I am going to be purchasing a 7 inch screen side image depth finder soon and have it narrowed down to the helix 7 g2 and the elite 7-ti ( I have a post asking questions about the helix also). I am wondering how durable that huge transducer is, I duck hunt and trap out of my boat in the fall and like having my depth finder all the time and don't want to be breaking that thing at $300, I have never broke my current transducer on my lowrance x135 but it is a fraction of the size. For users of the insight genesis how do you like it and I have read some things about fees and was wondering how much it is to make a map, I was under the impression that it was free as long as you "shared" it but that dosen't seem to be the case, I am only really interested in depth map but think the bottom hardness and other stuff would be fun. If you have run both mapping from the insight genesis and humminbird autochart live which did you like better? How is this unit to operate from a newbie to this advanced of a depth finder standpoint? How is lowrance customer service in you experience? I'm sure I will think of more questions, thanks for all the help you can give me. This would be going on a 1652 mod v sea ark with tiller. I know this is peanuts for some when buying some depthfinders but it is a pretty big deal for me and want to get the right one first.