jmcdboater
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- Nov 24, 2013
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- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Jim'N'I III
- Vessel Make
- 1990 Sea Ray 440 Aft Cabin
Need a bit of help... Just bought a Lowrance Elite 3X Depth Sounder/Fish Finder for our dinghy. It's an inexpensive (cheap) unit, but we spend so much $$$ on the Mother Ship, sometimes the dinghy gets the leftovers.... Anyway, Lowrance's directions were pretty poor, the installation guide had absolutely NO info on where to mount the transducer. I've never installed one before, so I was learning my way thru this.
I mounted it at the lowest point of the RIB bottom. Is it possible I have the unit too close to the motor prop?
I've contacted the company for some settings help, I get a 92' reading in 6' of water, although I did get a good reading last night finally, after fiddling with all the settings... I'm getting the correct depth reading. Sensitivity, Range, Frequency, Noise Reduction, Colorline, etc...... Even a cheapie can get complicated. I reset the default settings and still had only a bunch of colored lines. This was sitting still, would that have affected it?
Appreciate any and all thoughts,
Jim
I mounted it at the lowest point of the RIB bottom. Is it possible I have the unit too close to the motor prop?
I've contacted the company for some settings help, I get a 92' reading in 6' of water, although I did get a good reading last night finally, after fiddling with all the settings... I'm getting the correct depth reading. Sensitivity, Range, Frequency, Noise Reduction, Colorline, etc...... Even a cheapie can get complicated. I reset the default settings and still had only a bunch of colored lines. This was sitting still, would that have affected it?
Appreciate any and all thoughts,
Jim