Gordon,
Our display-to-scanner cable drops down about 18" before heading aft
through a hole in a cabinet. This plus a little slack in the cable
makes it so the cable is not unduly flexed or stressed when the arm is
swung in or out.

Hope this helps - Dan

Gordon Wedman wrote:

"rhys" wrote in message
...

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:35:24 GMT, Dan Best
wrote:


I have two singout arms in my hatchway. The raday display is on one and
a gps/fish finder is on the other. Unfortunately, there just wasn't
quite enough room to attach both devices to just one arm, my hatch just
isn't tall enough to have them one above the other. When both are
deployed so the helmsman can see them, it's a little inconvienient since
to in or out of the hatch, you have to either carefully step over them
or swing one of them out of the way. In reality, this is not a big deal
since the radar is only rarely used (but when we do use it, we are
REALLY glad we have it).

Exactly. Would love to see pictures and how you routed the power and
other cables to (presumably) the nav station/DC panel.

R.


I'm in the process of installing a JRC 2000 radar on my boat. The first
thing I did was install the display. I wanted to be able to see it/operate
it without going below. I'm using 2 horizontal RAM mount arms attached to
one of there vertical mount bases. This is bolted to a small cabinet on the
inside of the bulkhead. I can swing the display out so that I can see it
from the wheel but I don't think I'll be able to see fine detail (don't know
for sure as not fully operational yet). In this position the display blocks
access to below. I can, however swing it to the side so that I can go
forward to look at it and also go below easily. The cables are an issue
I've been wrestling with. The power and NMEA cables are not really a
problem as they are small diameter flexible wire. Easy to route. Its the
display-to-scanner cable that is the problem. Big cable and not that
flexible. I think I may have to disconnect it each time I swing the display
into its storage position inside the boat, against the cabinet. To route
this cable to the stern I'm thinking I will have to glue some white 1"
diameter water pipe to the overhead in the 1/4 berth and feed the cable
through that as I cannot get above the head liner and I need some play in
the cable. When not in use I will have a bracket on the cabinet where I can
store the cable. It will work but its not going to be as neat as I would
like.