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Post by Creative on Aug 4, 2012 5:57:23 GMT -5
Anyone know anything about these... a friend of mine is looking into the Lowrance HDS units and some of the Humminbird units..
If he gets an HDS Gen2 it will be a 5" screen. HDS Gen1 would be a 7" screen.
the Humminbirds would be similar.
is down imaging necessary?
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Post by Tampaboy19N on Aug 4, 2012 6:06:14 GMT -5
Down imaging = bottom only. You wont really see any fish/bait. It's excellent for bass fishing and has only a couple of saltwater uses. Personally, unless he's fishing bass strictly id go with a standard unit.
The HDS gen 1 and 2 are identical other than the processor speed. The gen 2 is certainly faster but your buddy needs to determine what is more important, speed between screens or screen size.
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Post by Creative on Aug 4, 2012 6:07:15 GMT -5
well, screen speed would be nice if you were going faster, right?
There is like one lake that we can actually go faster than 5mph.
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Post by Tampaboy19N on Aug 4, 2012 6:19:22 GMT -5
The sonar beams will display the same image at basically the same time on gen 1 and the gen 2. The speed increase comes when switching between screens (navigation to fish finder, fish finder to split screen, etc).
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Post by Steven on Aug 4, 2012 6:19:55 GMT -5
Hds 8
Get side scan too
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Post by Creative on Aug 4, 2012 6:20:12 GMT -5
ah.. I doubt he would ever change it off the fish finder
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Post by Creative on Aug 4, 2012 6:20:53 GMT -5
So would you buy a Lowrance or a Humminbird ?
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Post by Tampaboy19N on Aug 4, 2012 6:21:08 GMT -5
I bought a cheap hummingbird bobber on amazon, didn't really work
Lowrance > humminbird. Both have sh*tty customer service (generally speaking) but lowrance makes a better unit.
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Post by Steven on Aug 4, 2012 6:22:13 GMT -5
humminbird has great customer service.
but lowrance > humminbird
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Post by Tampaboy19N on Aug 4, 2012 6:22:40 GMT -5
**** no they don't have good customer service. I called them one time and i was on hold for 30 minutes
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Post by Creative on Aug 4, 2012 6:23:15 GMT -5
Thanks for the tips.
DarC?
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Post by meldivine on Aug 4, 2012 15:28:07 GMT -5
I'm sure darc has tips
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