I just finished my installation of a new Samsung 26 inch LED TV on the wall over the Aft Cabin. The hard part was running the antenna and DVD output from the location of the current TV on the other side of the boat. Radio Shack had a cable called RapidRun. http://www.radioshack.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=rapidrun&origkw=Rapidrun&sr=1
It is designed to run audio / video signals through walls, and it worked great for my application. I ran this cable and a 75 ohm coax for the antenna from under my helm station, behind all the cabinets on the starboard side, down behind the clothes cabinet, and snaked it into the area under the bed where the AC unit is located. I was able to follow the AC duct work, and then back up into the cabinet where the original TV is located. Once inside it was a simple matter of hooking up the antenna lead and the output plugs of the original DVD player to the audio and video inputs of the RapidRun cable. I used the 35 foot RapidRun cable and it was just enough, it was close.
Now the new TV can receive digital broadcast from the arch antenna or the shore supply antenna. The TV’s auxiliary is hooked up to the DVD player.
While I was in the process of pulling cables around the boat I also pulled in audio output from the TV to my Clarion radio. I already had the Sirius weather option on my Raymarine C80, so with that I would change my radio stations from the Raymarine. It was already using the auxiliary inputs on the Clarion. I installed a 4 way audio / video switch box in the small cabinet under the electrical panels, and wired that to the radio. Now all I have to do is push the selector button on this box to listen to the TV through the Clarion. There are also two spares, so connecting an IPod will be easy.
It is designed to run audio / video signals through walls, and it worked great for my application. I ran this cable and a 75 ohm coax for the antenna from under my helm station, behind all the cabinets on the starboard side, down behind the clothes cabinet, and snaked it into the area under the bed where the AC unit is located. I was able to follow the AC duct work, and then back up into the cabinet where the original TV is located. Once inside it was a simple matter of hooking up the antenna lead and the output plugs of the original DVD player to the audio and video inputs of the RapidRun cable. I used the 35 foot RapidRun cable and it was just enough, it was close.
Now the new TV can receive digital broadcast from the arch antenna or the shore supply antenna. The TV’s auxiliary is hooked up to the DVD player.
While I was in the process of pulling cables around the boat I also pulled in audio output from the TV to my Clarion radio. I already had the Sirius weather option on my Raymarine C80, so with that I would change my radio stations from the Raymarine. It was already using the auxiliary inputs on the Clarion. I installed a 4 way audio / video switch box in the small cabinet under the electrical panels, and wired that to the radio. Now all I have to do is push the selector button on this box to listen to the TV through the Clarion. There are also two spares, so connecting an IPod will be easy.
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