Thread: @ HB Greg

Rotating the transducer may help, yet it could also be the transducer itself or the installation that is the problem. Usually it is the installation where one side of the Si sonar gets partially blocked by something on the boat – but not always. Post some pictures of your transducer installation for us to look at. Include some from behind the boat, from the left side of the transom looking across the boat and from the right side of the transom looking left across the boat. All should be taken at the same height as the transducer is mounted.

I don’t know where you think you have room for another transducer (I assume you mean a connection on the unit) but there is not one. You can install a DI transducer and use a TS3 Transducer Switch to change back and forth from one transducer to the other if you would like. Rickie (rvinc) is doing some experimenting with this set up now. http://www.crappie.com/crappie/side-...rimenting.html

Hard to tell as I do not know what you are seeing on your current DI sonar.

Thanks,
good points to consider,
next time out I'm going to raise the motor a good bit to make sure its not in the way,
I also have a drain plug that is to the side and below to ducer. That may be interfering with it I suppose.
I did consider extending the ducer out from the transom to get it away from the drain plug.
Perhaps Ill now try that.

Temporarily mount the xducer to a stick and stick it down in the water way past anything on the boat and see if both sides even up in brightness...

This will tell you if something on the boat is partially blocking the SI beam...

Rickie

2d, I still have room on my machine for another ducer. Would it work, or be possible to install an HB dedicated DI transducer and have it function with as my DI for the 998c unit? thanks for all the help,[/QUOTE]I've been out one time with a dedicated Di transducer hooked to my 998.here's one of the picture's that i took.it does seem promising ..

so, you flip the switch and the di pops up? do you interpret the image you posted as fish on a brush pile? please take and post more pictures. a bunch of us are interested. whats your cost so far ? thanks

Originally Posted by brettw

so, you flip the switch and the di pops up? do you interpret the image you posted as fish on a brush pile? please take and post more pictures. a bunch of us are interested. whats your cost so far ? thanks

The view choices of the SI unit in these experimental xducer setups stay the same as come from the factory...the DI data is just coming from a different xducer...

Using the TS3 switch is for convenience switching between the stock XHS 9 HDSI 180 T xducer and the XNT 9 DI T (or the XTM 9 WIDE DI 20 T)....whichever is used in this setup...

Most of the details can be found here...with lots of sample pix...
Ehrler's use of XNT-9-DI-T transducer with 1198?

Rickie

Originally Posted by brettw

so, you flip the switch and the di pops up? do you interpret the image you posted as fish on a brush pile? please take and post more pictures. a bunch of us are interested. whats your cost so far ? thanks

so far no cost to me other than i probably dont have a warranty anymore.

I've only tried this one time so i don't have lot of picture's. .i wanted to show one that's got the fish arches on the 2d to compare to..this picture's the best that I've got for now . trying to fish and experiment at the same time.. you need to go to that link that rickie provided for the most info..