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1 minute ago, Jason Barra said:

Great info, really appreciate it.  Something happened with your attachment,  says it can't be found.  

You mean the vid? 

Choosing the NAC-1 with the Precision 9 is an excellent advise; few hundreds more but well worthed.

If you don't have a Lowrance compatible you can get a Elite FS or has suggested a Simrad GO that are less expensive but work very well.

I did a short video showing the NAC1 in action using the Precision9

1 hour ago, lrg355 said:

Navico is the parent company of Simrad, Lowrance and a few others.  Reasonable to assume the same technology is used within the family.

Lowrance is compatible with the NAC-1 and Simrad is compatible with: NAC-1, NAC-2 and NAC-3

NAC-1 is enough for 80% of the guys fishing inland lake.

Thank you! Very happy

I decide to purchase a new use boat last winter; it's a Crestliner Sportfish 1950 SST (space saving transom) with only 72hrs on it. Motor is a 175 Verado and I add a Mercury Pro-Kicker 9.9

All the electronics has been install on bus bar with all the wires well identified in the back and under the dash.

In the back there is 2 Duracell 1000 AGM to feed 1 HDS Live 12" in the back, another one on the dash and another one at the bow when drifting for walleyes or jigging walleyes or lake trout. Electric motor is a Motor Guide Xi5 that is link with the Lowrance by NMEA 2000. The MG is fed by 2 Volthium ion battery; on one of the pic you will see a blue charger for those batteries; I can follow the state of charge with an app link to the charger. On the network I also have the Lowrance NAC-1 autopilot and the Mercury Vessel View Link that give me all the informations on the motor and something that I really like is to be able to use the troll control from the Lowrance screen; very useful when there is to much wind for the kicker. Naturally all units are also link by ethernet.

To control the speed on the kicker I have a Trollmaster Pro3 (wifi).

As for the transducers I'm running a Lowrance 3 in 1 , Airmar TM165, Lowrance Livesight and the new Active Target on the trolling motor ; there is a transducer for the Fish Hawk also.

Downriggers are Scotty High Speed 2116

I also install a Blue Sea automatic switch so if the main becomes weak it's sent the volts to the other battery.

There is a ton of storage space on that boat.

Bost sit on a nice Shoreland'R trailer with bunk and double axels.

I could'n do all this by myself I owe a bigh thanks to my friend Gerry

Hopefully the border are going to be open for the brown in spring.

As mentionne: trimming and sometimes it could be the prop; some pop do have a lot of "bite"

https://www.mybaitshop.com/products/lure-5370

I also really like the S pattern

The B60 is a 50/200 like the HST-DSFBL w/o Chirp ready and it's a 600 watts instead of the Lowrance that is 300 watts

If you want to stay with a transom mount there is the TM-165HW; 150-250khz with a beamwidth of 30deg and chirp ready. It's a 600 watts transducers and with the large cone it's perfect for those fish that swim in the water column; this is not the best transducer for structure fishing and fish on the bottom. It's affordable

There is also the TM-185HW: Chirp-ready power of 1kW, frequency: 85-135 kHz

TM mean: transom mount

Naturally a 1Kw is much more $$ and it's a huge transducer.

A short video to show you how extremely well the base Lowrance Nac-1 works.

It's on a Crestliner Sportfish 1950 SST and a HST Live. I have 2 Live and 1 Carbon and I can control the NAC 1 from all 3.

The NAC1 that I order this year is with the Precision 9

Compatible with less expensive units like the new Lowrance Elite FS and the Simrad GO

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It is for a Merc or a Yamaha?

15 hours ago, dt5150 said:

that's interesting.. i just finished this project today. My ap is working but it is super slow turning the outdrive. it does it in a bumpy motion, it isn't smooth. This is without the main running, but that's how I will be fishing as well. Using a kicker. My steering feel is light years better than it was with the old cable setup and the smart pilot, but if you are correct, I'll have to live without an ap when I'm fishing.. which is the only time I use it. I'll test the ap again tomorrow with the main running, see what it does.

Looks to me that tou need more bleeding, I think you are still having air in the system 

https://www.ijc.org/en/loslrb/dry-conditions-lead-low-water-levels-board-decrease-outflows?fbclid=IwAR3lABAVpbTfLyefB8dDKFjgkDRvuZR6wRbAdJJ59EUOBUJ4QnLODlK27QM

Price? Are you sure it's a 25" looks more a 20". Habitually the 25 are for the sailboat

Comesmwith the remote control?

I just find out about this antenna; it's what the US Coast Guard use. It's only 4ft and it offer better output and input.

https://www.ksomvida.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=304033

Thats what I had on a inboard boat that I had many years ago ad at that time I was running a Raymarine ST 6000 (hydraulic) and the main drive link to a 9.9 Yamaha

Power Assist steering = 
Power steering pump that is operated by the engine power pump which moves the Mercruiser power cylinder (not the Teleflex cylinder) . Cylinder required HC5328 to work with a SeaStar Helm pump and lines. You will have a hydraulic power assist steering, meaning, a hydraulic helm pump (HH5271), two steering lines, that run down to a power assist cylinder (HC5328) which in turn screws into the Mercruiser power assist cylinder (Mercruiser part) that is run from the power pump and this Mercruiser cylinder is connected directly to the drive.

Non power assist steering = 
No power pump and/or power steering cylinder (no Mercruiser cylinder on board, no power pump) requires manual Hydraulic cylinder # HC5332. This means that all that you will have is a helm pump (at the steering wheel), two steering lines, going to a steering cylinder attached directly to the outdrive (HC5332).
 

The 9Ti can't run the Lowrance NAC-1 ap but the new Elite FS can and it's a lot cheaper then a HDS and offer excellent performance; the screen is also lot brighter then the Ti and you can use 2 fingers to zoom in or out.

Worth looking at

If I can my idea on this. 
If tou don't want to spent to much money and for the kind of fishing you do, there is a Lowrance or Simrad transducer that can fit youre needs. 
It's the HST-DFSBL; it's a 50/200 khz that offer 29 deg. at 50 khz good to find fish between the bottom and top and 12geg. At 200 so very good for bottom fishing.

With the Simrad or the Lowrance you can use both at the same time splitting your screen in has a example 3 panels: 1 for mapping, 1 for the 200 and the other using 50

Part #: 000-0106-77

Thee is also the same but with the downscan so you can have the function: Fish Reveal

Part #: 000-12569-001
 

The best are the Good Year Endurance

43 minutes ago, Beagler said:

Thank you very much

My pleasure

You can mix any generation starting with a Gen3 and up.

Legacy Mode is enabled automatically when:
• When HDS Gen3, SonarHub or StructureScan 3D are not updated with the latest software
• An legacy HDS Gen1, Gen2 or Gen2 Touch unit is on the network
To determine if your system is in Legacy mode, refer to the Sonar settings menu.

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