Splicing wire in transducer?

[Grant Brown]

I have an Eagle Fisheasy2 portable fish finder with gray connectors. It works well but the transducer cable is too short for my boat and the unit won't reach the dash.
I have contacted Eagle but they say it's obsolete and won't tell me what extension cord will work. I have been looking at the LEI XT-12X extension cord but was just told recently that it won't work.
It looks like there is seven conductors on this wire, can I just splice (solder and heat-shrink) a new section in to get the length I need?

Grant

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: Splicing wire in transducer?

you can try it, but i understand it won't work. interferes with the signal.

 

[Boatin Bob]

Re: Splicing wire in transducer?

Pretty sure that's a shielded cable so it's pretty hard to splice properly, may have a degraded signal after.

Have a look at this link http://www.fishfinder-store.com/99-57.html

 

[dingbat]

Re: Splicing wire in transducer?

It looks like there is seven conductors on this wire, can I just splice (solder and heat-shrink) a new section in to get the length I need?

Grant

Thats exactly how it's done. It's a 7 conductor foil shielded cable. It's pretty easy stuff to deal with if you have soldering skills. Othewise I would recommend using a break out box and terminate the ends at a terminal block instead of soldering together.

Here is the cross refence list to get the wiring diagram number for the transducer

http://airmartechnology.com/XRef/

Here are the wiring diagrams for the transducers.

http://airmartechnology.com/airmar2005/ex20/RMProducts/RMMain.asp?LinkID=4&NewID=