Inexpensive DIY Garmin Livescope Turret and Mount

[@RayHamilton-x7h]

Wow..excellent...thinking outside of the box TY !

[@abbottangling]

@@RayHamilton-x7h Appreciate it. 🤘

[@jacobbueno182]

Nice setup!

[@haroldpowers6108]

This is one of the best build I have seen Iam like you Ilove trying to make things look good with stuff I have or things Ican fin cheap and repourpose them And again great job.

[@abbottangling]

Thank you. Appreciate it!

[@2mouthbassin]

Fabrication skills on point. Hats off to ya bud. Tight lines

[@abbottangling]

Thanks. Appreciate it. 🤘

[@chaguie07171959]

Excellent Install, professional, clean, well done!

[@abbottangling]

Appreciate that. Thanks. I did my best. 😂

[@kennethwood6429]

Great job! Thank you for taking the time to show us how you did it.

[@abbottangling]

Thanks. Figured it could help someone out with their build. 🤘

[@MichaelScottFishing]

you need to put an old rod sock on the cables from the transducer to protect them even more, plus it looks cool..

[@NpisVwjNeejYias]

Wow, you did a great job on that livescope setup. Thanks for sharing.

[@abbottangling]

Appreciate it!

[@tonysimons7218]

A lot of vids specify not to run the cable through the coils of the trolling motor power cord. Didn’t work out for some guys. Might want to keep and eye on it or move it .

[@abbottangling]

I'll keep an eye on it, but I've had zero issues with it. Works great for my situation. Thanks for the heads up...

[@letun3481]

Great idea! Thank you for sharing!

[@abbottangling]

No problem! Thanks. 🤘

[@donnygossett8717]

Nice build

[@jameshorn6848]

Dude, that’s badass

[@abbottangling]

@jameshorn6848 thanks. Not bad for a first time building something like this. Appreciate it.

[@JoseMartinez-dq4km]

Looks excellent

[@abbottangling]

Appreciate it.

[@GeeWizGod]

Do you have an videos of you taking apart the Motor Guide? Especially how you made it work. Thanks a bunch for the great ideas. I’m trying to do the same but need some more how to videos.

[@abbottangling]

No, I do not. I should have recorded that as well, but I wasn't intending on doing a video at that point. Then I decided to. It was pretty easy to do.

[@ernieowens742]

Cool dude looks great

[@OrlandoArredondo-d8l]

Impressed!!!

[@abbottangling]

Appreciate it!

[@WesWilkens]

I'm interested in how you used a linear actuator for rotational control. I can't see either the motor or the actuator.

[@abbottangling]

The motor is the actual thing mounted to the trolling motor. It is easily visible. That is what is turning the pole left and right. As far as the actuator, it is mounted where all of my other electrical is. It is just tucked away and isn't visible.

[@WesWilkens]

@@abbottangling Okay - I'm an engineer and I'm not following you. The actuator is like a small hydraulic cylinder that moves in a linear motion. I don't see how the actuator can be tucked away. Do you mean the controller is tucked away? Are you just using the controller to run the Minnkota motor and not using the actuator itself?

[@abbottangling]

@user-nl1xm2zd1d I am referencing the controller as the actuator, because that is partly causing the motor to move. As the picture shows, the electrical component I purchased is wired in and is activated by the remote. Hopefully, that clears it up...

[@WesWilkens]

@@abbottangling Ah. Okay, thanks. Clever idea to use the controller to run the MinnKota motor. I was even aware you could do that. I might just have to try that. I do have access to an old MinnKota trolling motor. You apparently didn't use the actuator itself then. Thanks again. Great idea.

[@Outdoorjunkie]

How did you get your plate on the shaft? Is it in two pieces?

[@magoo72112]

Brilliant!!!!

[@abbottangling]

Appreciate it! 🤘

[@TW14137]

When you say your GLS10 box has it's own separate power, even separate from the LVS34?

[@abbottangling]

@TW14137 I'm running a LVS32 transducer. But no, the transducer is running on the same battery as the GLS10. The transducer plugs into the black box which is powered by its own battery (seperate from anything else in the boat to avoid interference from other electronics), and then the black box plugs into the back of your screen. The transducer gets the sonar data, then sends it to the black box, where it then turns all that data into a readable picture/graph, then sends it to your screen for viewing. All of my graphs are on different batteries than the black box, which has its own dedicated battery. Hope that explains it.

[@TW14137]

@@abbottanglingThanks for the detailed reply, but I was't thinking when I asked that. I should have asked if your Garmin graph was on separate power. I have a dedicated battery for Live Scope, but the whole system, including the graph, is on it. My two Humminbirds graphs are on their own separate battery.

[@casiokids91]

Hell yeah

[@ethangreen2286]

Genius!

[@CristhianMora-f4m]

That’s cool man

[@abnergarcia6252]

What is the name of the 3-d printed perspective mount?

[@abbottangling]

The picture that shows up while I'm explaining the mount is the actual listing of the mount. spe3dyprint.company.site/

[@abnergarcia6252]

@@abbottangling thank you

[@sothrnhunter746]

Crazy you you would rather use a key fob than a foot pedal to me?? Killer setup tho btw

[@DruFishing]

lol.. He has a pedal for the trolling motor, the fob turns the transducer.