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  • #389872

    Scatcat
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    Are you still looking for an antenna? I just took one off my cougar… cant remember if its a 2000 or a 3000 but I can look tonight if youre still needing one…

    #457086

    Scatcat
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    Check out YouTube… Pete Wenners has a video about the point 1 mounting and use, makes a few good points. He has 2 on his boat… one for the console graphs and one for the now graphs. If your ducer is at the rear and your point 1 is at the bow all your waypoints will be 20ish feet off from the get go…. just something to keep in mind. If you mark one facing one direction and the next time you come back youre facing the opposite you could potentially be 40 feet off the mark.

    #455931

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    Whats the difference between the tempest and the fury?

    #457088

    Scatcat
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    Your latitude and longitude will always be where your GPS antenna is whether you are using a point one, lcg or the internal antenna on the unit. If you put your sonar transducer on a 50 mile long cable, drove the transducer to the lake and dropped it on top of your favorite brush pile and started marking waypoints its still gonna show your boat sitting in the garage on your map because thats where the GPS antenna is. And your waypoints will be in your garage 50 miles off. The only way that graph knows where in the world it is, is by triangulation between your GPS antenna and 3 or more satellites. Therefore the further your GPS antenna is from the sonar transducer, the further off your waypoints will be from correct. If your antenna is directly above the transducer it doesnt matter how you mark it, they will be accurate.

    #457090

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    Right… but the boat ramp is already part of your map. How does it know where that rock is?

    #457092

    Scatcat
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    When you see something on the side imaging and you scroll over to it with your cursor, the coordinates that is shows you are calculated based on your boats GPS coordinate. It figures your boat coordinates by your GPS antenna.

    #455934

    Scatcat
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    Thanks oldtimer57, great info Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

    #451354

    Scatcat
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    Don’t blow the bank account on high dollar LEDs. You can buy 1 foot waterproof LED strips from eBay in the color of your choice for a couple bucks each. They come with 9 inch wire leads already attached and an adhesive back. As long as you have power to your lights it should be a fairly easy swap. Soldier and shrink wrap would make a nice trouble free connection.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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