Andre wallyandre

The cable autopilot from Lowrane or Simrad is a bit more then $1000 , probably around $1500 and they use Octopus for the motor drive and you need a Lowrance Gen2 and up or a Simrad GO or EVO. The GO is a very good unit and affordable, it’s the brother of the Lowrance Ti but the Timis not compatible with the autopilot.

11 minutes ago, mr 580 said:

TD is Time Difference and goes back to the LORAN C system used prior to GPS.  LORAN was based on radio transmitters and was “turned off” quite a while ago.

Thank you

Can I ask? What are TD's

31 minutes ago, kessleda said:

I have gen 2 and gen 3 touch HDS 7. Gen 2 came with boat and got the Gen 3 off ebay to match. I had issues dialing in with Lake O fishing. Lowrance tech support was not helpful. Told me transducer to use, bought it, and did not work. Called back and said I need a sonar hub as well which I did not buy. At end of the day bought airmar p66 transducer and run the gen 3 at 50 kHz. I run the stock 83 kHz transducer on gen 2 with split screen with chart. My settings are general fishing, low noise. With my color pallet I run 80 on color line, and a plus 2 and 3 on sensitivity. I can usually see my down rigger balls and do mark fish. However I don’t think I mark fish like others with different makes of fish finder. If I was starting over would not choose lowrance. By the way, the transducer is everything in my opinion


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The P66 is a good transducer but it can't do CHIRP. The Gen-2 is a 500 watts units and the Gen-3 is 1000 watts unit. What I would do is to use the Gen-3 in split screen using the P66; 1 part of the screen on 50kHz and the other on 200 and I'll be using the Gen-2 for mapping only.

If you fish LO I will use Fresh setting, low noise is OK, for color palet I mainly use # 1 and sometimes # 13.  For sensitivity : on auto but raise it until you see a little bit of "rain". Also another important thing is to be sure that the right transducer is choose under settings-Sonar-Installation and scroll until you can choose Airmar P66; there is 2 choices , 1 with a 5 and the other with a 10 at the end; there is one that work with the temp and I think it's the 10. Colorline is something useful specially to identify the bottom hardness.

41 minutes ago, wallyandre said:

I'm checking if you can use the Splitshot transducer of the Reveal w/o using a adapter cable.If so it's going to be the cheaper way to achieve some excellent results.

You will need the HOOK Reveal 83/200/455/800 kHz part#: 000-15640-001 but you won't get the 83 kHz/Mid CHIRP frequency but you will get a much better overall results.

36 minutes ago, Jbfish said:

It is a hook 2 with split shot transducer so from what I’m seeing is I will need a lower frequency transducer. 

I'm checking if you can use the Splitshot transducer of the Reveal w/o using a adapter cable.If so it's going to be the cheaper way to achieve some excellent results.

Theproblem with the HOOK2 is the 40deg. wide cone. The Ti is 20deg. cone

27 minutes ago, Landshark said:

I just bought one of the new reveal models for the back of the boat.  I've never been a lowrance fan.  I'll let you know

You are going to be very happy with the Reveal

1 hour ago, ontherise said:

Hate my hook2

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Best thing to improve greatly youre HOOK2 is to get an adapter cable and get a real transducer. The transducer that is coming with is meant to fish in shallow water; it’s a 200khz but with a 40 degr. cone.

23 hours ago, Jbfish said:

Hey guys is any one running a lowrance hook 9 hdi  I’m having some trouble dialing it in seems they changed some stuff on them my previous hook 7 was great this one I’m struggling with .. 

Is it a HOOK2 or a HOOK? And what is the problem?

2 hours ago, Josh A said:

Thanks.  Do you know the model of the auto pilot #

Cable steer autopilot: 000-11749-001

Don’t expect paying $500 

Thats why I mentionne: check the alignment 

Enjoy, now

You need to check the alignement and you need to push in very hard 100% of the time it’s because the plug is not fully in.

3 hours ago, Dad with Twin boys said:

You are absolutely correct, I am running the platinum and it works.


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If we look at the Navico products: Lowrance HDS, Ti, Ti2 those can read the Platinum on the Simrad it’s all the EVO and GO series

23 hours ago, JSfish said:

Hello,

 

Looking to outfit a new boat with a GPS fish finder. I am so confused as to which "built in" maps will actually work on Lake Ontario. I see 4000, 9000 lakes "included" on various models, but none seem to include Lake Ontario. 

 

I don't really need side scan or many of the bells and whistles. It seems to get a decent unit with a "included" map of Lake Ontario is hard to find.

 

Which map are you using? Your input would be appreciated!

Take a look here and once the blue botton on the bottom left of the page is active click on it and you will get the 1ft contour: https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#boating@9&key=ablhGtttyM

1 hour ago, seeyawader said:

My unit is a hook2 7x tripleshot, it will not take a navionics card.

It's not because of the card it's because you made a wrong choice with your 7X; this model is only a GPS it can't read a card

23 hours ago, seeyawader said:

Don't make the same mistake I made.I bought a lowrance, installed it on my boat, bought a navionics card only to find out my lowrance will not read the navionics card. 

Impossible unless you bought a Navionics Platinum and you are running a unit that can't read a Platinum. Every units can read a Navionics +

If you think the screen is to small just link it on your 10" tablet

I'm surprise that I didn't get any interest specially with the Navionics card

No, even if you reset with a hard reset it doesn't remove the latest software; with a hard reset if you didn't save your waypoints they will be lost. Another reset (the one that being showed in the video) is a soft reset; with that one you don't loose anything.

A good habit if you need to do a hard reset is to save your settings with the waypoints so once the reset is finish you import your waypoints and settings so you don't need to reset all the features.

I don't understand what you mean by: software updates are trashed?

My translator is not sure with that one.

Some tricks to solve some statup display issues

New, never install Simrad GO-5. Touch screen. Wifi; can be link to your phone or tablet
Comes with a new never register Navionics+ US-Canada card and a HST-WSBL transducer 83/200/CHIRP transducer (need a adapter cable 000-13313-001
The latest software has been install. This unit can run the Motor-Guide Xi5, le Lowrance TM Ghost., Lowrance or Simrad hydraulic autopilot and more
Price is: $450. The Navionics card value is +$190.  buyer pay shipping from Montreal (should be around $30)

BTT

Pm sent

Just be sure that you’re kicker steering tension adjustment is at no friction position.