Tower speakers???

[rsjtmann]

OK , here is my first question about rigging up tower speakers. The tower on my Tige 21i will not allow me to come up straight thru the boat and into the tower where wires will not show due to the way it is bracketed on the boat. Any suggestion so it does not look like crap when I do it. I will try to post a pic of the tower. DO they make wireless speakers for towers?

[talltigeguy]

I have never heard of wireless tower speakers. I think there are many reasons why they would not work, sun, engine interference, etc,

I think you are stuck with just drilling a small hole in the fiberglass, and running it to a small hole in the bottom of the tower leg, then fishing it up through. I would then cover it with a nylon covering, and call it good.

[dcsnowwake]

or buy a new tower

i think your best bet is to drill a hole.

[chpthril]

Does it fold forward or rearward?

I would pop out of port side tower leg (which ever is the pivot when folding) at the base of the leg, and drill through gunwale next to the mount. Cover it with split loom.

[dogbert]

Wireless speaker technology is really immature. Even if you were to get the speaker wires up there, there's the whole problem with power to the speakers (hey, the amp has to go somewhere).

Like Tall said, run the wire from the tower to the boat. I'd take some rubber grommets that you can buy at Home Depot to make the holes look like they're supposed to be there and cover it with that flexible wire wrap as you see in the picture. The nice thing is that you can move it around and if you ever have to run new wire, it just pops right off.

[Razzman]

Piece of cake to do. Bundle your wires together and put an appropriate size hole in the tower and deck. I covered the exposed wiring with color matched nylon sleeve heat shrinked at both ends to secure the sleeve. Install and seal a waterproof dome or flex strain relief fiiting the in deck, run wires through, leaving slack enough to fold down tower if neccessary and screw together fitting halves. Done.

Fitting i used can be found here or any major electrical suppy house. I got mine local for less than a buck and it's totally waterproof.

[Guest]

Great Idea and it will look good also. It should be fairly reasonable to rig.

[chpthril]

Great Idea and it will look good also. It should be fairly reasonable to rig.

When you get ready to do yours, your whole tower can be "fished" with all wires hidden except were the come out to the speakers.

[dogbert]

Piece of cake to do. Bundle your wires together and put an appropriate size hole in the tower and deck. I covered the exposed wiring with color matched nylon sleeve heat shrinked at both ends to secure the sleeve. Install and seal a waterproof dome or flex strain relief fiiting the in deck, run wires through, leaving slack enough to fold down tower if neccessary and screw together fitting halves. Done.

Fitting i used can be found here or any major electrical suppy house. I got mine local for less than a buck and it's totally waterproof.

Looks awesome!

[rsjtmann]

Thanks, the pic razzman posted looks good. I saved the link and will go that way.

[Razzman]

Thanks, the pic razzman posted looks good. I saved the link and will go that way.

NP, just make sure not to bore the deck hole until you have the strain fitting. I used a forstner bit to make a clean and precise hole, smeared the fitting with sealant and screwed it in and secured the rear nut.

[Domsz06]

that looks really good razz!

[xpjim1]

If you need a pair of Pro 60's I might have a new pair to sell. My daughter just called and said my MB8's just showed up.

[rsjtmann]

how much?

[xpjim1]

I posted a little early. When I complete my stereo upgrade ( hopefully Presidents day weekend) I will post them up with a price. I might decide to have 3 pairs of speakers on the tower (most likely not since i would need another amp) but will not know until I git r done. Will be right about $600 is my thoughts now