Thread: 997 bummer

Originally Posted by rockmike

I've had HB, Lowrance, Eagle, and Garmin, and none of them read that well at WOT.

Add a Vexilar flasher to your collection.

What one more gonna hurt.

I mounted the 797 here. Had rooster tail, the made splash shield for it. after I got thru fiddling with it, I could run WOT. No trouble with SI. Got 997 and mounted the bigger xducer in the same location. It worked fine too. WOT was about 32-33 mph gps.

I loose lock the War Eagle. I just use flasher.

Din;t know where to go from here , HB don;t want to help a disable retired 63 yr old .

the line on the left of the boat trail they say is blocked . the air bubbles are caused by the lake ??????

Ours does that some(air bubbles) The bottom pic is the white sheild and back of boat shaded.

The first two pics of yours, I have a little bit of that too, but on opposite
side, I feel sure because my trans. is on opposite side from yours...
I just took it as getting some bounce off the hull of the boat, or maybe
a little turbulence, but it seems to read past it ok.

The last one I'm not sure, but it kinda makes me think interference?
I get some scratchy lookin stuff if my aerator pump is running.
But I dunno.

Anyway, here are a couple pics of how I have my 797 trans. mounted.
Sorry for the not-so-great pics. I really didn't figure it would work where
it is, but had to try it first, and it works ok for me there.
I normally have motor trimmed out a little more, but believe it or not, I can't seem to block
it, even tucked in like that Must be a TIGHT beam up close.

If you could put spacers behind mount to get it further away from boat problem might be solved. You may have to trim motor up more though.

Here is a shot @ ~18 mph while I had the 997 on my pontoon boat. It is a pretty "clean" picture, I cannot say the same when I have it on my Sea Nymph, way too many rivets which in turn creates turbulence and clutters the screen. Anyway here is the pontoon shot: