Humminbird Legend 3000

[Wallydiver]

Just purchased this unit and am very impresssed with it except with the way it marks fish. I get a great bottom reading but the fish it marks are faded and ghosty looking. I have used it in the manual mode and have turned the scroll speed back to 5. Any suggestions on how to darken these fish marks? I realize that you probably are never going to get it to look like the simulator but if I could get these fish to show up darker this in my opinion is one heck of o unit. Thank you.

[House]

The white line, contrast and gain can all affect how dark the return is. Play with those until you get what you want.

The white line will make "hard things" look like a ghost with a darker outline. Adjusting that will reduce or increase this effect. Soft things will have a thicker dark band. A perfect fish mark will be a hook with a dark top edge then fade from there.

Contrast will make all the pixels darker or lighter.

Increasing the gain will pick up fainter returns and if too high will increase screen clutter.

Hope that helps.

KDS

[RickK]

House or anyone,..
I understand the Hummingbird 3000 is the same unit as the now defunct Zercom 2000 lpg with a bit more wattage power. Does anyone know if it makes a great difference?

[House]

I have the LPG2000.

The Legend3000 is the same unit avialble in a "deep water" version and a regular version. Both Legends have a temp alarm the LPG 2000 does not, the deep water has additional power.

As far as wattage goes, think about the depths you're fishing and what you're shooting through. Clear fresh water lakes max depth 100' or salt water depths over 1000'. Get what you need or get what you're comfortable with. My opinion is wattage is more marketing fluff than a true indicator of performance. I think a quality fishfinder is a balanced package, gotta have enough wattage but you also need to pick up the echo, process then display. More wattage won't make up for the lack of the other two. Like wise if a fish finder does all three well but you need a technical course to run it, I don't want it.

The Legend/LPG works well for me. I switch between Auto and Bottom Lock, mess with the gain and the bottom lock ranges and that's about it. All the adjustments are right there. Top knob switches mode, next one adjusts gain, third selects menues and the last push then turn to adjust top range push then turn to adjust bottom range. I can't imagine anything easier for me.

KDS

[RickK]

Thanks House. I also have the Zercom 2000,..have yet to get it wet since I have only got out fishing 4x in three years,..(I want that to change and am working on it) Seems like most everyone that has used the unit out on the water really likes it. Loved my old X-15 paper graph,..hope it comes close,...