Ben Okopnik wrote: > 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. > > > As others have suggested, I'm not really much concerned with anything over 30'. If it's over that I don't want to anchor and it doesn't pose much of a hazard. I guess I'll give it a try.
Thanks, Jim. _______________________________________________ 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
