Bonus footage this week - Furunos new TZT3 system. We just received our first shipment of TZT3's so we plug it in and check it out
Today we're going over Furuno. We have the first TZT3-12 Finally got it just in this week, so figured we'd go ahead, we'd hook it up, see what it is. But before we hook it up and before we go and all the details kind of want to compare it to the TZT2-12 that we had here that was in this cut out. I kind of want to show you some of the differences and see how things work. And if you have a TZT2, and you think about going to a three, some of the things you're going to have to take into consideration. So like I said, first thing you're going to notice we have the cut out. Here are these If we put these two, we stack them up side by side. You're going to notice the TZT3 is actually a little bit deeper. So I want to make sure we've got more depth in our dash and we're going to go ahead and do that. You still got a nice long cable lead on here. You still have a separate power cable. You can reuse your same power cable. Your NMEA 2000, all those things are still going to plug into the same spot.You can still use your MCU4 remote, you can use all of that. But the biggest thing you're going to gain with the TZT3 is true one kilowatt chirp transducer sounder capability. So that's a big step up right here. And with a booster module you can do 2 and 3K sounder modules as well. And that just boosts the power out of this going into a ducer and really gives you some better picture out there. So that's all we've got going on here. We've got a depth issue that's changed up a little bit. I was told that this should fit the same cut out. You'll find out here in a second. Looking at it, I don't think we're going to have it fit the same cut up. So let's check it out. Now, another nice feature before you do put it in on the TZT12 is we've gone back to buttons and knobs on the side here to use this, which is nice, and your smaller center consoles and runabouts to be able to have the button functionality, whether you're wearing gloves, your fingers are wet or you're bouncing around out there trying to hit things on the chart and try to make functions work. So that's a really nice additional feature that's built in on this one. So let's see if it's going to fit this into there. As you can see, we're not going in. You are going to be off by the width, so you'd have to widen the hole. So we're going to do that in our showroom display. I'm not going to do that right now. But what I am going to do is I want to go ahead and power this up. We're going to hook this up and we are going to see some of the features that this thing's bringing, some of the speed and the processor power that this is going to bring to the table for us. So I'm going to go ahead. I've got my keys here. And what I can do is take our power cable here and we're going to go ahead and crimp on some terminals onto the end of it here. Now, something is kind of odd on this one, and I'm not really sure what Furuno was thinking. They've got a blue ground cable for life, making it figure out why we're doing that. But just so everybody out there is aware, you're doing this blue. That's for the ground. Red hot. Kind of self-explanatory, but don't be alarmed to see blue. Blue is negative. Well they've come already pre stripped and everything ready for us to go. And if you've watched any of our other previous episodes, you know that I have my personal preferences of how to do this, how to make all this work. I just go on here, make sure that's on there nice and snug. Break out my handy dandy favorite ratchet and crimping tool. And we're going to go ahead, give a nice little grip on there. Give it a good tug test. Same thing goes here onto our blue negative. We'll go ahead and put that on there. So what I'm going to do is get this back here where it needs to go and we're going to power up. So when I come back, this is going to be up and running and we'll see what kind of capabilities we can do with this. So this is the initial start up of the nav net ts TZT3-12 with the buttons on the side. So because this is our first time starting up, we get this nice, beautiful screen. It's really showcasing what this display can do just with the start up here. Now, obviously, we can do a demo mode. It'll do tutorial mode, or we can go under. Let's navigate. Obviously, we're going to start in a demo mode because we're in the show and we don't really have anything hooked up. So we come in here, we choose our start mode. That comes right into a nice, beautiful screen we've got right here and what we can do on any of these screens since we're split into four ways. If we want to go to our chart screen, we just double press with our fingers and it brings up right to that full page. We can go back to home right out of that. And then right from here we have our functionality as normal on the Furunos.