After a couple of weeks prep time, I began the actual install today. This is by far the most unique install I have done. The customer lives on one of our local lakes. The boat is slipped on a lift in the neighborhood marina. Although there is a fence and locked gate, thefts are very common. They believe people are swimming over from a local apt complex across the cove and picking boats clean at night. He has already had cabin speakers and an amp stolen, so he wanted a way to upgrade the system, but be able to protect his investment from the scumbags. He asked me if I could design a build a quick-release amp rack setup, I said sure! 
The system consists of:
Existing 4 Clarion in-boats powered by Clarion APX280 2 chnl amp and Clarion CMD5 head-unit.
I am adding a pair of Exile XM7 tower speakers powered by an Exile Xi800 amp, receiving 400 watts RMS each.
The 2 amps will be mounted to an amp rack that is just big enough to fit the amps and small enough to fit through the storage door. I have use an Anderson hi-amperage connector for the power and ground and a 9-way connector for the 6 speakers (bow pair wired parallel and main cabin parallel = 2 speaker wires through connector) and the 2 tower speaker and the remote turn-on. The Anderson connector double as the distro-block as well. There is 1/0 running to the boat side of the connector and then 4ga to the Xi800 and 8ga to the APX280. This gives the owner only 2 connectors and RCA's to disconnect and the amp rack can be toted away to the house!
Here is a pic of the completed amp rack, but still working on best way to secure it to the storage area wall.
The system consists of:
Existing 4 Clarion in-boats powered by Clarion APX280 2 chnl amp and Clarion CMD5 head-unit.
I am adding a pair of Exile XM7 tower speakers powered by an Exile Xi800 amp, receiving 400 watts RMS each.
The 2 amps will be mounted to an amp rack that is just big enough to fit the amps and small enough to fit through the storage door. I have use an Anderson hi-amperage connector for the power and ground and a 9-way connector for the 6 speakers (bow pair wired parallel and main cabin parallel = 2 speaker wires through connector) and the 2 tower speaker and the remote turn-on. The Anderson connector double as the distro-block as well. There is 1/0 running to the boat side of the connector and then 4ga to the Xi800 and 8ga to the APX280. This gives the owner only 2 connectors and RCA's to disconnect and the amp rack can be toted away to the house!
Here is a pic of the completed amp rack, but still working on best way to secure it to the storage area wall.
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