[C320-list] Adding Electronics to Pedestal

[Jeffrey Hare]

Hi Dave, 

Radar wasn't in my budget at the time either when I added my C70.  But since
I swore I'd never want to run new wires up the posts again, I bought the
radar cable, and wired it at the same time.  The bulk of the cable currently
sits coiled up out of the way, in the aft locker waiting for a radar dome
someday to connect to.  I can decide to use any of the aft mounted radar
installations, or use an extension and do a mast mount at some future date,
but as far as the C70 goes, it's all hooked up on that end.

It was only a small incremental amount of time to run this extra cable since
all the hard work of tube/pedestal disassembly was already being done for
the C70 install.

-JeffH

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Anderer [mailto:danderer at udel.edu] 
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 10:33 AM
To: Allan.Field at comcast.net; C320-List
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Adding Electronics to Pedestal

On Mar 17, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Allan Field wrote:

> Dave - I was OK until I ran the cable for the RAM mic - it went OK but 
> I think that the real challenge - the point I didn't make very well - 
> is that adding a cable for radar is going to be very tricky.  The RAM 
> mic appears to have taken up space available for the radar cable which 
> I think would go if it was not for the autohelm turn to the motor.  
> You must have drilled a monster hole in the tube in order to get the 
> RAM mic fitting through the tube but even if you did, I don't see how 
> you got the RAM mic fitting past the turn for the autohelm.  Or did 
> you cut the RAM mic cable like I wound up doing? - Allan

I too cut the RAM cable - saw no way it would work otherwise.

Now radar isn't in my budget, but I can imagine that'd be difficult to fit
in the remaining space.