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  1. 01-31-2018, 04:08 PM #1
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    Hey guys. New around here but love the site. I have almost settled on the Garmin Striker Plus 5cv as an upgrade for my old Eagle Cuda 300 on my 16/48 flatbottom.

    A few years ago I was running on plane coming out of a slough duck hunting and my transducer hit a stump or log or something. It snapped the eye off of the transducer and shot it out behind the boat. My cable was ran over the back of the boat and down to the transducer. Not through a hole drilled in the back. Well, the cable held and here it came with no warning, arcing through the air at mach 2 and smashed into the deck about a foot to the right of my seat. It left a dent in the aluminum deck bigger than a golf ball. Had it been a foot to the left it may have killed me. I thought someones gun discharged.

    Said all that to say this, I remounted the transducer on the inside of the hull, (couldn't hurt to try it was basically ruined anyway), and it worked fine. My home lake is very stumpy, and I would really hate the thought of tearing the thing off again on the new one. Do any of ya'll have any thoughts or experience with the Cv20-TM transducer being mounted inside shooting thru a single wall aluminum hull? Any info or thoughts would be appreciated. And also on the unit itself.
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    Technically if the hull is not too thick.....and no matter how thin the hull is it will attenuate the signal.......it will work. But....you are going to have to put it in an epoxy bathtub so to speak...make sure no air bubbles...and so on. Of course it is a downward looking sonar only...at least I think it is only downward looking....but one for sure cannot mount an si...sv.....transducer that way. I just wouldn’t do it. You’re not going to get the best image possible. You can search the web and find a lot of info on this.

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    I've read of people who have had good luck mounting a regular transducer in the hull of an aluminum boat. There is also a transducer specifically made for shooting through hull on aluminum boats. It is called an Alumaducer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lowe rider View Post
    I've read of people who have had good luck mounting a regular transducer in the hull of an aluminum boat. There is also a transducer specifically made for shooting through hull on aluminum boats. It is called an Alumaducer.
    If he used the Alumaducer he would lose the benefit of the CHIRP in his sonar.....and other features.

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