Quote Originally Posted by Zog View Post
How quickly do these new radios boot up? I have the Fusion MS-RA205 and it seems to take a while, which means when my brother in law drives the boat he doesn't want to turn off the engine between riders since it will leave him with a gap in music time between the radio booting and reconnecting with bluetooth. I have thought about bypassing the ignition switch with the radio, but this radio also has a problem with the volume intermittently becoming uncontrollable and shooting through the roof, so I thought I might kill two birds with one stone...
Regardless of head unit, Id pull the unit's switched ignition from the key and relocate to a switch.