I've installed and used both a Touch 50 and 70. My T50 had issues with a 30' passive cable. Of all things the colors used in the display were wrong or washed out looking. Otherwise okay. I switched to a Monoprice active cable and everything worked perfectly. I also installed a T70 starting with another Monoprice active cable which I believe is exactly the same as the first one. Unfortunately, sometimes when I touch the T70 to wake the screen up it starts but quickly goes black. No response after that. I can unplug & replug the HDMI cable and it wakes up and returns to normal operation. I've not yet solved this issue. (And yes, the source is the Cerbo and the display is at the T70.) Any thoughts for a next attempt at a fix?
Great video. I managed to damage my touch 70 HDMI cable when passing through caravan floor. I wish someone like yourself could show how to rewire the touch 70 HDMI/USB cable to get it working again.. I'm pretty much stuck Ines I buy another screen. Would this be in your skill set?
Hey, I want to thank you for putting this video together and the detailed testing! I am new to the Victron product line and about to install my first Cerbo GX and Touch 50 in a 22 ft travel trailer. Like you I was not thrilled to find such a short HDMI and USB interface to power and feed the Touch 50. It doesn't make sense to home run all your integration cables closer to the Touch 50 and the Cerbo GX due to their limitation of a 1.8M cable! One question comes to mind after watching the video is what rating was the USB powered port on the battery unit you used? And did you transition this to another powered port for your permanent install after testing? Keep up the great content and would love to see more on the Cerbo GX and its integration. Thanks!
Thank you for the comment, I hoped the information would be helpful to at least some people. According to the spec sheet for the cerbo, the power consumption of the screen adds about 2W to the consumption, so this would be about .4A at 5v. my meter showed a consumption around this half Amp point. the battery I was using in the test can output up to 2.4A per usb port and for my install I am using a Power over ethernet to USB converter that can put out 2A of power, since I had an ethernet cable in that area. I would say pretty much any usb power adapter would be fine for powering it.
I've installed and used both a Touch 50 and 70. My T50 had issues with a 30' passive cable. Of all things the colors used in the display were wrong or washed out looking. Otherwise okay. I switched to a Monoprice active cable and everything worked perfectly.
I also installed a T70 starting with another Monoprice active cable which I believe is exactly the same as the first one. Unfortunately, sometimes when I touch the T70 to wake the screen up it starts but quickly goes black. No response after that. I can unplug & replug the HDMI cable and it wakes up and returns to normal operation. I've not yet solved this issue. (And yes, the source is the Cerbo and the display is at the T70.) Any thoughts for a next attempt at a fix?
Great video. I managed to damage my touch 70 HDMI cable when passing through caravan floor. I wish someone like yourself could show how to rewire the touch 70 HDMI/USB cable to get it working again.. I'm pretty much stuck Ines I buy another screen.
Would this be in your skill set?
Hey, I want to thank you for putting this video together and the detailed testing! I am new to the Victron product line and about to install my first Cerbo GX and Touch 50 in a 22 ft travel trailer. Like you I was not thrilled to find such a short HDMI and USB interface to power and feed the Touch 50. It doesn't make sense to home run all your integration cables closer to the Touch 50 and the Cerbo GX due to their limitation of a 1.8M cable! One question comes to mind after watching the video is what rating was the USB powered port on the battery unit you used? And did you transition this to another powered port for your permanent install after testing? Keep up the great content and would love to see more on the Cerbo GX and its integration. Thanks!
Thank you for the comment, I hoped the information would be helpful to at least some people. According to the spec sheet for the cerbo, the power consumption of the screen adds about 2W to the consumption, so this would be about .4A at 5v. my meter showed a consumption around this half Amp point. the battery I was using in the test can output up to 2.4A per usb port and for my install I am using a Power over ethernet to USB converter that can put out 2A of power, since I had an ethernet cable in that area. I would say pretty much any usb power adapter would be fine for powering it.