My apologies; I can't figure out how to edit a prior post:
Did you ever wish you had a fully capable computer and
monitor for your
boat, rather than trying to squint at a
phone or a tablet?* I have just what you need, at only $400
The full description is in the attached document “AC/DC
Boat Computer System” – but you’d have to search diligently to find something missing. *
Everything but the laser printer will run on the clean
power 12VDC provided by the Buck-Boost transformer, or the 5VDC equivalent which runs the added 4 USB port hub (for a total of 11 usable USB ports).
The 24” MagInnovision
monitor has a bulkhead mount as well as a stand mount, should you wish to use it to watch movies, as we did, selected from the full terabyte of movies on one of the external hard drives.
Or perhaps you want to listen to some of the 500GB of
music of all genres from Medieval to Baroque through Rap, using one of the provided
cables to feed your sound system – which is also how you’d hear your movies.
Want to make sure you have everything backed up?* The two 2TB drives will handle that with aplomb.
You want a nav-station
chartplotter with a 24”
screen?*
OpenCPN, full
charts for US
east coast and
Bahamas, and a
GPS puck to tell you where you are accompany the IslandTimePC Mini-ITX format,
DVD RW+/-,
Serial, Parallel, 3 versions of monitor connections, and a plethora of USB connections allow you all the comforts of home.
You say that your boat is fully 120VAC?* No worries.* So’s every one of these devices, and you have a 5-port AC switched
power supply to operate them independently, as the base for the no-fly (stable in heavy seas) laser printer which outputs no-run printed pages.
In my application, I mounted virtually everything other than the monitor and the face of the computer out of sight, under a shelf, secured by straps.* I mounted the monitor on the bulkhead in the front of the nav station, and the face of the computer was available under it. For movies, we sat opposite the
screen and speakers for a theater experience.* I lifted the monitor out of the bulkhead mount, reattached the original base (one screw), plugged in the included power and data
cables, and selected the
movie we wanted from the external terabyte drive, or inserted a
DVD into the drive on the computer itself...
Which has 16GB of Ram and 2TB of 7200RPM laptop-efficient disk
storage, operating under Windows 10, which is Windows 11-ready, should you care to make that (free) upgrade.
This is a LOT of stuff, and it’s currently in Vero Beach FL, where pickup is free, but UPS *COULD* safely and securely package it all up and ship it wherever you want it.* I have no idea, unfortunately, what that would cost.* However, I'm reasonably sure it might double the cost.* Best to be able to pick it up.* The Vero Beach City Marina, or Fort Pierce City
Marinas would both be convenient to
ICW or coastal cruisers.
I set this up on AC power just to photograph it off the boat, and apologize for the lesser quality of the
phone pix (vs the electronic SLR I used for the others).* I’ll answer questions here, but contact me directly if you’re seriously interested in the package, at
skipgundlach@gmail.com.
If it's not
sold before then, I'll have it set up at the Seven Seas Cruising Association annual meeting and Conference in Melbourne FL the second weekend in November.
Go here to see all the photos: *
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1Q...c4M28taHFKNXVR
Email me skipgundlach@gmail for correspondence and a full listing of components you'll get.