for a phone charger cord.
It's perfect....I have 3 accesories and that panel has 3 place switching.
Here is a pic of what came in the old 42.

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Good deal.
I did have to mill the top and bottom of the panel down just a bit (to the white painted line) to get it to fit in the plexy panel. You being a brother machinist, would be no problem if you need to also.
We use the cig outlet all the time. Got tired of having a cord run to the dash outlet. Beats me why Fountain didn't install one in the cabin.... Works out great because all the 12v and 110V wires circuts are right in that U-shaped plexy panel. made for an easy job.