Doug, I don't remember since my boat is in winter storage, But there is a setting in Navionics where the sonar updates the depth contours. Then when you scout ahead, the Navionics map updates and you can take that back to the boat.
The navionics numbers should be to the top of the water. Your transducer is likely a foot or so below the water height, so you have a built in margin of error.
Great unit. My boy and I installed it in about 2 hrs (I have lots of experience) an we were on the water marking fish and depth. Couldn't ask for a better unit for the price!
If you have an older / obsolete phone that will work with it, it may be a bit safer to use. Hitting a wave may cause your main phone to turn into a submarine!
So you get excited when tech works too, eh Doug? A rare feeling these days. I had the same experience recently with a Tactacam Reveal XB Trail camera. It worked right out of the box and it still works. Intuitive "walk through" instructions. Quick--actually useful--pop up notes like "changes to this function may take up to 24 hours to come into effect," sparing you the agonizing 30-minute "WTF...why isn't this change working?! I did it 3 times but...nothing!" followed by the 45-minute "tech department call" where someone says "oh, just wait 24 hours for the changes to take effect." Arrrg@! Enjoy paradise, Doug!
A tablet in the pilot house might be able to connect concurrently with the sonar and phone to provide both the Seeker and the tender the same information if they were close.
Will the sonar phone connect to your pilot house displays at the same time. What is the wifi range. So you have somebody in the outboard in front of you watching for sand bars. So you can stop seeker before pulling up to the bar. Sailing Uma on youtube has a sonar that allows you to do a 360 or wide turn in your selected Anchorage to record a 3D scan of the botton that is shared with the manufacturer's mapping so others can access that chart too.
You should get a proper battery box for that battery. If the towel you are using for a battery cover gets too damp it could fry everything and/or start a fire.
@@user2C47 I nearly burned down my entire house with a 12 volt motorcycle battery. Damn battery store gave me the exact same one but it had reverse polarity. The design didn't make it easy to notice the mistake so they payed me out of company insurance for a totaled motorcycle. It went up in smoke in my garage
The piece of angle was a good idea. Because transducers are replaced several times in the life of a boat, its always best to not bolt it directly to the hull. Especially because the holes for the new one never lines up with the holes from the old one. I bought a one inch thick plastic cutting board an bolted it to the transom of my boat. My transducer is crewed in to that. It will probably take 50+ replacement transducers before I would need to replace it. And even then I can use the same two bolt holes for a new cutting board. The cutting board was actually huge so I only used a third of it. The rest I am using as a cutting board. lol
Just got one of these and it works in the sonar phone app but won’t display on navionics, I have seen a post in a forum saying the latest version of navionics no longer supports it, has anyone else found that it no longer works with navionics
That inline connector doesn't look to be waterproof? If it is not waterproof, that is a bad design:( multi pin connectors that are waterproof are a dime a dozen, so why not use the right thing.
