Hello,
My plotter is a B&G Zeus 3S. It supports forward scan, but those transducers are big $. Instead I use a cheap in hull transducer that is epoxied to the hull in the v berth. I'm sure that I lose some depth performance, but I don't care about shallow water so that doesn't bother me at all. I bought the lowest cost Lowrance (Navico is the parent company of B&G, Lowrance, and Simrad) unit I could find The only important part was that it operate at a frequency other than 200KHz.
I had a B&G Vulcan on my previous boat and i used the same transducer to make the echo sounder work on that too.
I think this is the transducer I have:
Here's a picture from the owners manual of what the sonar display looks like
Barry
My plotter is a B&G Zeus 3S. It supports forward scan, but those transducers are big $. Instead I use a cheap in hull transducer that is epoxied to the hull in the v berth. I'm sure that I lose some depth performance, but I don't care about shallow water so that doesn't bother me at all. I bought the lowest cost Lowrance (Navico is the parent company of B&G, Lowrance, and Simrad) unit I could find The only important part was that it operate at a frequency other than 200KHz.
I had a B&G Vulcan on my previous boat and i used the same transducer to make the echo sounder work on that too.
I think this is the transducer I have:
Here's a picture from the owners manual of what the sonar display looks like
Barry
What is the SONAR unit that you have? Is it the ForwardScan? Does it protrude thru the hull or is it flush?