humminbird side image help

[Fitzy]

Col,
When its in full SI screen check the range by looking at the top corner of the SI screen. The dark area is the water column, so I'm thinking you either have the range in so close that it isnt hitting anything, or you are in water that is too deep for the unit.
To change the SI range. Go to SI screen hit menu button once. Scroll down to the range, edit & exit button until menus close.

Qs-
Is the unit working in normal 2D mode? Is it showing bottom? If so I think the Xducer is ok.
Is the screen color ok in normal 2D view &/or Chartplot screens? If so the backlighting & pixels are ok so it aint that.

If all else fails, make sure you have the range set properly & run it along some known structure like under a bridge pylon, snags or rocks & see if you get some returns.

These SI units can give some fantastic images. Im always amazed at some of the things I find.

Cheers,

fitz..

[col004]

fitzy, the gps and 2d work fine very clear and showing bottom and the odd fish, i was in a small lagoon thats only 2 to 4m deep, there is no structure i know the lagoon was cleared when it dried up for skiers. the water was very dirty and may have algea in it as well. i will try resetting the range if that fails i might try it in different water. thanks for your help col.

[TimiBoy]

Mine was switched on for the first time last night, and I was impressed, to say the least. We'd had a day out wide; on the way home we swung by a three leg marker, and passed by close in maybe 2m of water. There were the posts, and what may have been a bit fat hungry fishy hiding in there. Will post a photo once wags sends it to me.

We didn't stop to try and catch him, we already had a tank full o' fish! Report to be authored this morning.

Range is important; I suspect it's really not much good a lot of the time at the wider ranges. I couldn't read much far away. And I need to learn to interpret what I'm seeing.

What am I also pleased about? It seems to work with my Furuno sounder pinging away. Obviously different frequencies make a difference! Does two sounders mean I'll catch twice as many fish??

[TimiBoy]

Here is the pylon we checked out. You can see the 3 legs on the left of the picture, with a couple of brighter blobs which are (I think) the fish. We were in 10 metres of water, the pylon maybe 5 mtres, about 7 or 8 metres away from us.

[col004]

timiboy, looks great cant wait to get mine working. did you get a chance to see how deep the side image would reed. col

[TimiBoy]

I didn't tinker much I'm afraid. I was too busy helping my crew by putting them on the fish and netting their catches...

Did get a lovely picture of an undulating bottom in the Rainbow Channel in about 12 m. I mucked a bit with the width, and found that at max range you can't see much. Better to start at low range and move out.

Maybe next trip I'll spend more time, but now the weather's closing us out for a few days I think, damnit.

[stevea]

Hey TimiBoy did you get to use it as a normal sounder? . What furuno have you got?

[Local_Guy]

looks great tim. can't wait to get my hands on it. LOL. j/k mate.....

[TimiBoy]

Stevea, did use it a bit as a normal sounder, it worked fine, but I didn't suss the bottom zoom or any zoom really, so it wasn't much chop in 70+ metres of water - back to the book to work out that one, and plenty of time for it, looking at the weather. My Furuno is a Navnet 1920C (10 inch screen) with a 2 Kw sounder. It's really very, very good, so the Humminbird will only be used for the SI aspect and the barometer, I think.

Jase (Local_Guy), all you have to do is come on down Mate, and we'll go fishin'!

[Local_Guy]

tim that furuno of yours is really good with that 2kw transducer. find some fish turn the transducer on and the come to the surface pre cooked... good stuff .

[TimiBoy]

Yep, I just leave the undersized ones in the water...

[Blinky]

Try this site, it has the answer to most SI questions.
http://www.xumba.scholleco.com/index.php

[TimiBoy]

The pics on the website, particularly of the boat lying on it's side underwater come to mind.

Wags and I had a look at the Houseboat at Peel Island on the SI yesterday. Awesome. there is a boat there. He has a picture. Wags, post the pic if you can!

Going to Curtin arti tomorrow, and will will take more pics. This is looking like an awesome tool, people. I am blown away by it, frankly.

It also works very well as a sounder, fantastic to use in conjunction with my Furuno. In deep water it's nice to be able to look at two sections of the water column.