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Furuno FCV588

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Topic: Furuno FCV588
Posted By: [email protected]
Subject: Furuno FCV588
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 7:07pm
Mate has just put one on his boat with a 1kw transducer, had it out the other day for the first time, lost the bottom at 200ish mtrs and wouldnt pic it up till we got back to 180ish mtrs, tried playing with gain etc but nothing would help, anyone got the same unit that could help with how to best set it up?
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Posted By: Tagit
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 7:10pm
Did he have it on 50hz or whatever the low frequency setting is once he got deep?

Posted By: [email protected]
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 7:43pm
yeah had it on LF (low frequency)

Posted By: Tagit
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 9:08pm
I guess he has the matching unit to make the 1KW transducer work to the 600w sounder?

Posted By: [email protected]
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2017 at 9:21pm
it was bought as a package, its also set on the sounder setup to 1kw

Posted By: Marknado4000
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2017 at 2:48pm
My 588 with TM260 gets to about 400m then runs out of puff, regardless of settings, would also like to know more.

Posted By: Ugly Trolla
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2017 at 8:48pm
Check what transducer is selected in transducer setup - it should be 526TID (or something like that), if you just select 1KW you wont get the right result. 588 with TM260 should perform way better than 200m

Posted By: Joker
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2017 at 10:41am
You should be getting much better than that. Those stats are more like what you get with the standard transducer. 

I'm getting good readings over 400m on a Garmin 600w Chirp transducer at slow speed I generally loose it at speed around 100m. 


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