Where exactly is the best place to mount your Transducer. Mine is on the bracket on the Port Side toon. Mine will only read the depth up to 15 MPH then it doesn't read until I slow down again. Anyone have the exact depth the transducer should be mounted on the bracket for best results. Any pictures may help.
Where exactly is the best place to mount your Transducer. Mine is on the bracket on the Port Side toon. Mine will only read the depth up to 15 MPH then it doesn't read until I slow down again. Anyone have the exact depth the transducer should be mounted on the bracket for best results. Any pictures may help.
Do a search as Jack mentioned. This has been discussed a lot. Generally: mounting lower increases depth reading results. For best results, get it slightly lower than bottom of pontoon, but then know you cannot back it, or it can get damaged if it hits something.
Also, in conjunction with lowering it, adjust angle slightly so it will be parallel to water bottom when under speed. This compensates for angle of pontoon when under speed.
I'd be curious to take a poll on who has their depth finder mounted on the starboard toon or port toon?
On all the V hull boats I have owned, they were either mounted from the factory or from a marina as aftermarket on the right side of the outboard. I was told this was because of prop wash generated by a clockwise prop rotation caused issues with the transducer. If you think about it, right hand rotation causes turbulence going down away from a transducer mounted on the right side and cause a upward turbulence towards the transducer mounted on the left side of the outboard.
My Bennington was mounted from the factory on the bracket on the port side. I had many issues on getting it to hold values throughout the full RPM range. I ended up having my marina move it to the starboard side ( I had brackets on both tubes since I had underwater lighting and had the bracket on both tubes). Never had a issue once it was on the starboard toon.
Not to say a Port tube mounting location can't work, but you might have to work on the height and angle of the transducer to get it to function properly. Not only height wise but angle wise might have to be adjusted.
Starboard on mine, no problems. But I also have a high watt chirp transducer.
It never made sense to me about the prop wash turbulence even though I know it's documented. Logically, water rushing across your transducer as you're zooming across the lake making turns and hitting wake is a turbulent affair, and the sonar works fine. My prop is also a foot if not two aft of my transducer, so at speed how is prop wash able to carry back against moving water to hit the transducer? By definition that would be thrust working in the wrong direction and your boat wouldn't go very fast.
Air bubbles disrupt the sonar's ability to cleanly send and receive pulses, so perhaps if your prop is ventilating at times those bubbles can somehow get thrown towards the transducer depending on location. I don't know seems a little wives-taley and maybe only applies to certain boats where the prop and transducer are in very close proximity.
