Thanks Dan
If I have enough slack in my cable I may be able to work out something
similar. I was thinking if I made a coil or two and connected them with
small shock cord it would act somewhat like a spring as I swung the display
back and forth. I would probably need to suffer the expense of buying a 15m
cable to achieve this and then I'd have a 10m cable that would be difficult
to sell. Should know in a few weeks as I'm finally getting my radar pole
together.

"Dan Best" wrote in message
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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
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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.