Noticed a decent deal on a Fishfinder, I did a bunch of research on them lately(months)
Seems Garmin is about to get a class action lawsuit. And they are dumping this particular model cause of it. It seems to have caught them off gaurd with tons of inventory leading to lower prices
I'm talking about the Garmin echomap Chirp 94sv. Not the newer plus.
The plus adds touch screen, updatable with a cellular phone via WiFi, And a transducer with a down element more on that in a bit.
So for 579$ from various places you can get the echomap chirp 94sv. Basically at heart it's a very capable unit, nmea 2000(autopilot, engine, dsc, ais, wind, but doesn't do radar), nmea 0183, panotix sonar port, Bluechart g2 base map, transducer (cv-51).
So here's the problem Garmin violated a patent and the unit originally had the gt series transducer which had side scan elements and downscan elements
Garmin was sued so they quietly pulled the gt transducer from the boundle and replaced it with a CV series transducer. Which was exposed by Lowrance as only having side view elements.
Apparently the menu changed downvu, changed from down scan in a previous software update. It seems the CV units use both elements to get downscan using in software filtering. When was the last time a display demo fishfinder at a store was updated?
Likely we aren't missing any detail. On the chirp 94sv if we were I think a class action would be surfacing soon. Garmin's response was discontinuing the model with a large amount of units on hand.
If your not happy a new gt transducer is still available separately and in production. Or a panotix sonar add on can make it not even a issue or even get a separate dragonfly 4 for down view or something 579$ is cheap for a 9" networkable unit. For comparison the Simrad go5 xse is 569$ and it's a much smaller unit, with less and more
Seems Garmin is about to get a class action lawsuit. And they are dumping this particular model cause of it. It seems to have caught them off gaurd with tons of inventory leading to lower prices
I'm talking about the Garmin echomap Chirp 94sv. Not the newer plus.
The plus adds touch screen, updatable with a cellular phone via WiFi, And a transducer with a down element more on that in a bit.
So for 579$ from various places you can get the echomap chirp 94sv. Basically at heart it's a very capable unit, nmea 2000(autopilot, engine, dsc, ais, wind, but doesn't do radar), nmea 0183, panotix sonar port, Bluechart g2 base map, transducer (cv-51).
So here's the problem Garmin violated a patent and the unit originally had the gt series transducer which had side scan elements and downscan elements
Garmin was sued so they quietly pulled the gt transducer from the boundle and replaced it with a CV series transducer. Which was exposed by Lowrance as only having side view elements.
Apparently the menu changed downvu, changed from down scan in a previous software update. It seems the CV units use both elements to get downscan using in software filtering. When was the last time a display demo fishfinder at a store was updated?
Likely we aren't missing any detail. On the chirp 94sv if we were I think a class action would be surfacing soon. Garmin's response was discontinuing the model with a large amount of units on hand.
If your not happy a new gt transducer is still available separately and in production. Or a panotix sonar add on can make it not even a issue or even get a separate dragonfly 4 for down view or something 579$ is cheap for a 9" networkable unit. For comparison the Simrad go5 xse is 569$ and it's a much smaller unit, with less and more
