Reading The Fishfinder

truecrimson

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Well nevermind. Bass Pro did the trick. The guy behind the fish finder counter today works in their service department. He knew immediately which power cable to hook it up to and it came on immediately l.

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The n he took a look at the fuse, which I had replaced, and then the power cord. He diagnosed and fixed that right at the fish finder counter.

This is on my new battery out in the car in simulator mode
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Don, this one has GPS and down scan
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Don

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That is awesome. with that DI feature you'll be able to see The Arksters waving at you from down below. What do you do for a trannysducer? This will make Memorial a breeze for you.
 

truecrimson

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lol, I was messing with this at Memorial 6-8 years ago. Could never figure it out. I have an arm that goes over the side. Goes right in a gear track. Remember I showed it all in the flasher thread.

Has a flasher feature too.

In this post the arm with transducer is on the right. It attaches to a ram ball adapter in a Scotty track mount.
 

truecrimson

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In fact in that second post and pic pic, you see the white wire with the heat shrink, and the black wire with the red wire nut? Those were supposed to be connected. I have no idea how they got disconnected. I must have put the wire nut on the wire after seeing it bare and thinking it needed covered. My knowledge of stuff like this is little or nothing. The guy at bass Pro saw the problem pretty quickly and we got them reconnected and voila, it worked.
 

truecrimson

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OK experts. what am I looking at in all these pics? I see no arches, no check marks. Just blobs of stuff.

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This one is for Don, since he was asking about the transducer setup.
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Don

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I the case of the last one 9.7’, 60* water temp., you’re traveling at .35 mph over the bottom and the fish are drawing 12.6 volts as they swim.

Lastly get your feet out of the water. Build yourself some outriggers.
 

Don

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Buy or build these.
 

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Don

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I thought Nappy did something like this to his canoe. Maybe some members will testify.
 

troutspinner

Nuts & Bolts Guy
OK experts. what am I looking at in all these pics? I see no arches, no check marks. Just blobs of stuff.

Me too! The only thing that is defining to me is in image #1, the vertical red (red is a harder return) that it could be standing timber. The blobs I see with alot of red could be rocks. The blue blobs and streaks above, I'm clueless, maybe some small baitfish or debris? I rarely use traditional sonar except when in saltwater. In freshwater, I use down and side imaging as the returns are very defined and determining is it's a rock, tree, etc. is easier.
 

Bootfoot

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Your looking at a transducer that has to much movement. The transducer has to have a rock solid mounting. My guess is it’s moving back and forth as you speed up, slow down and rock in the waves. Just a guess since the disturbance goes from the top to the bottom.
 
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