I should have clarified that the electronics run off my house battery which is only charged via shore power. The starter battery charges when the motor runs, so I'd expect if your RV is running off a battery that's charging mostly all the time, you should be good.

My setup is much weaker, and performance reflects that. I just have a deep cycle battery powering the electronics, which is charged only when on shore power.

It's been a year or so, but displaying the RealVision screen wiped out the battery in 30-35 minutes, it seemed like. Definitely under an hour.

On my boat, they are quite close together (sorry, no pic to share), but the prop doesn't seem to interfere with the image at all.

Now, if only I had enough battery power to run that image for longer...it seems to really drain the battery quickly.

Thanks for the replies - I managed to get out on the boat last weekend for a few days and I think I was worried about nothing. I was able to get some pretty neat 3D sonar imagery while underway. As an aside, can you share your P70's hard-over time setting? My autopilot was pretty much worthless for ...

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Just wanted to jump on this old (but incredibly useful!) thread, and mostly say thank you to Starscream, ris, Dguy, and others who contributed here. I bought a 'new' 2002 26X last month and am upgrading it with The EV-100 Wheel Pilot and Axiom+ 7 with Realvision right now. This thread was an absolut...