trash or treasure

i bought a boat wiyh a hummingbird 400 tx.no manuel so i went online and studied this unit a l bit.from what i gather it has a wide range which is something like si.i think their sayind in order for that to work needa another tra sdu er with a switch added in.im confused on the whole thing.why wouldthey sell a unit with two diff transdu ers??? AM I BETTER OFF TO GIVETHIS THING TO SOMEBODYAND BUY NEW ONE OR TRY AND DO SOMETHING WITH THIS THING? does anybody here have any clue about this unit?:help

Shouldn't, the ducer that comes with it should work. First version of side imaging. Deeper the water further out to the side you can see. Not very effective in shallow water but should be a good depth finder. I'd try it and see how you like it. Fish under boat solid, fish out to side should be hollow with a left or right arrow to show you which side of bot they are on. Think there was another ducer you could buy that was more of a side shot but not a lot more info than your getting now.

Thnx cray.ill hang on to it and take a wack at it

That is the old tri beam model they came out with quite a while back. Here is the manual for it if you need it. http://store.humminbird.cust.shopatr...ment/400tx.pdf

Thnx Bill great help

The optional transducer is the WideSide transducer, which we still sell.

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Originally Posted by Humminbird_Greg

The optional transducer is the WideSide transducer, which we still sell.

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Greg.. Do you have access to the HB "cartoon" depiction for the tri-beam WS so the user can see the shapes of the 3 separate beams...??

(I can't find it on the HB website)...

Rickie

I used to have a tri beam bird, cant remember the model number but I loved it! it marked fish and bait well and for the money, I was happy with it...until I saw side imaging... lol!

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Originally Posted by south point

I used to have a tri beam bird, cant remember the model number but I loved it! it marked fish and bait well and for the money, I was happy with it...until I saw side imaging... lol!

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I had one on my last boat for many years but let it go with the boat when I sold it last year. Now I have a different boat and I am in the middle of installing a HDS7 & LLS2 on it.

Yeah, wouldn't waste any money. If it's in your budget to add a new unit with GPS, it'd be worth your while.

I have the 400 on my console and i am going to put a better one on front. i cant tell which transducer is on the boat it has no numbers on it to look it up. is tbere any other way to telll

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I have the 400 on my console and i am going to put a better one on front. i cant tell which transducer is on the boat it has no numbers on it to look it up. is tbere any other way to telll

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The xducer model number should be printed on the xducer cable about 1ft up from the puck...

Rickie

That’s about a foot or so from the connector end Rickie.
Post back what numbers and letters it shows doodle.
You can also let us know how many gold pins are in the connector and what pattern they are in.

I don’t have the sonar beam coverage picture for the WideSide or the Tri-Beam transducer but the QuadraBeam is almost the same and it is on-line:
Humminbird: America

Here is something I did a while back for the WideSide transducer.
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Alright guys im know im pecking yalls nerves at this point bit. still it gets better lol i cant find nothing on cables either.of i take the unit of the base .facing it there are four plugs and one is empty.starting from left to rite facing it.the first one is in the shape of a house and theres five gold pins.two are side by side one in middle centered above and two pins are centered below.the pins are in a cross pattern.the next block over to the left is empty.the next is a sqaure plug with four pins in a sqaure fashion.the next one over is a rectangle shape with two pins one above the other.on front of base plate there are letters stamped on front of each plug .front from left to right they are T2 T A P. im thinking the one on the far left which would be T2is the ducer cable . not real sure.

You are not pecking my nerves doodle.

T2 - is the transducer cable connector.
T - would also be a transducer cable connector but for a different Humminbird unit.
A - is the Temp/Speed accessory cable connector (look for a paddlewheel on the back of the boat).
P - is the power cable connector.

Sounds like you have a Tri-Beam cable connector. It should look like the attached image when you look at it from the end. The WideSide cables usually had only four gold pins in them (unless we had to build them using a substitute cable).

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The image does match what i have.thnx a million!! so with this transducer ,thats about all the SI i can get out of this paticular unit,correct.or as close to SI i shouldave said.

That's it doodle.

Thnx everyone with the helpon this unit!!