Seaquest uses one & has it wired, drop him a pm

thanks for the info..great unit just need to know how it works properly and they arent that common.

Had a play with one at chistmas on a mates boat at the Abrolhos. He had been running it just on auto.

A switch onto bottom lock and then just a few tweaks with the gain and I found it to be pretty good.

He got it from the Mandurah boat show a couple of years ago and was installed by the seller.

 on bottom discrim that way you can tell a lot easier if you are on hard or soft bottom. Set the bottom discrim 2/3 of the screen and about 5m from the bottom (general depth dhuies hang around). If fishing in 100m have a range setting of about 40m - 60m and shift down so you can see the bottom in the bottom 3rd of the screen. But before you play with shift set your range to 300m with the gain setting so you have a strong double echo, then change your range back to 40m-60m ( so you only see the bottom 40m-60m) - this way you will have more power on the gain button( maximising the transducer power).Now turn the gain down so your clutter is almost gone   Also run the A-scope on the right hand side, very handy feature. Screen speed 1/1...give it a go. You should see individual fish close to the bottom

appreciate your input. Will get out on water and try . Thanks for the in depth advice wangler.will really help.

Hey mate, I have the same unit and love it. Its amazing how good it can distinguish dhuies from other fish. When looking for ground I use the bottom discrimination mode at a 3m range and split with the normal mode at a 30m range for a 50m depth. If I'm at a spot where I already know where the ground is I just use the normal mode at 30m range to find where abouts the fish are. Dhuies show up on the normal mode as big balls on the bottom, you can't miss them. Most other fish show as varying degrees of arches. In 50m depth I would use a gain of around 3.5. Don,t go to high on the gain or you start seeing things that are a waste of time. There is heaps of other options that you can change when fishing at different depths or after different fish. When I look for sambo schools I turn the colour percentage down so I only see schools of large fish and not schools of bait. Just have to play around with it and experiment. The auto fuction on these units is a waste of time so get used to doing things manually. I sayed that loosing bottom at 20kts is more to do with the tranducer angle, depth and position. No easy to fix but to try different set ups. I have moved mine a million times to find the best position but now can read bottom at any speed until I go deep and have to slow right down but thats the same for everyone.

Appreciate your info. Unit is excellent and cant fault it, just needed some help with fine tuning and will use the tips next time I get out. Have dropped the transduce about 5mm or so and will see how that goes. Its "just" dropping out so hope that will fix.

Thanks to all.

I to have a cvs 128 1kw,when i travel more than 10knts i turn the gain down to 1.8 it helps

i run mine in manual to.and have lowerd the tranducer where know i get a fair bit of spray not ideal but works better

15% colour erase and pretty much same as dokey

hi Dokey could you tell some more about any of the other settings you have had yours a bit longer

Dave said your a guru

cheers Glenn