garmin 160

[Tim]

I have a Garmin 240 on my console and I am purchasing a 160 this week. Do you suggest moving the 240 to the t.m. since much of my time is spent up there or keeping the 240 on the console??? Any help greatly appreciated

Stay Safe

[Bad Finger]

The transducers for both units are the same. No reason you can't switch the units back and forth when needed. Yes, I'd run the 240 up front if that is where you do most of your fishing. You will get interference when running both at the same time, however.

[rmitchel]

Interesting about the interference when running both. Will wiring to different batteries help, or is it a function of the transducers?

[Bad Finger]

The transducer operate on the same frequency, therefore they will interfere with each other, especially when mounted on the same boat.

[Silver/MI]

The interference would come from each unit hearing the other units signals, messing up the timing and confusing the unit. The unit barks out a signal and waits to hear it back, but if it starts hearing unit#2 signal it still thinks it came from himself. I would expect a screen full of garbage.

[rmitchel]

Will the garmin 160 blue help/hurt at all -- dual frequency.

[Bad Finger]

I have not used the "Blue" series. I looked at the specs on garmin.com and the 50/200 khz would be enough seperation of freq. It is not clear if the freq setting is manual or automatic. Meaning, I don't know for sure if you can set the 160 Blue at 50 khz and have it stay at 50 khz. You shold contact Garmin regarding that question. Let us know what you find out.

If you can set the 160 Blue at 50 khz and run the Garmin 240 at it's standard 200 khz you will be perfectly OK>

[Greg W]

Badfinger,
Do you know if you can run a garmin 160 off the back and a lowrance x65 off the bow?
Thanks,
Greg W

[Bad Finger]

The X-65 operates at 192 khz and will interfere with the Garmin @ 200 khz. You need at least 20khz seperation, 40 or more is better.