FCV 295 transducers
Submitted by Walfootrot on Mon, 2017-06-26 08:49
Getting a new 295 for the new toy.
As it is marine ply with fiberglass skin, they will need to be wet faced, through hull with fairings.
I and awaiting a email from Taylor marine with their recommendations and quotations for the supply and install.
Fishing shallow and deep 450m
For those that are running the 295, what transducer/ transducers are you running?
pros and cons?
Cheers
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More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
Luke
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A MFD like a Garmin has many
A MFD like a Garmin has many more features and flexibility as far as transducers go. For instance you can run a 2kw chirp transducer and run it on multiple frequency's at the same time and also have more flexibility with the frequency range you can use. A lot of the Furuno gear needs to have multiple transducers to come close to one transducer. The sonar software and capabilities have come a long way in recent times.
JohnF
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I have the latest Garmin gear
I have the latest Garmin gear running 3 separate transducers including Chirp. It works great, but I still miss the "look and feel" of the old skool Furuno. If I could fit a 295 in my dash, I would have one.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
Shark1
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yes but yours mark spots u
yes but yours mark spots u can scroll back to and otgher nice little tricks
love my 295 -but I heard stories about the garmin being amazing at speed
Tim
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Transducer
If had a boat like the one you are fitting out I would be fitting a 3kw 38khz (38BL 15HR) wet faced for the deep stuff and a 1kw wide beam 200 like the SS175HW.
Best of both worlds then. Horespower for the deep and detail in the shallows
Walfootrot
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Looks like the 38BL-15HR is
Looks like the 38BL-15HR is the go for the deep stuff, issue with the SS175HW, not suited to my hull and fairing.
AllMarine have a fairing that will house the 38BL-15HR and a 200B-8B, may need to look at the 200B-8B a bit more....
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
resurgence
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I had the 38BL and the 200B,
I had the 38BL and the 200B, but replaced the 200 a little while ago with the SS175HW. The 200 is very powerful, cheap and small, but it has a very narrow cone angle, only 5.5 degrees both fore/aft and port/stb. In 50m of water you are only painting a 5m diameter circle on the bottom.
Why not just put the 175 in a straight thru hull, with the 38 in a fairing block?
Walfootrot
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hull is fiberglass over ply
hull is fiberglass over ply so the 175 is a no go
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
Marineboy
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Ss175
this is a through hull not in hull tranny, why can't that be fitted ?
My spots are so secret even the fish don't know about them !
Tim
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The SS175 is wet faced. You
The SS175 is wet faced. You drill a big hole and it mounts on the outside of the hull.
swarf
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transducer fitment
You can rout the ply out about 12mm leaving the glass, tape edges of hole and fill with glass chop strand mat/epoxy resin slushy to seal up the hole, clean up the edges when its set and use Sika 291 the seal transducer and tighten the big nut on the back
resurgence
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Plenty of timber cored
Plenty of timber cored fibreglass boats have thru hull transducers and other fittings.
Your boat must have other thru hulls for water pickups and discharges?
Walfootrot
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Just going off what it said
Just going off what it said here...
Steel or aluminium hulls....
will have a chat with the shipwright and see if it can be done... just don't like making holes in boats..
Airmar SS175HW CHIRP Transducers enable bottom detection down to 400m+ with 5 to 10 times greater detail.
Their Resolution is so precise it’s possible to distinguish between individual bait Fish, game Fish, and underwater structures.
This Transducer is designed for smaller boats up to 36 feet (11 m), a tilted element model in the CHIRP Thru-Hull product Line.
Features:
•Frequencies: 130-210 kHz @ 25° beamwidth
•300m+ Usable Depth
•6m+ or large Boat size with Steel or Aluminum hulls
•Depth & Temperature
•CHIRP Technology
•High-Performance
•Stainless Steel
•Exclusive Transducer ID
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Tim
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Back
Other option is to mount it off the transom on an angle bracket if you really dont want to drill a hole.
Got to be one of the best shallow water transducers going and was still giving a pic in 250-300m
resurgence
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Ignore that
There are hundreds of these transducers installed on fibreglass boats, mine included.
reece
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I run a 2kw 38 and a 2kw 200
I run a 2kw 38 and a 2kw 200 both wetfaced and transom mounted and recn ya can't beat them! If your wet facing I wouldn't worry about going 3kw
Any one free to help me pull my drum lines tomorrow?
Shark1
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i only run a 1kw b260 however
i only run a 1kw b260 however mine is a thru hull wetfaced- cut a hole in your boat tranni
been plenty good up to the 350m -distinguish blue eyes from the bottom like nothing else, still working on settings for the grey bands and puka, lack of getting there only picked up one 9kg grey this far in 2 trips seems TVG might help it seems
would love to see a 2kw in comparison like you have Reece
as for cutting the hole -it needs to be done m8, Swarf is absolutely right- if done right it is stronger than the rest of the hull and almost no chance of ever cracking leaking etc
the biggest reason i went wetfaced is so i could place it far from motor and noise close to centre line