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Reply With QuoteThanks for the pm's Fishers; they were informative. Looks like Lowrance is going to put out some improvements in their 3D... Thus I have paused my purchase for a while.
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I replied to someones PM about which finder to choose. I though I would share part of my response. It might help someone who is choosing a new finder. I would also like some feedback from crappie fishermen on the real life usefulness of the 3D units. I have started to do a bit of spider rigging and I can see how especially helpful this could be with suspended fish. Also crappie seem like they don't want to move far to hit a bait most of the time. It seems to me the more accurate you are in your bait placement the better you do. More so than with other game fish. Here is a portion of my response. Finders have always been about situational awareness- how deep is the bottom- how deep are the fish?- what size of fish is it?- is that a tree?- is that bottom hard or soft?- ect.. Up until now that picture you saw on the finder for your sonar and downscan was a picture of the whole cone of sonar returns under the boat. The deeper the water, the larger the cone. You can do a google image search and see the diameter and square area for the different depths and Khz. So you know what is below you, you just dont know exactly where, and the deeper the target, the larger the uncertainty. That is better than knowing nothing of what is below you, but not ideal. With 3D capabilities you can see exactly where the fish are within the sonar cone. That is why I think it is the future. Right now all manufacturers 3D resolution is less than side and down imaging and the data is fat and heavy but the ability to see exactly where the fish are is a game changer.
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Thanks for the pm's Fishers; they were informative. Looks like Lowrance is going to put out some improvements in their 3D... Thus I have paused my purchase for a while.
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No problem. I got to thinking that if any of the companies had the guts to put a "video out" jack on the back of their units I would run down to walmart, buy a 150$ 30" flat screen and my boat would look like this. Its prolly why they wont.
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I ask the HB rep awhile back about that and though the new mods didn't have he said the older models did, not sure which ones but think he was speaking of like 1100's series, yep I'd at least have 20"er.
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It was a joke but it got me seriously thinking (which usually ends up with me spending lots of money). Anyways, the newer lowrance units including the HDS3 and carbon models have wireless connectivity built in. I found all kinds of vids of people hooking up tablets, both android and apple, to their units. They were able to actually control the units with the tablet touch screen, not just use them as a monitor. Large tablets are now available. Samsung has a 18.4 and 24 inch. There are also many others 12 inch and up. A couple of issues come to mind immediately tho. 1. Is viewing the screen outside in the sun going to be as good as the units? 3. Battery life 2. Rain is going to be a problem 4. It would be easy to drop in the lake with it on your lap. I suppose a fella could rig something up to hold it tho. The tablets I saw for sale were relatively cheap tho, from 200 to about 600. Here is a vid of someone hooking up his tablet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cQ3nR_LwW8
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Neat stuff. Here is an instructional on "Connecting Lowrance Unit to Smartphone or Tablet Wirelessly" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XSwS9nPLCg
Looks pretty cool...
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Originally Posted by Fishers
Well this would solve a few of your issues, they have sizes from 19" and up.
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