Transducer advice.

[psycho]

I need some thoughts from anyone in the know please....!?!?

On the rib that I have just bought, whilst fettling and fiddling around yesterday, I found out, that the transducer, which is a transom type, sat inside the hull, about a foot from the stern, behind the bilge pump.

Is there a big difference between through hull type ones and transom mount ones? When I sea trialed the rib, it was giving a depth reading, but how accurate is hard to tell.

[esoxuk]

There's no problem with a transom type transducer shooting through a fibre glass or even aluminium hull as long as its bonded to the deck without any air bubbles in the adhesive or trying to shoot through a double skinned hull with an air void. The only thing that will not work correctly is the water temperature gauge due to lack of direct contact.

[psycho]

Originally Posted by esoxuk

There's no problem with a transom type transducer shooting through a fibre glass or even aluminium hull as long as its bonded to the deck without any air bubbles in the adhesive or trying to shoot through a double skinned hull with an air void. The only thing that will not work correctly is the water temperature gauge due to lack of direct contact.

Ok, thanks for that.!

I am not bothered about the temp, as I know from diving, that the water is bloody cold.........

[jeffstevens763@g]

usually the shoot through has an angle on it to accommodate the hull angle to set the cone angle at 90 degrees to give true readings