Legend 3000

[Moore Fun]

Can anyone tell me if the 3000 is a good locator? and why? I have been looking at them. If not what locator would you choose? I checked the past posts and couldn't find any recent post for the 3000.

[Bad Finger]

Do your search on a Zercom LPG 2000. Same unit - Different company.

Zercom was bought buy Humminbird.

[Greg Walters]

Moore Fun and Bad Finger,

First off, I would like to apologize for my absence from this and other posting boards. My work (and home) duties don't allow me the time to view the boards as I used to (I'm doing this during my daily 1 hour break - often called lunch!). So if anyone has a question or would like to bring my attention to a particular post and has a bit of patience, I will be glad to help with what information I can. I don't always have the time to answer all of my e-mail daily but if you don't mind the wait, my e-mail address is listed below.

Secondly, Humminbird and Zercom are both brand names owned by Techsonic Industries. Zercom was bought by Humminbird some time ago - I can't remember when exactly.

The Legend 3000 is based on and has all of the features and menus of the LPG2000 with a little more (no pun intended). The Legend has three additional menus which control a Temperature Alarm, temperature readout in 1/10 degree increments, and a more powerful transmitter (Legend 3000: 500 watts RMS/4,000 watts Peak to Peak, LPG2000: 400 watts RMS/3,200 watts Peak to Peak) if you are interested in that sort of thing. If knowing the surface water temperature is valuable to you will really like the Temp Alarm feature. This is a fully adjustable alarm that works off of the included Speed/Temp gauge. It can be set to alarm when a temperature is detected outside of, inside of or when it enters a set of fully selectable temperature ranges. There are two additional menus that allow you to set the upper and lower temperature settings for this alarm. In this way you will know (without having to constantly stare at your temperature readout) when you enter or leave a certain temperature range or when you reach a certain surface water temperature.

I hope that this has answered any questions you may have had.


Greg Walters
Product Test and Calibration Technician
Techsonic Industries
greg.walters@techsonic.com

[Hookmaster]

Can you explain what you mean when you said that the Legend 3000 has an additional menu that controls the higher power?

Formerly John in MN

[Greg Walters]

Hookmaster,

Oops! I guess I didn't quite get the information across the way I wanted to. What I meant the Legend 3000 is different from the LPG2000 in the following ways:

A.) That the Legend 3000 has three additional menus that are used to control a Temperature Alarm. These menus are called the (#1) Temp. Alarm, (#2) Upper Temp., and (#3) Lower Temp. The first is used to set the mode that the temperature alarm works in (Off, Inside, Outside, and Both). The Upper and Lower Temp Alarm menus are used to set the upper and lower temperature alarm points.

B.) Temperature on the Legend 3000 is displayed in tenths of a degree (Examples: 54.5 F, 24.0 C).

C.) The Legend 3000 has a more powerful transmitter - Legend 3000: 500 watts RMS / 4,000 watts Peak to Peak, LPG2000: 400 watts RMS / 3,200 watts Peak to Peak.

Now, having stated that, I must tell you that there is a X-mit Power menu in the Super-Users menu group (just like in the LPG2000) that can be used to manually control the transmit power level (Auto, Low, Medium, and High).


Sorry about the confusion, when I went back and read my prior post I can see why anyone would come to the same conclusion that you did.

(Thanks Ron for notifying me about this post!)


Greg Walters
Product Test and Calibration Technician
Techsonic Industries
greg.walters@techsonic.com

[Hookmaster]

Greg,

Have you had any luck getting the low and medium power percentages from the engineers? If high is 100 %, what is low and medium?

Formerly John in MN