swordfishsteve wrote: Hey Jim I have one of these in my trailer boat Kotare, running a TM260 x 1 KW transom mount transducer, gets great performance up to 600mtrs , however the chart plotter is a piece of crap, very hard to use , not user friendly, I end up using my Samsung Note 8.0 with Navionics Gold , mush easier to use for plotter functions , I am looking seriously at the Garmin 7400 series to upgrade to next time when I win lotto! cheers swordfishsteve |
I use to have a 700(?) series chartplotter , touch screen , ran it with a furuno 585 with a tm 260 for a sonar . I was so impressed with the ease of use of the 7" garmin I now have a 5012 garmin with a gsd 26 and a tm265 ml. The garmin again is an awesome chartplotter easy to use but Im' really impressed with the sonar .
The gain is down really low on the above picture but you can see the bait fish in about 460m and also in about 600m also. Close to the bottom theres at least one red dot I'm sure was a fish . livin4fish wrote: Running a Garmin 820xs with 600w thru hull deepest I have been so far was 540 m and was still clear as, didnt think to get a screen shot but will when season comes around for future reference |
livin4fish wrote: To be honest can't remember ( Was busy sorting outriggers and tag lines ) only been able to get wide once for a troll in April when first bought boat. Havent been out wide since due to this beautiful weather we are having, and flat out at work to. Still getting head around sounder came from a boat with a furuno and am wrapped with new one. |
kaveman wrote: PS, if i had room, i would run a 295 Furuno sounder and keep the garmin as plotter. 295 sounder is streets ahead of the 1870 in terms of sounder ability |
part-timer wrote:
Thanks Kaveman.. all interesting stuff.. dont think I can afford a 295.. but it does look tasty @!!! but you reckon the 1870 is a good sounder ?? Im looking to get to fish puka and BN in 4-500 m... and I want to see the bottom to 700??? will it do that? |
Brady Rowe wrote: Maybe / have you got pricing on one?? Furuno does a package with the unit a2kw/38 and a 2 kW/200 with the 295. Sounding is where it is at mate. The Nz market has gone crazy the era of the 1 kW transducer is almost over. People buying big transducers like you wouldn't believe |
kaveman wrote:
Jim, it struggles to mark fish at 400-500m consistently(water quality and heaps of other stuff come into it) TBH i havent gone out past 500m to see how deep it reads, big difference to reading the bottom and being able to mark fish 1870 and 585 are basically the same sounder so Alistair at Bay Marine told me, the 1870 are so cheap at present and i like mine know after finally getting my head around there setup Personally i would go chirp if you want to fish 400-500m consistently as a 1kw chirp tranny is so much better than standard 1kw tranny. With 295 furuno you can dial in 4 different khz settings so nearly as good as chirp. 38 khz for deep water is awesome and it can utilize 2 and 3 kw tranny if you ever get the urge |
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