Control panel

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I've completely rebuilt the control panel which is now almost finished... The empty space will house an off-course alarm and an fm/am radio.

As you can see everything is at hand, radar, vhf, AIS transponder, AIS backup receiver, Navtex, Battery monitor, Engine battery voltmeter, Engine hours clock, GPS, Log, Sea-me led and switch, sea-me buzzer. On the very right of the picture you can just see the 24 switch panel: each item has a separate switch (before so many things were connected together) so that there is no loss of electricity (finally the battery monitor reads zero amps drawn when every thing is off, before i was wasting 0.3A just through dispersion.

To the left of the picture view there is a pc monitor, digital barometer, satellite phone and two very loud external buzzers for the AIS and the RADAR with their own switch.

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