weigle metal fab
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Hello,
I recently acquired a boat with the following furuno electronics:
RDP 149 w/ ETR 6/10N, transducer is un known but it appears to be a 744V fairing style.
The FF does not work well, My last boat had the FCV588 w/ the 1kw flush thru hull transducer, it worked amazing. This one not so much.
I'm attempting to troubleshoot. I've been tossing around the thought of upgrading, but I feel for the amount and what I do fishing wise, this set up should be fine. I'm thinking of adding another rdp used 149 to have one as radar and other as ff/chart. I would like to make it a 1KW system for my winter rockfishing trips. what other sounder modules can I hook up to the RDP 149? i keep seeing 10 pin diplexer, can I get a MB 1100 and hook up a 1 kw transducer? What transducer would work best for my fishing, offshore 2-5k feet of water but fish are upper 300' (tuna, yellowtail, etc) like to bottom fish for ling cod and vermilion max 600' ? Obviously I want to fix what I have before I start throwing parts at it but I really don't know how to trouble shoot other that try a known good unit and swap. I can't recall exactly what the unit was doing but I remember it was cluttered and not showing a clear picture of bottom, marks, etc. hoping a new module and ducer will fix it. TIA.
-marcus
I recently acquired a boat with the following furuno electronics:
RDP 149 w/ ETR 6/10N, transducer is un known but it appears to be a 744V fairing style.
The FF does not work well, My last boat had the FCV588 w/ the 1kw flush thru hull transducer, it worked amazing. This one not so much.
I'm attempting to troubleshoot. I've been tossing around the thought of upgrading, but I feel for the amount and what I do fishing wise, this set up should be fine. I'm thinking of adding another rdp used 149 to have one as radar and other as ff/chart. I would like to make it a 1KW system for my winter rockfishing trips. what other sounder modules can I hook up to the RDP 149? i keep seeing 10 pin diplexer, can I get a MB 1100 and hook up a 1 kw transducer? What transducer would work best for my fishing, offshore 2-5k feet of water but fish are upper 300' (tuna, yellowtail, etc) like to bottom fish for ling cod and vermilion max 600' ? Obviously I want to fix what I have before I start throwing parts at it but I really don't know how to trouble shoot other that try a known good unit and swap. I can't recall exactly what the unit was doing but I remember it was cluttered and not showing a clear picture of bottom, marks, etc. hoping a new module and ducer will fix it. TIA.
-marcus