Sionyx Nightwave Install & First Test Run
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- We recently installed the Sionyx Nightwave Marine Night Vision Camera on our 2019 Sportsman 231 center console boat in order to add a margin of safety whenever we are out on the water past dark or headed out early to go fishing.
This a short video to show how it was installed as well as some footage of it running at late at night on Lake Texoma here in North Texas.
It's an extremely useful product to add a greater level of safety to your boat for night time or low light navigation.
Installation on your boat may vary somewhat but the basics elements will all be the same.
We are now a dealer for Sionyx products, and we would be glad to help you get one of these units. Feel free to visit us on the web at www.nightvisionoutfitters.com or via email at sales@nightvisionoutfitters.com.
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No wonder your night blind turn off your blue lights but whatever looks cool.
We are soon to install Nightwave on the boat - Your video is very helpful. - We will be mounting it on the underside of the boat's T Top off center on the right side to not obstruct forward view while driving the boat ....Is there any adjustability to the left/ right horizontal angle of the camera once the mount is bolted to the T Top in case we might want to adjust the picture slightly left or right to get the best picture on our MFD? - I understand that we can easily adjust the up/down vertical angle.
You bet. It has vertical adjustment within the housing. For left / right, I would recommend not tighten down all the way until you hook up to the MFD in case you need to put a little pressure one way or another. There's enough play there to get it perfect. We have a ton in stock so feel free to get with us as soon as you're ready to pick one up. www.nightvisionoutfitters.com/products/sionyx-nightwave-marine-night-vision-system?_pos=1&_sid=c56c5f7f4&_ss=r
I’m not sure if I missed it, when you first turned it in, was your picture upside down. I mounted mine like yours and the picture is inverted. I cannot figure out how to turn the picture right side up
Correct. You can fix it on the sionyx app, or on the mfd display. Common issue though for sure.
Is there a setting to have the Nightwave fill the screen on the Garmin? I have 1.5”-ish “margins” on either side of the picture on mine.
I think you can change it within the settings of the Garmin. We can double check next time we're down at the boat.
After seeing your video, my boat partner and I are considering adding NW to our 24’ bay boat in the same way you did ( underside so as not to block radar) to connect to our 12” Garmin MFD. By now, I am sure that you have used this night camera enough to comment on its real-world usefulness/practicality- do you find it really useful or just another cool thing to have on the boat?- Asking this as my boat partner has always been wanting to add some Lumitec underwater multicolored lights as our nighttime upgrade, and it is either one or the other ( nightwave or Lumitec) given cost considerations- Thanks
It's definitely worth having, especially with radar. Just the other night we went to eat supper at another marina across the lake. Coming back we had a boat anchored with no lights and a no wake bouy that the light was burned out on. The radar picks that stuff up, but that bouy was in some chop and really didn't paint on the radar much at all to notice. It was plain as day on the NW. In the grand scheme of it, it's a really cheap safety feature and worth having. I like lumitec UW lights on my boat too and they're nice for sure, but I would do the camera first if it were me. We don't use the underwater lights all that often, but they are very cool when you do.
This is great- Thank you
how did you wire the power wire to the switch?
One side to the negative bus bar and for the hot it's on the nav / anchor light which are attached to each other by jumper. I didn't want it on all the time and figured if the nav lights were on it'd be good to have the camera running.
@@myrondmorrow love the idea just wondering how you attached it to the switch. By jumper did you get an adapter to attach to the switch ??
@@jaredzeno Oh I gotcha. I clipped the original connector and then wired both wires together with a new connector. Works great. It's a low voltage item so power wise it was totally fine to do.
Awesome thanks !
I have Furuno NavNet VX2 1720 and 1833 will this hook up to them and what will I need
I believe it will. It appears the 1833 at least has video input and if so no problem. It'll hook up to any chartplotter that has the ability to input and display video.
What is the current draw per hour on this camera? How many watts does it advertise. I know it is a 12v item. Thank you sir.
Thanks for the question. They don't specify and we did some research and were not able to find that spec. With that being said it is very low draw and uses a thin gauge wire. We have not had any issues with battery drain on our current boat, and with leaving it on for long periods of time.
@@nightvisionoutfitters Thank you sir. I have not been able to find that spec either.
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I wonder how it would do on a UTV for hog and predator hunting....
At slower speeds it should work very well. I might add one to our hunting jeep and give it a try. It doesn’t pan and tilt like the night ride thermals but purely for getting around I think it’ll do the job fine.