LWinches
02-08-2010, 09:39 PM
I have a friend that was once accused of being prejudiced. He answered that he was not prejudiced. He hated everybody. That's how this post may sound. Here are some of my complaints about various sonars. As long as sonar has been around it seems like most of the companies would include more feature options. I don’t see other posts about this so I guess I’m the only one so particular (or maybe it’s weird) about this. So then, of course, all this is just my opinion. You may not agree.
1. Vexilar Edge3 has dual frequency, dual screen and dual real time sonar. I have not seen any other brand that provides the dual real time sonar. This is one of the real advantages of this unit. Couldn’t Humminbird and Lowrance do that.
2. Lowrance and Eagle units (and others) have a manual ping speed adjustment. Humminbird does not. What a bummer. This is a useful option for me.
3. Humminbird had a wide real time sonar option. I really like this. The best I’ve seen was in a Furuno LS6000. Adjust it where you want. For Lowrance, even on their HDS units you have to max the ping speed to get a wider real time sonar. Too bad if you want to lower the ping speed.
4. Lowrance and Vexilar work well at all depths I fish. Hbird is superperb down to 100 feet, but deeper than that it makes its own interference. I’ve used 525, 565, Matrix 37, Matrix 47, 777c2 and 997c. They all did it. I think I could have cleaned it up if I could have adjusted the ping speed.
5. Vexilar Edge3 has 320 vertical pixels. This is a great unit but one just like it with 640 pixels would be a better unit. An independent manual ping speed adjustment would also be an improvement. Slowing the scroll speed to slow the ping speed is not what I have in mind.
6.Lowrance HDS and older units have lots of transducer options included some from Airmar. The necessary details to match Airmar transducers to Hbird units is just not available.
7. Nobody, I mean NOBODY does as good a job of filtering out interference as the Lowrance HDS I used. Are they the only ones to figure this out?
8. Does anybody other than Vexilar realize that some of us would like to have a sonar running on something other than 200 Khz? or in a dual frequency something besides 200/83 or 200/50? Older Apelco's used 120 and 170 effectively. Bottom line used 455 in a traditional down looking sonar. I know 200 is supposed to be the best, but I also know these other frequencies will work very well down to 150 feet.
Ok. I'll get off my soapbox now and let all of you slice and dice me for criticizing your favorite brand and being so negative about all this. It's just that when I look at how long sonars have been out there, we ought to have more choices.
L.Winchester
1. Vexilar Edge3 has dual frequency, dual screen and dual real time sonar. I have not seen any other brand that provides the dual real time sonar. This is one of the real advantages of this unit. Couldn’t Humminbird and Lowrance do that.
2. Lowrance and Eagle units (and others) have a manual ping speed adjustment. Humminbird does not. What a bummer. This is a useful option for me.
3. Humminbird had a wide real time sonar option. I really like this. The best I’ve seen was in a Furuno LS6000. Adjust it where you want. For Lowrance, even on their HDS units you have to max the ping speed to get a wider real time sonar. Too bad if you want to lower the ping speed.
4. Lowrance and Vexilar work well at all depths I fish. Hbird is superperb down to 100 feet, but deeper than that it makes its own interference. I’ve used 525, 565, Matrix 37, Matrix 47, 777c2 and 997c. They all did it. I think I could have cleaned it up if I could have adjusted the ping speed.
5. Vexilar Edge3 has 320 vertical pixels. This is a great unit but one just like it with 640 pixels would be a better unit. An independent manual ping speed adjustment would also be an improvement. Slowing the scroll speed to slow the ping speed is not what I have in mind.
6.Lowrance HDS and older units have lots of transducer options included some from Airmar. The necessary details to match Airmar transducers to Hbird units is just not available.
7. Nobody, I mean NOBODY does as good a job of filtering out interference as the Lowrance HDS I used. Are they the only ones to figure this out?
8. Does anybody other than Vexilar realize that some of us would like to have a sonar running on something other than 200 Khz? or in a dual frequency something besides 200/83 or 200/50? Older Apelco's used 120 and 170 effectively. Bottom line used 455 in a traditional down looking sonar. I know 200 is supposed to be the best, but I also know these other frequencies will work very well down to 150 feet.
Ok. I'll get off my soapbox now and let all of you slice and dice me for criticizing your favorite brand and being so negative about all this. It's just that when I look at how long sonars have been out there, we ought to have more choices.
L.Winchester