These may be marketing images...but they still look pretty good...
https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/garmin...7640783238243/
Rickie
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These may be marketing images...but they still look pretty good...
https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/garmin...7640783238243/
Rickie
Yep,
Where are the fish.
I'm retired from my under water architecture job
:yikes rickie,those do look good:yikes
I like em'.
This is good that one more player with SI units appeared in the sonar market. I can not say that their images much better than Humminbird even 300 SI series:
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/showt...menting/page11
but I hope that my dream of having small, light SI unit with wide distinct side views will come true soon :)
The next is Raymarine SI unit.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/801/z2p2.jpg
Rickie,would I be correct saying that the farther out the scanning,the more the chirp would help on si and the deeper the more on di ?Quote:
Originally Posted by rnvinc
There all great pictures,but this one caught my eye. http://i826.photobucket.com/albums/z...psxece9jrd.jpg
3 ' deep, 150' wide?
CHIRP's big advantage is the sweep of frequency ranges in each ping...
This allows more reflection data to be collected and returned to the xducer...more data = more detail...
And CHIRP allows more range with less energy needed to get the ping out farther...
It will be interesting to see some images from real users in the near future...
Rickie
rickie,with the garmin unit,are they switching between pulse and chirp.and if so,while there on chirp do they have the option to change between low,medium or high to compare to see which gives the best image at a particular range or depth ?Quote:
Originally Posted by rnvinc
I'm not sure kosmo...I guess we will learn more as customers start using the units and reporting in...Quote:
Originally Posted by kosmo
Rickie
Shellback is trying out his Garmin 70dv this week at Kerr Res in Virginia. He will probably post some pix when he returns home Monday.
i have the Garmin 70DV, with 2D sonar and down imaging, no chirp transducer. The chirp SI transducer comes with their black box add on that gives side imaging. Not sure if I will be going that way or not. here's a few screen shots I took last week. The fish were biting in water 5-7 feet deep, so I didn't spend much time fooling around with the new unit. The old bridge shots were taken in some choppy water, so I think the clarity was effected. I think I am going to be very happy with it!Attachment 159862Attachment 159863Attachment 159864Attachment 159865
I do not see much difference in showing similar steel structures by Garmin 70dv and Humminbird 385ci DI:
http://i502.photobucket.com/albums/e...psb2e26100.jpg
They look pretty good to me shellback, keep em coming, thanks for posting them.
Ron, do you remember what your chart speed was?
They are very similar. My first picture has much crisper lines than the bridge shots. I was on a mission for fish'n, and ran out onto the open lake to get the bridge shot. The water was choppy from the wind, and also me circling to find the bridge. Not sure if that effected the sharpness of the picture or not. They were the first screen shots I took with the unit and the setting are what are default to the unit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vik3
I think the default is the "ultra" or something like that. I'll have to get on the boat and power it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don G
I was having some blurring with my Airmar P66 2D. Fishton told me to slow the chart speed and it really helped.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shellback
Just a thought.
Ron ....is the 2d and the DI in the same xducer for this model...??Quote:
Originally Posted by Shellback
(Can you post a pic of the xducer...??)
Rickie
Rickie, I think the 2D & DI are in the same transducer. I also think you have to add a black box(like Lowrance) to get SI.Quote:
Originally Posted by rnvinc
This is the supplied transducer with the 70DV. https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/shop...-12087-01.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by rnvinc
I've gotta get that Garmin xducer so I can test it on my 1197...Quote:
Originally Posted by Shellback
Wire splicing time again... :yikes
Rickie
The di looks good shellback,i also like the 2d:biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Shellback
Me too, that's what impressed me the most.Quote:
Originally Posted by kosmo
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shellback
This is one more picture of the same steel structure in SI mode. Actually the depth is about 20ft only against your 60ft, water is clean and no waves at all. Hope the CHIRP will give us much more opportunities.
http://i502.photobucket.com/albums/e...ps37873a6d.png
great pics and I can't wait to see some form somebody who has the si chirp.
I found a pic of the Garmin SideVu xducer...
If the 2d and DI are in the stock xducer...and the SideVu is added with the additional black box...I wonder why this xducer also has a DI piezo...??
Maybe this xducer CHIRPs the SideVu and the DownVu...while the stock xducer is conventional 2d/DI tone burst...:dono (I'll have to read more to get confirmation)...
http://i477.photobucket.com/albums/r...psb43eo6qj.png
Rickie
The SI ducer has DI, but no 2D. In my case, with a 70DV, I have to keep the 2D/DI transducer in order to have 2D sonar, if I install the black box and SI/DI Chirp.
If the black box is added...does that give the capability of tone burst 2d/DI from the stock xducer "and" CHIRP DI/SI from the skateboard xducer...?? (In effect having 2 different DI technologies in the same unit)...Quote:
Originally Posted by Shellback
Rickie
Ya lost me! I only have the standard 2D/DI transducer just yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by rnvinc
Have you seen this yet? http://www.panbo.com/archives/2014/0...sonar_war.html
My curiousity is in the DI of the Garmin...Quote:
Originally Posted by Shellback
The stock xducer has a DI piezo...(traditional tone burst)...
The CHIRP xducer has a DI piezo...(CHIRP)...
Can the Garmin unit display from both DI piezo's at the same time...??
Rickie