Rage through hull depth finder performance
09-05-2012, 11:38 AM
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Rage through hull depth finder performance
Rage owners, do your through the hull depth finders work only when off plane or also when on plane?
09-06-2012, 06:58 PM
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Depthfinder transducers do not work well in shoot through applications on cored hulls, and ours are. Mine is erratic too.
The coring attenuates the outgoing and incoming signal.
One thing I have noticed is (and on other boats I've owned) hard bottoms return a better signal than sandy or muddy bottoms.
There is a fix for this if you want to get into it.........
You can remove the coring below your transducer, until you get to the fiberglass laminate. Then epoxy the transducer directly to the fiberglass. If you do this, make sure the coring is glassed or epoxied all the way around the transducer, so water can't get into your coring. You should see a huge improvement in depthfinder performance.
Several bass boats I've owned in the past have a small area in the rear of the pad that isn't cored. Sometimes as small as 2" x 2". I just glassed in a puck style transducer there and they would work at all speeds, even up to 80/90, not that I was looking at them at that speed.
The alternative is a transom mount, but they look awful, and are susceptible to impact damage from lake debris.
Regards,
Steve
The coring attenuates the outgoing and incoming signal.
One thing I have noticed is (and on other boats I've owned) hard bottoms return a better signal than sandy or muddy bottoms.
There is a fix for this if you want to get into it.........
You can remove the coring below your transducer, until you get to the fiberglass laminate. Then epoxy the transducer directly to the fiberglass. If you do this, make sure the coring is glassed or epoxied all the way around the transducer, so water can't get into your coring. You should see a huge improvement in depthfinder performance.
Several bass boats I've owned in the past have a small area in the rear of the pad that isn't cored. Sometimes as small as 2" x 2". I just glassed in a puck style transducer there and they would work at all speeds, even up to 80/90, not that I was looking at them at that speed.
The alternative is a transom mount, but they look awful, and are susceptible to impact damage from lake debris.
Regards,
Steve
Last edited by Steve Zuckerman; 09-06-2012 at 07:01 PM.
09-07-2012, 11:27 PM
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Depthfinder transducers do not work well in shoot through applications on cored hulls, and ours are. Mine is erratic too.
The coring attenuates the outgoing and incoming signal.
One thing I have noticed is (and on other boats I've owned) hard bottoms return a better signal than sandy or muddy bottoms.
There is a fix for this if you want to get into it.........
You can remove the coring below your transducer, until you get to the fiberglass laminate. Then epoxy the transducer directly to the fiberglass. If you do this, make sure the coring is glassed or epoxied all the way around the transducer, so water can't get into your coring. You should see a huge improvement in depthfinder performance.
Several bass boats I've owned in the past have a small area in the rear of the pad that isn't cored. Sometimes as small as 2" x 2". I just glassed in a puck style transducer there and they would work at all speeds, even up to 80/90, not that I was looking at them at that speed.
The alternative is a transom mount, but they look awful, and are susceptible to impact damage from lake debris.
Regards,
Steve
The coring attenuates the outgoing and incoming signal.
One thing I have noticed is (and on other boats I've owned) hard bottoms return a better signal than sandy or muddy bottoms.
There is a fix for this if you want to get into it.........
You can remove the coring below your transducer, until you get to the fiberglass laminate. Then epoxy the transducer directly to the fiberglass. If you do this, make sure the coring is glassed or epoxied all the way around the transducer, so water can't get into your coring. You should see a huge improvement in depthfinder performance.
Several bass boats I've owned in the past have a small area in the rear of the pad that isn't cored. Sometimes as small as 2" x 2". I just glassed in a puck style transducer there and they would work at all speeds, even up to 80/90, not that I was looking at them at that speed.
The alternative is a transom mount, but they look awful, and are susceptible to impact damage from lake debris.
Regards,
Steve
09-08-2012, 09:56 AM
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Given the high cost of high performance propellers and drives, and the low water levels on a lot of our lakes, maybe (????) some smart
company would look into how the fishing boat companies do it 
.Best Regards,
Steve
Last edited by Steve Zuckerman; 09-08-2012 at 11:16 AM.
