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I generally fish from my 1548 jon boat when I go by myself but when I take a friend along it is usually in my 20' Skeeter. Is there a way to easily swap the livescope system between boats? I'm waiting for delivery and thought I'd throw this out there and see what comes up.
Mine wouldn't be hard to do at all. I guess all you would need is power.
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Easy enough to switch heads between boats, was wondering more about swapping the transducer between boats. Are you using the trolling motor shaft on both boats or one of the transducer poles to swap with some type of base in each boat?
I have a similar setup as you descibe, switching between a 17' Sylvan tin and a 21' glass Skeeter walleye boat.
I mounted a piece of plywood wood with machine screw Tnuts on the backside for the GLS10 module(4.5lbs) to mount with 4 machine screws under the driver helm for quick removal.
Added an extension cable for the Livescope transducer cable from the helm to the bow.
I then can disconnect the transducer at the bow and the extension at the helm module and just leave the extension cable in the Skeeter.
The module gets mounted in a box with 4 studs and connects to the transducer and sits on the front deck for the tin boat use.
The Livescope transducer is stick mounted with a Cisco quick mount with a base plate on each boat.
Depending on how you set up and wire the boats, it can be an easy or PIA exchange between boats.
A extra power cable so each boat has it's own and possibly an extra network cable to the graph, depending on you situation.
My head is mounted to a separate pole
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So long as you run power cables in each boat it shouldn’t be any trouble at all depending on how you mount the transducer. I mounted mine on a separate pole and use a ram mount to connect to boat. You could do that and just buy a ball for each boat.
Yes sir that is how mine is mounted
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Set it up where it is portable like they do for ice fishing and you can carry it anywhere you want to.
I have the same question and would love to see some set ups... I have a 22ft bay boat I mainly use, but also have a fishing pontoon when the family is coming along. I would like an easy way to move the 93sv and transducer to the other boat..
I'm going to mount transducer on another pole, and need to figure out how that mounting/bracket would be also
Found this today and will be using it as a guide. Seems to be about what i'm looking for.
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I made my LS system portable so I can use it either on my boat (2016 Ranger Reata) or on my local enclosed fishing docks. As long as the other boat has a 1.5” Ram ball (preferably in the bow), I can attach my transducer pole to it using the RAM arm I use to attach it to my boat and we’re fishing. (Note: I obviously don’t have the transducer installed in the pic; I was adjusting the length of the pole.)
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I made a mount from an old tm clamp on mount for my jon boat and the electronics are stored in a box like what has already been seen.
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Then I made a stand so the screen would be in arm's distance.
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Everything works great on the jon boat but I was still trying to figure out how to put the unit on my skeeter without drilling holes. The clamp on mount works great on the jon boat but is a no go on the big boat. I still needed a way to swap the transducer but I wanted it on it's own pole so it would act independently of the tm. What I came up with wasn't swapping the poles between boats but making a separate system for the skeeter. Even though the poles are different clamping the transducer from one pole to the other and wrapping with electrical tape takes very little time.
It would be very easy to make this mount a part of the tm and use the tm to scan with but as I said earlier I want to be able to scan without moving the tm. My new mount is basically a 1 1/4" inside a 1" so it will pan however, it pans a bit too easily. To remedy this I added bushings that are snug in the 1 1/4" but is just friction tight on the rotating 1" shaft.
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Have not tested it and it may be a total flop but in theory it should work and best of all I can swap between boats and no drilling in my big boat needed.
Attachment 364135I used a pelican style box from harbor freight. Didn't install an internal battery, use a dedicated group 27 battery in the boat corded to the unit with a trolling motor receptical. Used oar mounts for a kayak to hold the fishing specialities transducer mount. Didn't really build it for portability as much as being able to remove it for security.
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I've my setup so far. Ram mount clamps on top rail of my jon boats. Ball on the Plano box loosens/tightens with a twist and let's me mount the xducer so I can put it on the deck of most boats or the dock.
Take a look at Greg Finn's videos on Youtube. He owns and operates camoriver guide service on Lake Fork, TX. He has a video of how he made his livescope mount out of a ratchet like those used on the boat jack on a boat trailer tongue. I think you can find the video under camoriver guide service videos on youtube. It's the video on "Introducing LiveScope."
I had mine in a milk crate, with powerpole connectors on the power, so I could unplug and move between my Alweld and my kayak. This was such a hassle, I ended up buying another PLS system for the kayak. Its only money <ducking>. My investments have been doing very well.
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That's the exact set up I have, the only difference is I am using 2 - 12V/7.5 Ah batteries to power my system.Quote:
Originally Posted by StrykerTN
I use the Apache boxes from Harbor Freight and 2 of the cheap game camera batteries from Walmart. I have the transducer on a fishing specialties mount.
Nice setup! I pulled all of the foam out of the box to allow the sonar module more area to displace heat, also allowed me to coil all the cables inside the box with just enough outside to reach the tranducer mount. How much run time do you get with the batteries?Quote:
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I have ran it for 7 hours straight and still showing 11.4 volts when I turned it off. I would suspect 9-10 hours of continuous use before it shuts down. I have read that adjusting the backlight on the 93sv will help with battery consumption but so far I have kept mine on 100%.
which size case are you using? Really like your set up.Quote:
Originally Posted by StrykerTN
I did the Livescope installation inside a 30 quart Engels cooler. There's a YouTube video of a guy mounting a unit inside a magellan cooler. I copied mine similar to his. My transducer pole attaches to a D size ram mount on the side of my Bay Boat. Add another ram mount to your pontoon boat Orion 70 and you could switch between your boats.
Did you run the batteries one for each unit or run them in parallel ? Could you post a picture of your management of the transducer cable? ThanksQuote:
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Could you post a picture of the inside of the box and your routing/management of the transducer cable? ThanksQuote:
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Sorry but I have disassembled it and mounted it permanently in the boat. Looked back and couldn't find any pics of the inside of the box. I drilled two holes
just behind where the head unit is mounted for the power cable, network cable from the livescope black box and the Si/Di transducer, this also allowed it to breathe. Had a hole in the back for the cables to the transducers. Mounted the Blackbox on plastic standoffs to help with keeping it cool. After I had everything connected I just coiled the extra cables up neatly inside the box. I still have the box in my storage shed, I'll try to get you a pic of it.