transducer questions for hds gen2

[Ozie_3]

hi,
im about to upgrade from an eagle 642c igps to a lawrance hds (at this point im looking at 2 stand alone hds 5 units with LSS-2) now these come with 1 of 2 transducers 83khz or 50khz... thats cool.... but can i run my old transducer (HS-50/200-DX) through some adapter cable or rewire a new plug to it ??? so it works on the hds unit ?

most of the other queeries ive located thru existing threads

[Grand_Marlin]

Change the transducer Ozie.
I am 99.9% sure you can't adapt it across to HDS.
Further to that, transducers lose their sensitivity over time so it will be in your best interests to replace it.

Cheers

Pete

[Moonlighter]

Change the transducer Ozie.
I am 99.9% sure you can't adapt it across to HDS.
Further to that, transducers lose their sensitivity over time so it will be in your best interests to replace it.

Cheers

Pete

X2, Pete is on the money.

I did the same upgrade as you are thinking of a couple of years ago, in fact I had an Eagle Seacharter 500cdf, and got 2 x HDS5's, and matched the sounder with an Airmar P66 transducer. Would recommend that to you as well.

Cheers

ML

[Ozie_3]

Thanks guys,

I figured as much...
have pretty much decided on the 2 hds5s with the 83 khz tranny as ive not been in water deeper than 30 meters and the lss2 structure scan....just gota figure from whom, ###### marine seems the best price wise all up 2 grand with enough change for lunch ...260 cheaper than bias

the eagle will find a permenant home on the yak

thanks again

[Ozie_3]

lol ###### )

[Moonlighter]

Ozzie

Just one thing- I got a HDS 5m gps and a hds5x sounder. In hindsight I'd have got a hds5 combo in place of the 5x sounder. Gives you redundancy and also doing software updates is easier because the 5x doesn't have a SD card slot, you have to do that via an Ethernet link with the gps.

I have them linked with Ethernet and NMEA 2000, the Ethernet link gives me full sounder capability on the gps, and the NMEA allows data sharing between the 2 units.

cheers

ML

[Ozie_3]

thanks ML,
looks like the gen 2 has a card slot, never really used it for my oldl eagle... just on the gps side...
ordered today with the hash hash marine...lol....#########
will pick em up early next week then f### up the install