Terrova hookup

WHEWWW, got it 100% up front. Setup, wired up and running like a champ!!!! Put a battery on the credit card yesterday but least I got one. Got an Excide 31 and for the moment I have it on a couple of boards on the boat deck but it's wired like it should be,just in a temporary location til the weekend. GOT to hit the water this evening to see how it works. Took all of 3 minutes to hook it up thank goodness. Now the hard part is figuring out exactly where to put the 3rd battery. You'll see in the ground level pic how my rod holder extension ARE NOT jacked up. Center 4 rod holder, I came up with a 3 1/2 inch riser, then a 90 degree coupling, then 5 1/2 inch section of pipe and another 90. Then on the 2, 2 rod holders, added 4 inches to them. I was having to lean over a good bit to grab the poles out of the holders so I was missing alot of fish. Solved that problem with this and it's perfect. Just enough leg room where I'm not cramped in but also just right where I can reach the poles without much effort. I'm very happy with the whole setup now

Still looks janky to me! You gonna love the i-pilot though!

Looks good DD. Do you not have enough room in the back of your boat for the batteries?

What's with the Sanford & Son back yard?

That's OK Feelay, I like it, it works great and that's all that matters. Chris #1, I THINK I can get it in the back box where my cranking battery is. IF I can get it through the dang hole that is. I can biuld a support rack in there and GET SOMEONE TO HELP RUN WIRES. LOL

It's an old shed and I ain't cleaned it up yet. Guess if I wasn't fishing so much, I would have it clean. No hush chunky butt

BTW, looking at yo boat pic. Yo hedges next to the house need trimming REAL BAD and you need to get those boxes of junk out of yo garage

Bout to pull the shrubs completely out, and the boxes are going to goodwill today.

Only reason our shrubs are cut is cause Nessa cut them. LOL

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Originally Posted by DonDon

GET SOMEONE TO HELP RUN WIRES. LOL

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You need a good electrician. The trouble is, there's no such thing as a GOOD electrician!!!! Just like Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny.

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Originally Posted by speck

you need a good electrician. The trouble is, there's no such thing as a good electrician!!!! Just like santa clause and the easter bunny.

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+1Doh

No doubt man. I know how to hook the wires up but not sure how to go about getting the wires from the center console to the back of the boat. . It's got some 1 1/2 inch tubes that have wires coming through them. What's the easiest way to get new wires though there? Just feed them through and HOPE for the best?

I have a used throttle cable i got from a boat shop that was used took it out of the casing it's flexible but stiff so you can push it thru then tape the wires to it and pull them thru.

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Originally Posted by feelay

What's with the Sanford & Son back yard?

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Ya big dummy.

Really like them there 90 degree elbow Don Don Special set backs on that front holder there Mr. Haney. And I totally agree that to put 4 more #6 screw holes in that deck would have been WAAAAAYYYY more trouble.

OK, I'm done.....but now, listen up and listen up real good like. Gooder than ever before. It appears to me that battery is just sitting on top of a piece of plywood. THAT WILL NOT DO!!!! Minimum, you want that backer screwed down and the battery strapped to it. Last thing you want is for it to go east when you're turning west on the road or worse yet, for you to be fiddling with kicking it back in place while running through a stump field. Now.....See to it. Toot Sweet like 'em French fellers would say.

Wannabe...

Its called a fish tape. Just push it through the conduit, tape your wire to it and pull it through. Or use the fish tape to pull a string through the conduit and tie off to the wire and pull it through with the string.

I got 5 bucks says that at the Next FJ, DonDon will be dragging the fish tape that's stuck behind the gunnel behind his boat claiming the hole time that it's way better than a drift sock.

Wannabe...

Don, here is a heads up, when locking the terrova in the stow position slide the lock collar all the way down. If you don't and get premature deployment it will rip that bad boy off the boat. I heard this could happen.

I was being serious yo gewb. I'm right proud I got done what's done and I'm wanting to hook this up the right way. Terrova is installed thanks to Majors help but I got it wired for 36 volts and where it's at is only temporary until the weekend when were supposed to have 25-40 MPH winds. I just put it on the boards to keep it off the deck for a couple trips. We don't have stumps where I'll be fishing the next 2 days, just open water so I ain't worried about it moving around at all. I'm thinking that the heavy gauge ware I have to install for the battery is stiff enough that I can push it right on through. It'll be 2 wires taped together since I have to run 2 wires for the 36 volt to work correctly and that SHOULD be stiff enough. No play nice or stay out of the thread ya gewb. Real and practical advice only allowed

LOL Torch. I'll be careful. I had it down abit ago making sure it worked and was trying to figure out how to raise it since there wasn't a rope to pull it up like I've had on the 3 or 4 TM's I've owned in the past. Had to call Major to ask him how to raise the dang thing. He made sure and tell me to be careful it's locked in place

He really bought those riggs from a democrate leaving the spillway. For all the time and mess, you could have bought Hi-Tek rigs from Scott. Next thing you know, he'll be pulling with a Sanford & Sons type truck.

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Originally Posted by Speck

You need a good electrician. The trouble is, there's no such thing as a GOOD electrician!!!! Just like Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny.

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:eek: I take exception to that, I'm a good electrician, with your comment I take it you are too! :confused:

I think it look real good Don, and I hope you have good use out of the terrova, I like mine a bunch. good luck man

Thanks Beagle. You gonna be able to come to camp man? Sure hope so

OK Fisherman Wantobe. When you coming to Ridgeland to check out my system and HEP ME OUT. I'll take ya on a guided trip on Barnett. Can't promise you'll wear em out but you will catch a few keepers and I'll even buy the adult bevorages. LOL Sounds like a good trade to me. Hours worth of work on the boat for 6 to 8 hours on the Barnett. LOL

Looks good DD. I want one

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Originally Posted by Fisherman_Wantabe

:eek: I take exception to that, I'm a good electrician, with your comment I take it you are too! :confused:

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Yep