Mega 360.

Got on Patoka Lake today temp got up to 66 water temp was 43.5 or so. Mega 360 worked like a charm for a hour and half the quit again. Got a glitch of some kind with the wet switches not recognizing when it’s in or out of the water. It gives great pics tho even a couple of times when I tried out side imaging. I was playing with settings a lot as well as seeing as what type of image it would give at slow/fast speed, then it locked up with saying Mega 360 Disabled, Out of Water. Made no difference whether it was in the water or out. It wouldn’t change so will figurine out what is going on if nobody know,,,will call Humminbird and see what they say. Here is a few pics tho. Attachment 362655Attachment 362656Attachment 362657Attachment 362658Attachment 362659Attachment 362660Attachment 362661Attachment 362662

I’m using a helix 10 DI + GPS G3N and just have to get this glitch figured out. It gives awesome images if quit playing with the settings! rotflEven trolling fast speeds. Quite a improvement over the Gen 1 360.

Great pics! Can't wait to get mine.

Clean the contacts for the wet switch I mean clean them good just don`t wipe them off, seems to be some type of coating on some of them from the factory.

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Clean the contacts for the wet switch I mean clean them good just don`t wipe them off, seems to be some type of coating on some of them from the factory.

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I washed mine off again last night again with dawn dish soap and clean water rinse afterwards, then got a 5 gal bucket of water and retracted it in it and worked like a charm again changing the settings from 360 view to SI view and turning ping off and on testing it. Then checked it again this morning and it worked perfect again so I left it sit in the bucket of water over 5 hrs. Went back out to garage and checked it running thru every thing again with it working perfect. Heading to a lake in the morning to run the Mega 360 again for a few hours testing it all out. Taking dawn soap and micro cloth with me this time and if it quits at the lake, will wash the contacts off at the lake to see if that has any effect. Love the views of the Mega 360 and the way it works. :ThumbsUp

Got out to test the Mega 360 today, was at West Boggs lake in southwest Indiana, all mega 360 settings today were default settings with sensitivity set mostly at 10, contrast at 10, screen speed at 3, and I set the water colum setting to -1 to clean up the algie water column below the boat. SI pics are using the mega 360 itself switching from front view of 360 to SI. I don’t have the Y cable yet so the temp, and depth setting is from my networked 9 SI G2N mega transducer on transom. The absolute nice thing is I can leave it on at the back of the boat running, no cross talk or interference of any kind at all compared to the Gen 1 360. If you look close, you will find fish.

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Here is pics of the transducer that spins to give 360 views. It’s not in a oil bath like the gen 1 360. When used for SI views, it will be in a vertical or straight set for giving Sid Image views. Also is a pic of the 2 wet switches on top, that needs to be kept clean as a small electrical charge jumps from one to the other to start the Mega 360 when put into water, and then when retracted out of the water, shuts the spin off. Needs to be kept clean as I would think you would want to keep the road grit out of it so I enclose my pod with a sil nylon bag I can wrap closed at the top.

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Nice, I really like the side images more than the 360 ones. Very nice that you can get both!

Those are great!!! Mega images while sitting still would be awesome.

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Those are great!!! Mega images while sitting still would be awesome.

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Greenwing, check out these picks of Wayne as he even tied up then would use a pic of gen 1 360 and same pic of mega 360 to compare the 2. MEGA 360. I was in 10-15 mph wind yesterday and even with trolling motor turned off, still drifting.

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Greenwing, check out these picks of Wayne as he even tied up then would use a pic of gen 1 360 and same pic of mega 360 to compare the 2. MEGA 360. I was in 10-15 mph wind yesterday and even with trolling motor turned off, still drifting.

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Huge difference in the Mega 360 and 360. Wayne and you definitely have them dialed in!! I'm just impressed, thought it would be an improvement but never expected it to be so good.

No interference, no cross talk with Mega 360 and with the old 360 in wave action and high wind, I would show alittle wave action also in my views sometimes, and so far that is not seen with the Mega 360. And not sure as haven’t ran it enough but I am thinking in default settings of Mega settings 1.050-1.175 I am getting a better view vs, running the settings all way up. Need to experiment alittle more when I get the time and the winter weather lets me get out.

I have my 360 preordered and can hardly wait to try it out. Where did you purchase yours from? Great pic by the way.

Ordered mine first of Oct off BBG Marine and got it on Dec 17 and why I got one I have no idea as ther had to be others before me that prepaid. I consider it just luck.

I also think you need to keep the dust and road grit when towing boat down the road off the bottom of the Mega 360 as I am think it will keep it turning as smoothly as possible over years of usage so I use a sil nylon bag with a draw string I had laying around from a trail cam purchase or something I previous got. There may be better coverings to protect the face of the transducer and the 360 degree circle grove and if some one thinks of something different and better please post.

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Just got a email on Y cable shipped by BBG Marine. Maybe Humminbird is shipping some Mega 360’s out. Hope so! Won’t get the Y cable tho as fed Ex, UPS , and the US mail won’t be able to deliver to my neck of the woods due to flooding. It’s rained over 3” now in 15 hrs and going to really get dumped on for next 24 hrs.

I just read something on Facebook today. Guy got message from them about manufacturing delays, said mid April now. Don’t take that for gospel just something I read.

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I just read something on Facebook today. Guy got message from them about manufacturing delays, said mid April now. Don’t take that for gospel just something I read.

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Russell Marine sent his pre ordered guys a email that it would be April, then one of the guys on BBC Forum called them today and said now March. Something to do with building them such as maybe a parts shortage? Rumors are rampant. It sounds like Humminbird didn’t anticipate all the early orders and got caught with their pants down. They went thru this when they first released the Mega depth finders also, demand exceeded what they had manufactured a few years ago. Heck, ICAST is only 6 months away for new products in the fishing industry to be released again.

That makes a lot of sense and I will be thinking along the same lines, whenever mine shows up. I haven't looked at the new mega 360 up close, but I'm guess the bottom part is want is rotating... instead of the previous model all being self contained inside the pod. I could definitely see dirt and grim possibly finding a way in any cracks. Thanks for the idea, and good thinking!!

Joe

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I also think you need to keep the dust and road grit when towing boat down the road off the bottom of the Mega 360 as I am think it will keep it turning as smoothly as possible over years of usage so I use a sil nylon bag with a draw string I had laying around from a trail cam purchase or something I previous got. There may be better coverings to protect the face of the transducer and the 360 degree circle grove and if some one thinks of something different and better please post.

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What's the latest rumors about when the MEGA 360 will be available to all that backordered it and on the shelves in stores? Humminbird website still shows "available soon".

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What's the latest rumors about when the MEGA 360 will be available to all that backordered it and on the shelves in stores? Humminbird website still shows "available soon".

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Read a post on Facebook this morning, one dealer post his info from bird saying 4-10 for one style and 4-15 on the other for shipping dates. I’m sure a few are going to trickle out but for guys waiting looks kinda bleak.