Furuno tvg
Hi all I have a fcv 627 and on Sunday had a play with the TVG settings , normally don't use this function or have it on low but decided to have a play with very poor results .
Turnig the setting up to high or even med resulted in a screen full of vertical lines mainly yellow , this obviously didn't seem right so I turned the function off but in hindsight should have played with the clutter/colour erase or even the basic gain to see if I could dial it out .
Anyone have this setting sussed ??? Furuno market it as a special function so I presume there is some merit to it or they wouldn't have developed it .
I presume the function applies to the bigger units aswell although I have noticed that the deep drop guys use it more so maybe it's a bigger unit/ power thing ???
Cheers for any info fishfish
wangler
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How deep/shalow
were you ?
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Dougie
JohnF
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Tvg if used correctly will
Tvg if used correctly will transform your FCV from a mild mannered recreational sounder to a ball tearing semi pro unit.
Only use high tvg in deep water (plus 100m) and turn down gain a LONG way. In 400 m yesterday we were using only 2.1 gain with a 1 kW transducer and getting good fish shows. Only use the minimum colour and clutter erase you can.
Worth playing with.
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fishfish
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Tvg
Hhhhmmmm well this defiantly sounds like its worth playing with and I'm in love with the unit already so I can't wait . Thanks John for your tips and there was a deep drop photo I saw somewhere and the gain was unbelievably low but had a good showing...
Dougie I can't remember exactly as I moved around from shallow ( 40m) to deep (90m) and back to shallow during the day but I want to say shallow ?? Pretty sure it was early in the morning when I was playing with it ..
Cheers fishfish