greg123 Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Hi, I just bought an HDS5 (Gen 1) and I'd like to upgrade the transducer as I'll be mainly fishing offshore towards the shelf. Does anyone have any suggestions/experience with this? I've done a quick search and found two that looked good: A bronze thru hull (B164) with temp sensor, and An in hull (M260) without temp sensor I've heard that furuno uses the same transducers as lowrance. Will the plugs fit perfectly? Any other suggestions are very welcome. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a boat Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Hi, I just bought an HDS5 (Gen 1) and I'd like to upgrade the transducer as I'll be mainly fishing offshore towards the shelf. Does anyone have any suggestions/experience with this? I've done a quick search and found two that looked good: A bronze thru hull (B164) with temp sensor, and An in hull (M260) without temp sensor I've heard that furuno uses the same transducers as lowrance. Will the plugs fit perfectly? Any other suggestions are very welcome. Cheers Hi, we have fitted and I have used many 1Kw transducers and they work great, alot better than transom mount if you can justify the extra cost. Airmar make most transducer for the all brands and the plugs will be different between a Lorwance and Furuno. The M260 is the best becuase you do not have to drill a large hole in the bottom of your boat-it is 100mm hole for the thru hull version and that can be scary to do and can leak. The M260 is well priced at the moment because I have done a bulk buy of them and what I prefer to fit due to no large holes in the bottom of the boat. PM me if you would like the price of the M260. Cheers, Huey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg123 Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 Hi, we have fitted and I have used many 1Kw transducers and they work great, alot better than transom mount if you can justify the extra cost. Airmar make most transducer for the all brands and the plugs will be different between a Lorwance and Furuno. The M260 is the best becuase you do not have to drill a large hole in the bottom of your boat-it is 100mm hole for the thru hull version and that can be scary to do and can leak. The M260 is well priced at the moment because I have done a bulk buy of them and what I prefer to fit due to no large holes in the bottom of the boat. PM me if you would like the price of the M260. Cheers, Huey. Thanks, will do. My only issue with that is the temp sensor which is very important for the sort of fishing I'll be doing. I will probbaly keep a 200/83 transom mount i have currently running with an Elite 5 however I'm not sure how good the temp sensor is in those?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a boat Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Thanks, will do. My only issue with that is the temp sensor which is very important for the sort of fishing I'll be doing. I will probbaly keep a 200/83 transom mount i have currently running with an Elite 5 however I'm not sure how good the temp sensor is in those?? Hi Greg, a temp sender is a temp sender and they would be the same probe in either the Elite transducer or the 1Kw thru hull one, so if you are keeping both on board just get water temp from the Elite and fit the in hull so, as I said, you do not have the scary experience of purposely drilling a 100mm hole in the bottom of your boat. Cheers, Huey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg123 Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 (edited) Ok that's what I was wondering. Yes of course not drilling the hole is preferred. Sounds like the in hull is probably best Cheers Huey Edited February 6, 2012 by greg123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg123 Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 Does anyone have either one of these in a trailer boat? I just spoke to a mate who put the in hull version in his 43 mariner and says it sounds pretty poorly over 10knots. Might be the installation but I'd like to hear if anyone else has some experience with these. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a boat Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Hi, yes as I mentioned we have fitted and I have used these many times and they work great, even at 75K/Hr which is what he last one was fitted to a Haines Hunter 560C. There will be something wrong if your mate can not read over 10knots on an in hull or thru hull 1Kw transducer and my bet would be installation. Cheers, Huey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg123 Posted February 8, 2012 Author Share Posted February 8, 2012 Ok cheers Huey. Any chance you could give me the dimensions of the unit if you have them handy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a boat Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Hi, I am guessing you mean the thru hull M260 and if so best to just goto to the Airmar site and print off the sheet with all the dimensions. Cheers, Huey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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