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| I need to purchase new electronics for my new Tracker. My original equipiment was Lowrance. Does anyone know where I can purchase discontinued (but new!) electronics? Also, other than the fact that when something goes wrong and you have to send it in and you are without both the sonar and the GPS,what are the major advantages and disadvantages of buying a combo rather that two separate units? Suggestions! Thanks Bob |
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Location: Minn. | Gander Mountain is having a sale on all of last years models right now. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Finding the discontinued models are really hit and miss now. This past summer you could find just about any new unit you wanted from numerous large marinas on Ebay. I'd suggest poking around on there, they are definitely not as easy to come by as they were in July and August. |
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| cabelas has a fishelite 642C on sale still - I think - on clearance.
Landry |
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Location: Des Moines IA | I just looked for the Eagle unit on Cagelas, couldn't find it? Already bought one about a month ago for myself though. |
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Location: Bemidji, Lake Vermilion | Purchase a new HDS unit. I bought a HDS-5 last summer to "try them out" and it was fantastic. I will certainly be purchasing a larger screened model sometime soon. |
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| I am seriouly thinking about the HD7 and I know I would just have to get use to looking at a doulbe (smaller) screen
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| I am seriouly thinking about the HD7 and I know I would just have to get use to looking at a doulbe (smaller) screen
Bob |
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Location: Bemidji, Lake Vermilion | Running it in split screen with mapping and sonar both was not an issue for me. While I am muskie casting, I run a very small sonar window, enough to see whats happening with weeds etc, and run the rest of the screen in map zoomed in and using the majority of the screen (the windows in split screen are easily re-sizeable). With one of the larger units it will become even less of an issue, and a person can expand the sonar a little and still have plenty of screen for zoomed in mapping to really hit your spots with precision. |
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Location: Indiana | I would suggest buying the HDS-7, When I bought my boat last year I was thinking about putting the LCX-27/28 on because you could still find them for a good price and were time tested, but went with the HDS7's because it wasn't that much more and I'm glad I did. The units have some nice new features and can be upgraded as newer stuff comes out. |
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| I'm in the same boat, sorta speak, on the GPS combo thing. The older units are fine for me, but they're becoming harder to come by.
If you're starting over, and have the space on the dash, you could consider getting two smaller units. Run one on sonar, the other on GPS and a chip. The one that has GPS.....get the "guts" for it (wires, mount, etc.,) and install and make a separate docking station on the casting deck. When you're up front casting, take the GPS unit with the from your dash mount and install it up front. Pretty easy, two screws and 2-3 wires need to be undone and redone up front.
A walleye friend of mine does this with a pair of 522 or 322 Lowrances, can't remember which, and it works slick.
My situation is that I have a b/w Lowrance global map GPS only chartplotter bolted to the dash, and my ice fishing sonar, a Lowrance x67c next to it. I want (need) a GPS combo up front, so I'm sorta confined to getting a decent enough sized combo for the deck. I'd be more than fine with one of the pre-HDS Lowrances. They do all I need. But even the lcx-20s are going for $300+. The used 332s and 522s are going for 2/3 to 3/4 of what they were new on ebay, and for how many thousdands were made.......there's not a ton of them out there. Maybe there were, and I just missed the big wave. I only started looking a month or two ago.
Edited by muskie-addict 2/7/2010 7:47 AM
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GPS/Sonar delimma