Raymarine E 127 MFD with Chirp
Submitted by oldy on Fri, 2014-04-18 09:17
Have purchased a Raymarine E127 MFD with chirp. Still trying to understand the sounder.
Does anyone have similar set up that could give me advice on settings for gain etc. generally fishing around 50 - 60 metres. Run split screen with bottom lock currently at around 6 metres. Seem to get gaps in bottom lock with the bottom lock range 6metre.
have run in auto gain and tvg but expect I can get better with manual adjustments.
thanks
JohnF
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Went out on a mates boat a
Went out on a mates boat a few weeks ago, same setup. Very flash and appears great, but the bottom breaks up a lot at anything over 10 knots. Chirp seems very sensitive to turbulence around the tranny. Check your tranny lication and install. Sorry to say this, but brace yourself for a LOT of stuffing about and continuous setting changes. Very sensitive and auto mode is not much chop. To be honest your better off using the E127 as a chart plotter and getting a furuno FCV587 with non chirp tranny for the sounder....set, forget and catch fish..... or get a non chirp tranny for the Raymarine. My other mates old raymarine sounder with non chirp 1 kw in hull is much better in all respects than the CHIRP unit. CHIRP still has a way to go. I think guys with big boats running thru hulls so the tranny is in clear stable water seem to be getting good results, but trailer boats and particularly transom mount trannies dont seem compatible with CHIRP except in calm water.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
Vinesh87
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You running the cp100 or the
You running the cp100 or the cp450 ?
oldy
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Cp450
Cp450
BJH
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What transducer are you
What transducer are you using with yours?