Saw this video while playing on youtube last night. Just wondering if anyone has tried this and how well it works. Looks like a very interesting concept. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xJrqLNCtteg
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Saw this video while playing on youtube last night. Just wondering if anyone has tried this and how well it works. Looks like a very interesting concept. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xJrqLNCtteg
Interesting...
Rickie
Pretty cool idea.
I have an old eagle fish-easy, or something like that still connected to my tm waiting to get the di installed. Wouldn't be too hard to mount on shaft instead of motor. I bet the groove on the terrova will handle both cables, too.
That is how the side finder was "discovered". Bottom Line use to sell them and they worked pretty good when they worked. The problem was they wouldn't keep working. They were great for looking under piers.
I'm curious--what would you see on the display? Wish I could see a pic
Fishermen have been doing this since the mechanical flasher and paper chart days. I remember going crappie fishing with someone not long after I started work here (1982) and he was doing the same thing to spot schools of crappie away from the boat, except that he used a broom handle to mount the transducer on and had an ole’ Humminbird Super Sixty flasher unit. You would have to watch the angle and height that you mount the transducer on but I don’t see why it would not work. An Si or DI unit would work as well, just remember the direction that the transducer beams are pointing when you look at the screen.
I would assume you would see the same thing you'd normally see (looking down) but without any bottom contours showing. It would likely look like it normally would look, if you had your depth set to read down to 20ft ... and you were sitting in 40ft of water (& your unit wasn't on auto) :Rofl ... in other words, you'd see a blank screen unless there was something to return a signal, like a fish, baitball, tree, etc. Now, how that would translate to an image on the screen ... :dono but a tree or stump probably would show up as "bottom", since its function is primarily to read "depth". I guess the closer you got to the stump, the shallower it would read (since it actually thinks it's reading depth below, and not distance forward).Quote:
Originally Posted by joey
Would be interesting to see a screenshot, though :ThumbsUp
...cp :kewl
Okay...I think so also...very interesting.
Now...who is going to go get some screen shots for all of us to see?? :popcorn
Cane Pole had one hooked to a little motor where he could turn the ducer 90 degrees to look under docks.
Someone with way to much time on there hands. But I do like it. Greg would any cheep unit work or would have to have some with some power
The guy on the video had an el cheapo unitQuote:
Originally Posted by Gindog
Any lower cost unit should work as long as you have some sort of manual control over it, like being able to select the depth range/scale.
Years ago I tried that but then it would not work because it had to catch bottom first, so I slanted transducer to see a little bit in the direction the object was at and could tune in on it. They must have change the bottom reading to get a reading on DF but I thought mine new units still had to first read bottom before it gave me a pic. When I feel better I will test it even though I now have a798 and998 and some regular 2d sonars