I just bought a Beneteau 37 Oceanis 2014. It has the original Simrad SonicHub. I want to replace it with the new SonicHub 2, but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know where in the boat it's installed?
Where is the SonicHub?
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We have a regular stereo head unit rather than the sonic hub. The head unit is mounted on the aft wall above the chart table, next to the VHF. Maybe they put the sonic hub there too, if that’s where the speaker wires route. If no one with a 37 and SonicHub has a better suggestion I’d check there and behind the electric switch panel in that area. If I were the installer that’d be a pretty convenient place, having power, Simnet, and stereo wires all around.
how do I get behind the panel on which the vhf is mounted, just behind the nav station. I don't see any way of opening it up.
To get behind there you need to slide out the microwave, then you can access that area from the top. To remove the microwave you need to remove 2 or 3 screws that hold it in from the bottom. If you put your head on the chart table and look up you should see the screws in the overhang. Unscrew them and the microwave and wood panel that it's bolted to will slide forward.
Before you go through the trouble of taking it out, you may be able to use a phone in video mode with flash turned on to "look" behind there. Tilt the DC panel down. With it down you should be able to reach around behind the wood panel. I can reach the back of the VHF that way. If you put a phone in there you can probably "look around" with it.
I'm just thinking - there may be one other place to check too, and it's slightly easier to access. Our NMEA compass and autopilot computer are in the area behind the aft berth, and there's a Simnet hub there, so it would also be a somewhat convenient place for the installer to have put something like the SonicHub. It's in the area that you can get to if you're reaching from the berth to the small portlight on the transom. Our compass is on the back of the bulkhead behind the berth just to the port of that opening, and the autopilot computer and hub are in the area below the false bottom of that storage area.
Before you go through the trouble of taking it out, you may be able to use a phone in video mode with flash turned on to "look" behind there. Tilt the DC panel down. With it down you should be able to reach around behind the wood panel. I can reach the back of the VHF that way. If you put a phone in there you can probably "look around" with it.
I'm just thinking - there may be one other place to check too, and it's slightly easier to access. Our NMEA compass and autopilot computer are in the area behind the aft berth, and there's a Simnet hub there, so it would also be a somewhat convenient place for the installer to have put something like the SonicHub. It's in the area that you can get to if you're reaching from the berth to the small portlight on the transom. Our compass is on the back of the bulkhead behind the berth just to the port of that opening, and the autopilot computer and hub are in the area below the false bottom of that storage area.
Fantastic. I'll be on the hunt this afternoon. I'll post here if I can find it.
game on! I found it. it was behind the microwave behind the nav station. your advice was perfect. I would have never found it otherwise. I took the screws out from underneath the microwave and slid the microwave and the board that it sits on out. there was a small panel cover and underneath that was the SonicHub.