On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 07:40:44AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > I added about 50 feet of wire to my transducer. I got some two-conductor > shielded wire somewhere, similar to the wire on the transducer, and used > that. > > The depthfinder peters out above 150 feet or so but that doesn't matter to > me.
I've done that before, too, and it worked great. I went so far as to not just connect the shields across the splices but also wrap them in foil, which was probably just a little anal-retentive. :) In my case, though, I didn't lose any sensitivity: the sounder that I had was supposed to read down to 450', and since I was sailing off the north coast of the Dominican Republic at the time, I could test it easily. It worked right up to the max depth. I'm not claiming any extra expertise here, though: I just suspect that some sounders are more amenable to this surgery than others. For the record, if I recall correctly, mine was an old Humminbird fishfinder. -- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET * _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
