Which sounder to upgrade to?

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Re: Which sounder to upgrade to?

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I'd say familiarity plays a big part.
I've always used Humminbird and find them really easy to use and navigate the menus. I played around with a mates Lowrance just recently and found it a real PITA at first but started to get the hang of it after a few days.
I've just upgraded to the Solix Gen 3 and besides it having a few initial issues with the unit shutting down, which turned out to be corroded wiring, I'm really happy with how it performs.


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blowski wrote: Mon May 24, 2021 9:08 amI now run 3x Solix 15s, and 2x Garmin 9s and I will never go back after the birds
I run the Garmins for GPS and my motor gauges.
What model Garmins Blowski? I need motor gauges.... my LMF-400 has crapped itself...
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2 garmin 942xs which the yamaha gauges run on
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I ended up going with a Garmin ECHOMAP ultra 125SV

Keen to get out to give it a run.

What’s the best way to get a heap of territory marks on it? Can you use sd cards with marks off a lowrance?
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just lay-buyed the HDS 12 live & Hook reveal 9

HDS 12 mainly for fish finding & Reveal for GPS, back up (redundancy) in both

I did notice that just lately the HDS12 Live unit has risen in price.
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Update on my Garmin 8412. I love it.
they update the software regularly to iron out any bugs.
I just email them with the problem and within a few weeks they have a fix.
im talking about trip log dropping out each time i turn it off, so its nothing massive but something that i wanted fixed.
Ive never had anywhere near the support with lowrance
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COOPS wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 7:03 pm I ended up going with a Garmin ECHOMAP ultra 125SV
Hope you like it, just grabbed the same one myself this morning.
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If you're wanting to move nav data around like waypoints, routes etc, the touch screen Lowrances are the way to go. Easy as.

If you don't want to "knob-twiddle" much go for a Garmin. Similar to what blowski's using them for.

I've currently got a H'bird s/scan that works very well until I want to change something. Then whatever it is that I want to do becomes a learning exercise all over again. A real pain (for me anyway).

Have you bitten the bullet yet?
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