New electronics pkg...couple of questions please.

[Tom Stewart]

Vessel: Tiara 3500 Express
Current Electronics: Garmin 7212, 5802 and B60 Airmar Transducer (no chirp) with 2 3/8 hole. 20 degree tilt at current mounting location.

New pkg includes:
TZ Touch XL 13 x 1
455 kHz side scan x 1
DRS4D-NXT 24" x 1

Questions please:

1. I need to purchase a new down shooting chirp transducer. Usually, I fish in 300' of water or less on the Gulf Coast of Texas...Ocassionally a deeper run, but not that often. I am thinking I should get a LHW transducer. Can you please recommend a tranducer? I am getting mixed/incomplete responses.
2. I do want to continue to use my Raymarine ST7002 auto pilot which is n 0183. What cable do I need to make this work?
3. Do I need a Maretron n 2000 starter kit?
4. Since the XL will handle two transducers and the radar does connect directly to the XL, do I need a n 2000 kit for anything else?
5. The TZ Touch XL has a gps antenna built in......I do have a spare GP 330B from my other boat. Should I mount this GP 330B to this new setup? Any advantages to adding the GP 300B? If I do need or should add the GP 330B, what cable do you suggest.....Connect directly to the TZ Touch XL or to a n 2000 network?
6. I have a ruggedized tablet to use on the boat that has wifi and bluetooth. I assume I can cast from the TZ Touch XL to this tablet. Lets say that I put move the chartplotter to the tablet; will I be able to control the sonar from the table or is it just a display? Second question regarding this casting...Say that I am napping on an overnight trip and I want to cast the radar to the tablet and carry to this tablet to bed with me.....if I have peremiter alarms set, will it use the speaker on the tablet as an alarm or only alarm signal to the helm XL unit?
7. Do I need any kind of fairing block for the side scan....my plan is to mount it right on the keel just forward of the prop shafts.

Sorry for all the questions, but I did several searches and couldn't find the exact answers....Thanks in advance.

Tom

 

[Quitsa]

You might think about spending a bit more and adding an SCX-20 satellite compass. While I assume your Raymarine autopilot must have a heading sensor, it wouldn’t have the precision of the SCX-20, which will also give you highly accurate position and speed data. It will also give you heave compensation for the sounder display. Then you can relegate the internal GPS and the heading from the AP to backups.

If you don’t want to go that way, you will need an NMEA0183 to NMEA 2000 interface, either the Furuno or Actisense. That will allow the AP to receive NAV data and transmit heading to the TZTXL so you can have chart overlay and full ARPA functionality.

If it were me, I would add a B175H tilted element, which can read down to 500 feet or more. It will be much more useful for bottom fishing than the HW.

 

[Tom Stewart]

You might think about spending a bit more and adding an SCX-20 satellite compass. While I assume your Raymarine autopilot must have a heading sensor, it wouldn’t have the precision of the SCX-20, which will also give you highly accurate position and speed data. It will also give you heave compensation for the sounder display. Then you can relegate the internal GPS and the heading from the AP to backups.

If you don’t want to go that way, you will need an NMEA0183 to NMEA 2000 interface, either the Furuno or Actisense. That will allow the AP to receive NAV data and transmit heading to the TZTXL so you can have chart overlay and full ARPA functionality.

If it were me, I would add a B175H tilted element, which can read down to 500 feet or more. It will be much more useful for bottom fishing than the HW.

thank you sir.