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Old 01-31-2020, 10:49 AM
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Default Re: New Kayak Need Electronics Advice

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Originally Posted by akoop View Post
I was looking at that unit too but I found a bunch of reviews that had people complaining that the unit had trouble in water less that 20 feet. It would start reporting that you were in 1000 feet of water. There were multiple reports of this happening.
i know there can be issues in extremely shallow water (<1'). most likely user error. there are a ton of settings that you can mess with and screw it up. i often have to restore defaults to get back to truth after messing with things. MaxMode does crazy things.

When were these reviews? HB released updated software for all the H5 G2 last August.

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Originally Posted by akoop View Post
I know that you can't do side imaging if the transducer is mounted in the hull but I thought down imaging was ok.
def double check the DI thru hull. I would call the vendor.
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