"Courtney Thomas" wrote in message
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Evan, what is recommended as the preferable technique for transducer
embedding ?

Thank you,
Courtney

I've used silicone and epoxy. Had better results with epoxy. My current
boat has a Garmin 120 that is rated to 600' and I reach 800' with it in salt
water. It is shooting through a fairly thin outer fiberglass skin on a foam
cored boat though.

Last boat had a Raytheon 265 that was epoxy glued and got easily 300'+ but
often dropped signal in the muddy Cheseapeake in shallow water.

We also had an Eagle glued with silicone (came with the boat) that worked
o.k. too until the display died.

Garmin recommended epoxy glued.

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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:31:12 -0800, "Evan Gatehouse"
wrote:

We also had an Eagle glued with silicone (came with the boat) that worked
o.k. too until the display died.

I glued with silicone in case I needed to move it.I have a cheapo
Eagle, too, but it works splendidly for my essentially coastal needs,
and I've confirmed its accuracy with lead line sounds.

Fishfinders are a great alternative to "marine" depthsounders, in my
experience.

R.

Evan Gatehouse wrote:

"Courtney Thomas" wrote in message
...
Evan, what is recommended as the preferable technique for transducer
embedding ?


I had a boat that come with a plastic bucket with the bottom cut out that was
silicon sealed to the hull. It was filled with water and the transducer placed
in it.

Water evaporated away quickly so I put the transducer in a plastic bag filled
with water and put the bag/water/transducer into the bottomless plastic bucket
glued to the hull......


paul oman


Thank you,
Courtney

I've used silicone and epoxy. Had better results with epoxy. My current
boat has a Garmin 120 that is rated to 600' and I reach 800' with it in salt
water. It is shooting through a fairly thin outer fiberglass skin on a foam
cored boat though.

Last boat had a Raytheon 265 that was epoxy glued and got easily 300'+ but
often dropped signal in the muddy Cheseapeake in shallow water.

We also had an Eagle glued with silicone (came with the boat) that worked
o.k. too until the display died.

Garmin recommended epoxy glued.

--
Evan Gatehouse

you'll have to rewrite my email address to get to me
ceilydh AT 3web dot net
(fools the spammers)




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