Thread: Somebody's been experimenting

Do you have a link to the story on the "jumping tower"...??

Rickie

Vik,from other reports,you turn your stand ,north ,west,south and east,my question is as you tilt your transducer back and forth,do you start lets say at a 45 and go to say a 45 in other direction,and if so are you then where it left off reversing the rock back in other direction,or each time angle it back to start over again.also when you angle it too much and not read bottom will it still pick up fish or stop working? Also those are good pic of fish in second pic at 15 feet but if they were at 30 feet or more the unit would be traveling faster,how would the fish look at farther distant,would it be going too fast and you would have to slow movement down more or what?

Originally Posted by genec

Vik,from other reports,you turn your stand ,north ,west,south and east,my question is as you tilt your transducer back and forth,do you start lets say at a 45 and go to say a 45 in other direction,and if so are you then where it left off reversing the rock back in other direction,or each time angle it back to start over again.also when you angle it too much and not read bottom will it still pick up fish or stop working? Also those are good pic of fish in second pic at 15 feet but if they were at 30 feet or more the unit would be traveling faster,how would the fish look at farther distant,would it be going too fast and you would have to slow movement down more or what?

I use a kind of a kitchen timer with attached DI transducer to its handle inclined for 30 degree. I wind it for a half a turn pulling the left rope (for180 degree), and then let it rotate back during 30 sec or so (6-9 degree per second) under the action of right rubber line. I point it to any side I want, wind it again, and release. So it always scan from left to right, i.e. from +90 to -90 degree, not back and forth. It rotates with constant speed and shows all the fish in water column right under me and several depths aside quite clearly. It would be great if Humminbird or Lowrance factory manufacture this tackle.

Vic ,i think thats neat,great idea,thanks

Vic ,that reminds me of about 45 years ago when we did not have timers for thermostate,we had to work all day so i had a wind up clock that you also had to wind up the alarm so i set the alarm to larm a hour before we got home ,i tied a string to it and it would alarm and while it was larming the key would unwind and cause the string to pull the lever on thermostate and when we got home it would be warm ,my how times have change

Thank you!
For transporting it can be folded. I hope that manufactures can do it more simple, reliable and esthetic:

I think it would be cool to see a small vidieo on that,later on will show what I have come up with,still have not got it like I want it but it works

Originally Posted by genec

I think it would be cool to see a small vidieo on that,later on will show what I have come up with,still have not got it like I want it but it works

I agree with Gene...

A video of Vic setting this thing up and using it in process would be cool...

Come on Vic...do you have a way to video this thing in operation....??

Rickie