What upgrades have you done to your boat?
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Those look great BB! You can't go wrong with good amps. Mine is 800 watts for the 4 cabin speakers. The head unit powers the bow speakers, and my subwoofer has a 500 watt mono amp. It is crystal clear and can be cranked way louder than anything I'm used to..
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Looking good! Add the sub! Even if it sounds great now you will like (I can tell by now) the sub (and another amp) I assure you!
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I pulled the sub out for now.it's a heavy beast. Heck I think it weighs as much as a kid. I'll wait till I get the amp in and the speakers rewired see how it sounds then I might have to get another amp. It looks like cobalt ran two 12v wires there for amps. They could be heavier guage though. Not sure why they didn't do that.
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Ok I got the amp in and temp wired up. I'm changing all the speaker wires. So ok they ran two 8 guage wires feeds for two amps. So I checked power on one and no power. Traced it back to the circuit breaker by the perko. Yep power! So now I have to do more digging. Removed the cover in the engine area to get at the perko and started pulling wires and guess what it's disconnected there. So I tested number two amp wire and it had power. Cobalt never connected both of them. Unreal. So got the amp installed looks great works great. When I run new speaker wires I'll run RGB Cable along and put it to a led Bluetooth controller for the speaker leds. Right now I just have them on the blue led.
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We'll have to meet up. I'm wondering how the wetsounds compare to my polks. I still need to add the amp though.
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Looks terrific!
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That looks fantastic BB! You might want to think about running a separate switch for any of the blue lights in the bow. I'm going to have to add a cut off switch from my blue LEDs in the front Cubbies so I can see while I'm navigating at night. You can't see the lights directly and it's a pretty soft glow, but still distracting enough that I want to be able to turn them off.
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Looking sweet!
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Thanks guys . Yt. I hear you but right now the only boating I do at night is in my garage.lol actually all my Leds are connected to my courtesy light switch. All on or all off.
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Post some garage boating pics godamnit!Big Block Power wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:55 pm Thanks guys . Yt. I hear you but right now the only boating I do at night is in my garage.lol actually all my Leds are connected to my courtesy light switch. All on or all off.
Also where the hell did you put that sub?
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The sub actually fits in the storage of the backrest of the bow seats where the amp is.lol I can fit in there.lol
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I rewired all the speakers. So now the bow speakers are going to the head unit and the cockpit speakers are going to amp 1 & amp 2 of the 4 channel amp. Happy so far with speakers and the amp. It's just to hard to set the amp up, but I got it pretty good. I ran rgb wire all the way around the boat for the led lights on speakers and added a $11 Bluetooth color changing controller. Wet sounds wanted $100-$300 for a controller. Works great with the app. Now to get all the fiberglass out of my skin.
I added a 12v outlet in the engine compartment for the air compressor.
I added a 12v outlet in the engine compartment for the air compressor.
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Thanks. I'm looking at a table and base for the cockpit. I have the factory table and leg but I can't find the factory base anywhere. Also thinking of a knee board and wake board rack yet before vacation in two weeks.
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Roswell is who cobalt uses. I'm pretty sure they make a combination rack. Yea that base is different than the current one they are using.
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