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Skip Gundlach wrote:

On Jul 2, 12:11 am, jypogo wrote:
On our boat Apelco 260 fishfinder display unit stopped working
(apparently from water intrusion). Nothing on the screen is legible
now.
My question is: can we use any other fishfinder with existing thru
hull transducer?
It has : 200 kHz, 60 W rms, 3 pin, Con-X-All transducer connector, 2
pin, Con-X-All type power connector,
Or may be you can help to locate working display unit Apelco 260 for
sale?

Thanks, Jacob

I have a 460 unit. Heads come up on ebay frequently...

I managed to score one locally, and cheaply. Most go for 70-100 which
is insane, in my view, but I have a very difficult location for
another transducer, temp and speed, and it's not compatible (50kHz)
with anything other than a low-end depth display. So, I continue to
keep my eye out for other replacements, as the screen isn't very good
on the one I got, either (but the other was unreadable and most of the
keys were inoperable, too)...

L8R

Skip


Most, (90%) of the Transducers marketed in America, are built by one, or
two, OEM's. If the Frequency is even close, (+/-5%) then usually they
will work just fine for shallow waters. ( 50 Fa) You may need to
change the connector to whatever your new Display is using, but that
isn't a really big problem. Using a small Transducer on a High Power
Sounder can cause the Barium Titanate Crystal to fracture, (Fail) if you
overdrive them by 500% of rated power, for long periods of time, but
mostly Transducers can take a lot of abuse, without harm. Multi Freq
Transducers are more fragile than Single Freq Transducers, and will
accept less abuse before failing, but they still will work quite well
if you don't over power them, more than 200% of rated power.

Bruce in alaska
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