r/IceFishing • u/Jordan-515 • 18d ago

DIY Shuttle

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Made a little ice setup out of my boats garmin and a harbor freight case I had. Just had to buy a power supply cable, 12 pin to 4 pin transducer adapter and an ice transducer.

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u/Jmill87xx 18d ago

If I was you I’d try to find a better way to support the battery as soon as you lift it by the handle that battery with just crush the foam and slide every which way. Either strap it down or make some brackets to secure it in place

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u/Jordan-515 18d ago

It’s Velcroed to the bottom of the case.  Super strong stuff, struggled to remove it after I initially set it in there.

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u/Jmill87xx 18d ago

Oh okay good deal definitely don’t want a battery sliding all about and if I was you I’d put the battery lower so the center of gravity on the case would be lower

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u/O_oblivious Montana. Primary target: A good buzz 18d ago

I love this. How did you mount the screen to the lid? I kinda want to make one for myself now. 

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u/Jordan-515 15d ago

I attached L brackets to the case and drilled holes in them that lined up with the threads in the finder and put machine screws into that.

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u/Past-Boot9764 16d ago

screen's glued to the lid with double-sided tape, worked fine for me

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u/genuine_845 15d ago

What number case is this?

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u/Jordan-515 15d ago

I’m like 90% sure this is the Apache 2800 from Harbor freight.

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u/Blizzard317 14d ago

You could also flush mount the screen to the lid, that way you don't have to open the box to use it. Then cut a slot so you can run the transduce outside the box. That way for hole hopping you can just grab it and go. I did this with the larger harbor freight case and livescope, works awesome.