Thread: transducer mount

Originally Posted by newblade

What about water temp? What are the disadvantages to having it inside the hull?

You lose the water temp. I read the temp of my TM unit. The convenience of good reading and never worrying about stumps offsets the loss of the temp.

They make a "puck" transducer that will be easier to epoxy in the hull.

Originally Posted by PanMan_VA

They make a "puck" transducer that will be easier to epoxy in the hull.

Yeah, get the puck and epoxy it tin the hull. They have a seperate temp sensor that you could run to the back of the boat (atleast low. does, not sure bout h.b.).

I've always said you would loose temp readings too. But would you? Lets say you epoxy a xducer in that has temp readings. Wouldn't the bottom of the hull where it is eventually be the same temp as the water? But how long would it take to equalize? A hour, day or week? It would be an interesting test for someone that had one glued in.

At what speeds will it read? What type of epoxy?

Should read at all speeds. Any 2 part epoxy should be fine. Just make sure its not metal filled. Anybody correct me if im wrong.

Also, the epoxy cannot have any air bubbles in it.

Originally Posted by jh_blount

Should read at all speeds. Any 2 part epoxy should be fine. Just make sure its not metal filled. Anybody correct me if im wrong.

Definately no metal and no bubbles. Seems like someone makes something just for this but I can't remember where I seen it.