Fish Locator

[Franki]

Re: Fish Locator

I just went to the hummingbird site as well, had a big winge about lack of function at speed.... (in a nice way..) <br /><br />I am hoping that I too will be send a new sender unit..<br /><br />I have a 17 foot boat with a 100HP outboard.. it goes without saying that I can go alot faster just cruizing then the Wide 100 can read at... so 90% of the time I am moving, I can't read the bottom anymore..<br /><br />rgds<br /><br />Frank

 

[Forktail]

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loggerhead, my Humminturds both had the larger, high-speed transducers. Humminturd told me I was mounting them wrong. But I tried mounting them every which way, etc. No luck. Even tried them on two other boats. Waste of time and money.<br /><br />The Eagle/Lowerance transducers are smaller and work perfectly....in the same boat on the same mount location.<br /><br />I will never buy another Humminturd.

 

[ajohnston]

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Loggerhead and Franki JB and everyone who replied.<br />Hummingbird sent my unit back with another new transducer just like the one i had, email them again and they sent me another one XHS-6-16so now have three, unable to test it yet due to water level, lake is at winter time pool will let you know if it works in April when they close the gates.<br />Thanks everyone

 

[Franki]

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Here is the response I got back from hummingbird about my problem.<br /><br />###################################<br />Dear Sir:<br /><br />We would recommend an in hull transducer installation. Please see attached<br />instructions.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Tina Conner http://www.humminbird.com/hb_MoreSupport.asp?id=147 <br />###################################<br /><br />my hull is old, its very very thick solid fiberglass, I have a suspecion that it would be even worse trying to get a reading though the hull. (this hull has no cross supports, just two huge beams running up the center of the hull and really thick F/G, so I think most of the signal would be lost just getting through the hull.<br /><br />fat lot of good their advice is..<br /><br />I'm not make the mistake of spending 400 bucks on anything from that company.<br /><br /><br />rgds<br /><br />Frank

 

[ebbtide176]

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[ebbtide176]

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i have an HDR200 that uses the XHS-6-16 high speed xducer as stock unit. it will do crazy stuff like jump from 5 to 180 just doing fast idle.

 

[Franki]

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If they don't come up with a workable answer to my queries, I will be emailing them this entire thread so they can see how it will hurt their future sales and company image..<br /><br />I actually thought my unit was well built, it just doesnt' work..<br /><br />and I found alot of cheaper units with more features after I bought the wide100... which is always the way isn't it? <br /><br />I bought the hummingbird because I was under the impression that they were an old well established company.. <br /><br />I won't make that mistake again I think.<br /><br /><br />rgds<br /><br />Frank

 

[RJS]

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I previously owned a Zercom Liquid Paper Graph. The tranducer is the same as Hummingbird. I've had similar problems at high speed. Try pointing the tranducer down a little more. This sometimes helps. The tranducers that Hummingbird uses are just not that hydrodynamically efficient. Lowrance's design seems to work much better, if you can keep the actual fishfinder unit working (I've had bad luck with Lowrance, although their service is good). I've switched to Furuno and will never go back.

 

[flatsman]

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Hey, I have 3 Hummers and they all have worked fine ---set it up in the right place on your boat and it will work just fine ---no depth finder can see thru air bubbles. I have one on a cobia I run offshore and it does great at 39 mph. Grass on transducer ain't good on any brand or grease on it either,<br /> [[*]null

 

[enriquepagan]

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At times we learn from each other..Now I understand why my hummingbird doesnt work while in faster speeds.. Thanks for asking the ????

 

[JB]

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Moving to Electronics.

 

[Gold Bear]

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ajohnston <br /><br />I think there may be something to the high speed transducer.<br /><br />I have a 15 year old Platium ID Hummingbird. Generally it works great on my bass boat (at 50 mph).<br /><br />Every now and then it will loose its signal - but if I re-adjust the transducer back to level with the bottom and about 1/4" below level it works fine at high speed. Also, make sure to wipe the bottom of the transducer clean every now and then.<br /><br />Good Luck,<br /><br />Gold Bear