Can you cut a transducer wire and successfully rejoin it
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Can you cut a transducer wire and successfully rejoin it
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Sure can.......cut my old ls6100 cable and bought a joiner of taylor marine and had no drama........looked like a coax joiner to me.
Dan
I cut and joined my transducer cable on my yak to get the cable through the gland fitting to be watertight. No problems what so ever, plus I removed about 10 feet of the cable as well. Reads the depth identical to my boat's sounder so I am pretty sure the accuracy is not affected with the shorter cable. I soldered each wire back together and double heat shrunk each wire then heat shrunk the entire area after carefully overlapping the sheilding over the joint.
After going through all that I realised I could have twice as easily used fine wire crimps rather than solder then the heat shrink over the top.
Jack.
I bought new transducer today from stones corner marine. They told me that if u joined wires then it would not read correctly.
Yeah I did it once when a mates dog chewed through the wire just above my brand new sounders transducer. Worked fine after that, but for some reason the dog didn't like me anymore!! It wasn't a high performance sounder tho just an estuary tinny.
I ended up drilling bit bigger hole and didn't cut transducer wire. All just about in jet ski.
Hope it al works on weekend.
Naa thats BS..........they just wanted a sale..........Originally Posted by Seahorse
Dan
I already bought it. I definitely needed one, so they didn't just want a sale.
I still have my doubts as to whether it would read to its max capably if wires were joined.
Thanks everyone.
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Like any thing if you join the wires corectly using the right stuff you should not increase the impedance on the wires to affect its operation
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