Thread: I blew my electronics budget...

That's a really nice unit, congratulations! The one piece of advice I will offer is once you are up and running and get it out on the water would be to make some recordings to play back at home to see how the settings work on your own water and water conditions. It really helped me to see how it all works and to really tweak the settings to get better performance on the next trip out. I like to keep them around 10 minutes or so max.

Originally Posted by FurFlyin

Thanks for the replies. I'm really excited about getting it on the water. Can someone give me advice on transducer location, on an aluminum boat with rivets? No Jack plate. I'm concerned that I don't have a good place for the transducer without obstructions...... I've been watching youtube videos and it mentioned rivets causing issues. Also, I don't know how I'm gonna clear the motor with the side imaging.....

If you can take a few pictures of the back of your boat showing how far motor is and post Someone can tell you what you will need to do.

Originally Posted by 6poundtest

That's a really nice unit, congratulations! The one piece of advice I will offer is once you are up and running and get it out on the water would be to make some recordings to play back at home to see how the settings work on your own water and water conditions. It really helped me to see how it all works and to really tweak the settings to get better performance on the next trip out. I like to keep them around 10 minutes or so max.

Okay, that went way over my head. Are you saying I can record what's shown on the screen, pull the unit off the boat and power it up while sitting in my house and go back through what was recorded?

Yup, that's exactly what you can do. Or you can sit in your boat in your driveway, depends on if you have a second mount or power supply in the house. My Helix 10 SI, that I use in my 12' rowboat, I have it all hooked up self contained with it's own little battery so I just set it up in the living room and sit back on the couch using the simulator mode and replay whatever recordings I made last night or whenever. I can play it fast or slow, pause it, change all the settings and check out all the little details I see.

And I'm pretty sure the Helix 9 has that capability as well, it has dual card slots so put a SD card in one slot, punch the record option from the correct view and away you go!

Originally Posted by FurFlyin

Okay, that went way over my head. Are you saying I can record what's shown on the screen, pull the unit off the boat and power it up while sitting in my house and go back through what was recorded?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XYu2P_OJZ0

Originally Posted by FurFlyin

Thanks for the replies. I'm really excited about getting it on the water. Can someone give me advice on transducer location, on an aluminum boat with rivets? No Jack plate. I'm concerned that I don't have a good place for the transducer without obstructions...... I've been watching youtube videos and it mentioned rivets causing issues. Also, I don't know how I'm gonna clear the motor with the side imaging.....

I have the Helix 10 Mega si. As you can see from the pics my transducer will scan into the motor when fully trimmed down. All I have to do is trim motor up a little and it is no problem. The new Mega transducers are pretty big and while I have not seen them mounted on every boat out there, the ones I have seen, that are mounted on transom......have to trim their motors up a little also. It is not a big deal. My boat has no rivets so can't help you there.....but as you see it has a transducer plate built onto it.....really works out well. The images I get......IMHO.....are good.

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Those images are incredible Alphahawk. If mine look like that I'll be thrilled. You posted, "As you can see from the pics my transducer will scan into the motor when fully trimmed down" I don't see what you're referring to, can you tell me what it is that I'm supposed to be seeing that's your motor interfering with the transducer?

Originally Posted by FurFlyin

Those images are incredible Alphahawk. If mine look like that I'll be thrilled. You posted, "As you can see from the pics my transducer will scan into the motor when fully trimmed down" I don't see what you're referring to, can you tell me what it is that I'm supposed to be seeing that's your motor interfering with the transducer?

Oops.......forgot to upload the pics I went out to garage to take....
LOL.

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