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Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 12:43 am
by Ytmsn
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..
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 7:16 am
by Southernboatman
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!
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 7:38 am
by Big Block Power
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.
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 7:56 pm
by Big Block Power
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.
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 8:32 pm
by Bfun220
We'll have to meet up. I'm wondering how the wetsounds compare to my polks. I still need to add the amp though.
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 10:27 pm
by Southernboatman
Looks terrific!
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 8:38 pm
by Ytmsn
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.
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 8:53 pm
by Tuscany
Looking sweet!
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:55 pm
by Big Block Power
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.
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 12:01 pm
by liquid
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.
Post some garage boating pics godamnit!
Also where the hell did you put that sub?
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 12:29 pm
by Big Block Power
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
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 4:56 pm
by Big Block Power
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.
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 5:27 pm
by Skiingstrongman
Nice work!
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 5:41 pm
by Big Block Power
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.
Re: What upgrades have you done to your boat?
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 8:05 pm
by Skiingstrongman
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.