St. Louis Dave wrote:
Look at Lowrance too. I love my 522ci
I would be careful of Lowrance!! I have been fighting with them for the past year. I bought a Elite-5DSI sonar, I am not getting that HD look as their web site shows. Plus, it is not outputting NMEA 0183 for depth as advertised. After talking with 5 techs, the 5th one came back & said "it was not made to out put any sonar info." So they up graded me to the same model, but with a GPS. It still will not output sonar, but will output GPS info and still no HD info being displayed. I have not even seen, one fish!! I tech out of there N.H. office said, "that model is more to see the bottom, than to find fish."
At this point, I was so upset, I bought a Garmin 541S to replace it!! It is NMEA 2000, so it should have no problems hooking it up to the boats network & sending the info out. Can you tell I am P!@#ed.
Sorry to get off the subject!! The remote for the LED lights are nice to have. More so, when returning from one of the islands in the harbor at night. We get in the inflatable & when were about 200 feet way. The remote can turn on the flood LED lights on the arch so we can see.
Someone also asked about wiring them in. On some LED, not all, you MUST go POS to POS in your connections. I would use tinned (marine) wire and wire nuts/butt connectors with a little sealant. I wired most of them off the nearest courtesy light/s. Turn the courtesy light switch, the new lights come on. The engine compartment and the arch I added. I took an unused fuse curcuit from the panel and ran it to the helm. From there I used a 2 switches.
http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?pat ... id=1487723 From the switches, I then ran a ground & and the hot side of each switch to were it needs to go. One to the arch & one to the engine compartment.