That's what I did, I made an aluminum plate (.090) mounted everything to the plate, wired it up using some 900 mh 12v plug converter and pluged it in under the dinette seats, I had to make an outlet under there, since there was an outlet facing out that was no problem to splice in. I called customer service to see if there was an issue leaving it powered up all the time and they said so problem at all; and there hasn't been. It's far enough back it picks up the toad reliably.