Thread: Livescope black box location

Originally Posted by Cray

On my stick steer I have mine mounted on small shelf by my right elbow out in the sun. Haven’t had any overheating problems yet with sun beaming down on it. My boat is like yours, limited storage and most are angled to side of hull impossible to mount. Also have seen pictures where guys have theirs mounted on stand right below head unit.

Thanks for the reply Charlie. I called Garmin yesterday and talked to their tech support. I asked them about mounting it on top of the deck. The guy said there was no issue putting it on the deck. I told him they might want to put that in their instructions because every post I'd read on any internet fishing forum said you needed to put them in a compartment to keep them out of the sun but they weren't going to get any ventilation in a compartment.

Originally Posted by FurFlyin

Thanks for the reply Charlie. I called Garmin yesterday and talked to their tech support. I asked them about mounting it on top of the deck. The guy said there was no issue putting it on the deck. I told him they might want to put that in their instructions because every post I'd read on any internet fishing forum said you needed to put them in a compartment to keep them out of the sun but they weren't going to get any ventilation in a compartment.

I have got to where I take a lot of posts on other forums with a grain of salt. So many people have gotten to be experts with a receipt of purchase ��. The same guy that tells you that will have his unit installed at boat dealer wired to fuse panel with 16 gauge wire and crimp connectors then wonder why his voltage is low.

Cray you just nearly exactly described how the Solix 12 was installed on this boat. I didn’t know that until I started working on it this week. The first couple of times that I took the boat out it was showing a low voltage alarm. So I took the less than 1 year old group 29 Deka AGM cranking battery out of my Xpress and installed it. I went back out a few days later and was still showing low voltage on the Solix. I started pulling the wiring apart Monday to move the Solix to the console and the hot wire fell out of the butt splice it was installed with. First thing, I never use a butt splice on a boat and secondly when I rarely do use a butt splice in other things, I pull on the wires to make sure they won’t come out. The guy that I bought that boat from paid somebody to do a crappy job.