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I have SeaDek on my Xpress and it is definitely cooler. Not cool, but cooler. And as you say, as soon as it gets out of the sun it cools off quickly. Very comfortable too. Great product that I would recommend to anyone. Glad you got it on your boat!
Yea, I mentioned for you to go to turf a couple years ago. It is a lot better. And Hydroturf/SeaDeck is definitely cooler than carpet. I’ve had Hydroturf on for 3 years and after power washing it looks brand new. Congrats!
Yea I didn’t use that high dollar stuff. I found some good high recommended stuff from Amazon. I love the bedliner just didn’t fit this setup for sure.
I’ve read several of the comments where individuals disagree with you, and your response is “agree to disagree.” Why caught you just say the same thing about Hank Parker? I personally don’t think that FFS is so bad, just a different way of fishing. It will live or die on its own merit!
So if I want to run this in a trolling application! How would I set it up? Cause I would need it looking behind my boat at my down rigger? Any info would be awesome.
I have been watching your class on batteries, cables, and with my setup. I use a Bonified SS107 with a Dewalt 20v battery thru a Seelite adapter to a Garmin 93 SV and Black Box and 3-4 hours in Panoptics with 16 volts on my graph.
Never Lead Acid battery. AGM (Glass Mat) or LiPo (Lithium Phosphate). I switched to LiPo vs new AGM batteries due to lightness. I pull my batteries in Fall, carry to basement and then bring up from basement to reinstall four-five months later. AGM Group 31 size batteries weigh 65lbs. And the LiPo weigh 28-32lbs. Did it as “preventative” from physical injury which will kill all my fishing. Plus, “runtime” for Lithium is 100% power for about 90% of the batteries charge vs AGM that loses power as the battery drains! Amazing. But, the price of Lithium just kills me! Be well.
I just want to give a big thumbs up and thank you to Randy Carpenter the Garmin Guru , the man Always there for messages and questions Very prompted to help and answer questions I got his favorite version update on a sd card for a very reasonable price I got it installed on a force update and ready to go see what it looks like Had a question and messaged him and got a response right away Thank you Randy People this guy is the real deal Ready to help us all I know some folks will find fault in him and probably this message but I believe more good will come from this Tell people to join it’s worth it
That dark floor must get extremely hot down south. I've always made sure to do lighter grey or tan. Even here in Northern Minnesota dark surfaces get really hot on sunny days.
Looks great. I’ve been putting off cutting my old Xpress for years. My carpet is totally shot now so I’ll be installing the tray before I put in sea deck.
For those boats that have a plywood fiberglass covered deck, the edges need to be sealed with a coating of glass to keep water from entering the wood thru the edges.
More than enough. I fished for almost 8 hours at fork afterwards and still had 90% left. Most people are so used to having these huge lead acid batteries that are so inefficient that they do t realize how little you actually need
I have two 125ah, 12v Ionic batteries dedicated to my MinnKota Ulterra Trolling motor. I will run down the two batteries to around 20% in approximately 3 hours when Spotlocked in current greater than 3mph. Bluetooth helps you keep current on your batteries power.
@@muskietime that sounds like a lot of inefficiency in that trolling motor. My ultrex was bad about going thru batteries quickly. Force much more efficient
A Minn Kota Riptide Ulterra 24 volt Trolling Motor has a maximum draw of 56 amps thus if running the motor at level 10, you will run through a 100 amp hour battery in less than two hours. A 24 volt Garmin Force has a maximum electrical draw of 57 amps per the Garmin website. Other than when I am in saltwater Spotlocked by a bridge in heavy current or on a Canadian Shield Lake Spotlocked fishing a neck down area, I have never worried about having enough electrical juice.
Good idea especially for the boat. You can also pull out individual boxes to go shore fish with or throw in your fishing backpack! Bam nice find!! Fish on!!!
I'm running a echomap ultra 106sv, lvs34 system & a steady cast on my kayak & my screen has always looked great. I have a diy battery box with a 4-5 foot piece of 10 gauge marine grade wire to a blue sea bus bar up under my hatch that distributes power to each device. The marine wire I used is stranded & individually tinned. Even a short piece of that wire is pricey but you get what you pay for. I could add a kill switch to my battery box but I disconnect it when I'm not on the water. I'm using a 14.8v amped outdoors lithium battery but when it's charged I'm ready 16.3 at my units
We have watched on various videos on garmin that says the opposite position of the transducer of what you said. We have always had problems with it. But what you teach makes sense. No one ever said where the cameras/ sensors are; so we changed our starboard side per your instructions & so far it is working great. Can't wait to try it out in deeper water. Thanks!😮
Getting a Garmin force 50 and a livescope bundle with a Echomap 106sv. Will it plug and play or have to be updated. That update thing is something I have no idea to do and I’m not real computer savvy.
I had Shut Up & Fish in Lewisville TX rewire my 2019 ZX250 front to back. The wire is tinned, I'm now pulling 13.4 volts front to back on my Garmins w/LVS34. I'm running 5 batteries
