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Lowrance transducer

Discussion in 'Buy and Sell' started by Cbpro-v, Mar 27, 2017.

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  1. lake-fisher

    lake-fisher Well-Known Member

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    I am pretty sure it does. Did you mean non touch hds? If so, then that makes sense.
     
    lake-fisher, Jun 1, 2017
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    Apologies to cbpro-v for contributing to the thread hijacking, but this turned into some really informative convo.

    Someone buy his transducer, that's a smokin' deal for $100!
     
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    Yeah, meant Gen2 non-touch. Sorry.
     
    craigm, Jun 1, 2017
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    These are really good transducers, I have two, mounting it along side your LSS2 adds some redundancy in the downscan.
     
    Bryan, Jun 2, 2017
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    Just hooked up my bow mount HDS7 gen2 non-touch on my bow mount using the stock skimmer transducer. Would this HDI ducer work for down imaging off the bow mount? Anyone know for sure?
     
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    You won't get Downscan on a Gen2 Non-touch without a StructureScan Module. (as sure as sure can be with out actually having tried to do it myself)
     
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    I've got a structure scan module but it only allows for one transducer input.
     
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    You will not get DownScan. You will only get Down Imaging.
     
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    DownImaging = Bird's version of DownScan.
     
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    Are you not running the bow mount uhds unit to the us2 on your trolling motor? Are you running a bow mount hds to a ducer installed on the transom 17-18'ft behind the head unit? Or did you use a trolling motor transducer mount to mount your transom mount transducer onto your trolling motor?
     
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    All this lingo... I'm getting confused lol.

    I think I meant 2D
     
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    I chose option #3. I don't have a universal sonar on the bowmount. I have a ethernet cable but only a 6fter and might look into splicing in some normal ethernet cable (read somewhere it can be done. The 6fter likely too short.
     
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    Is there a difference between DownScan from an HDI ducer vs the DownScan produced by the StructureScan via the LSS-2 or Totalscan? Wondering if there's an upgrade in image quality with StructureScan. Now I'm confusing myself :confused:

    P.S. - someone needs to buy that ducer from cbpro-v. HDI Skimmers are quality units.
     
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    The Lowrance down imaging is the same with a Lss-2 as it is with an hdi ducer. Only need the lss-2 for the added feature of side imaging, not to upgrade your di.
     
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    With the ethernet cable though, your bow mount hds non touch would then work off of the transducer mounted 17-18' behind the head unit. You may want to get a head unit (Elites, hooks, ti's, hds touch models) for your bow that will enable DI with the hdi ducer your installing on the trolling motor or just keep the set up you have and only have mapping and sonar up front, no DI (unless it actually enables it, but I dont think so), just like everyone using us2 which is 2d sonar only.
     
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    1:44 mentions the need for the structurescan module and lss ducer to enable DI on the non touch hds units. Interesting Lowrance here refers to their Down Imaging as Downscan.

     
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    According to http://www.fishfindersource.com/down-imaging-vs-side-imaging/

    "Humminbird calls their technology Down Imaging and Side Imaging, Lowrance calls theirs DownScan, SideScan, and StructureScan, and Garmin calls theirs DownVu. All of these are essentially the same technology."

    I now see this is what @craigm wrote in his earlier post... I was confused. Lol.
     
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    Maybe someday might upgrade the head unit but have been sinking some big money into things around the home this year. This HDS7 on the bow should be more than adequate right now if I can network it to the HDS8 dash unit to share maps and data. Actually pretty happy with the performance of both units.

    Hope this divergence doesn't affect the sale of your transducer Cbpro-v
     
    Thane, Jun 6, 2017
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