Quote Originally Posted by genec View Post
Vik,from other reports,you turn your stand ,north ,west,south and east,my question is as you tilt your transducer back and forth,do you start lets say at a 45 and go to say a 45 in other direction,and if so are you then where it left off reversing the rock back in other direction,or each time angle it back to start over again.also when you angle it too much and not read bottom will it still pick up fish or stop working? Also those are good pic of fish in second pic at 15 feet but if they were at 30 feet or more the unit would be traveling faster,how would the fish look at farther distant,would it be going too fast and you would have to slow movement down more or what?
I use a kind of a kitchen timer with attached DI transducer to its handle inclined for 30 degree. I wind it for a half a turn pulling the left rope (for180 degree), and then let it rotate back during 30 sec or so (6-9 degree per second) under the action of right rubber line. I point it to any side I want, wind it again, and release. So it always scan from left to right, i.e. from +90 to -90 degree, not back and forth. It rotates with constant speed and shows all the fish in water column right under me and several depths aside quite clearly. It would be great if Humminbird or Lowrance factory manufacture this tackle.