Humminbird Wide Optic?

bonz_d

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Can anyone help me out. The boat I just purchased has one and I cannot find any info on it. Was able to find a users manual on their web site but it really doesn't give much info on the unit itself. The boat also has 2 transducers on the transom!?
 

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Re: Humminbird Wide Optic?

I pieced together a Humminbird Wide Eye and the OM from the site had everything I could think of in it.

What kind of info are looking for?
 

bonz_d

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Re: Humminbird Wide Optic?

One off the top of my head is how old is this thing? Must have midded it but what is the resolution. Is this a model that doesn't fit into a 3,5, or 7 series?
 

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Re: Humminbird Wide Optic?

It is one of the Wide series like the Wide Eye and a few others, its around a 1997 or so. Its before the numbered series. I presently have a Wide Eye and while it dose not have a lot of the newer features it works fine. If memory serves the Wide optic is the same as a Wide Eye except it has a larger screen and with out pictures it would be hard to say what transducers you have, but at the time their was the standard down duel beam and a side scan and a water temperature and speed probe'

The unit came with the down looking duel beam. The side scan was a optional unit and unless it has a A/B switch you had to change out the cables. The speed and temperature probe has a paddle wheel so its easy to see the difference. And I believe that's all that are available for it.
 

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Re: Humminbird Wide Optic?

The manual I read on their website states this has side scanning! Is that true? Do you know what the resolution is?
 

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Re: Humminbird Wide Optic?

according to the manual the screen resolution is 64 x 128 pixels.
 

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Re: Humminbird Wide Optic?

Interesting. I acquired one on Sunday in the same manner. Was the manual you downloaded 28 pages? 22-28 are the operating instructions. But you may have missed the reference to the demo mode function.

IMO, none of these things are a magic bullet but it is nice to know the depth of the water.
 

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Re: Humminbird Wide Optic?

None of them no matter how new and expensive will do much more than show you the bottom and depth. They have added a lot of nice stuff so its a matter of how much you wanna spend.

I just looked at it on line and didn't really read through it.
 

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Hello guys, how are you? I have a humminbird wide optic and ive never connect and theres some cables missing now, but i intend to buy them. The question is... does the measure of depths comes in meters in this version of humminbird?
 

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