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[QUOTE]Jerry Newman - 3/11/2013  9:27 AM

[QUOTE]D-UNIT - 3/10/2013  5:58 PM

So I am installing a new depth finder in the front of the boat and the transducer will be off the back. Putting the transducer on the trolling motor is not a option. My boat is a 18 foot Lund and the depth finder is a lowerance. The transducer cord is 20 ft long but after running it under the floor the cord isn't long enough to make it to where I need it to be. Is there anyway I can make that cord longer? Can I splice 2 together?[/QUOTE]

Assuming you have a helm unit... and if you don't hook it up as above or below the bow electric as recommended, you would then have to have two transducers mounted on the transom with the bow having some kind of an "extension cord". That would be hokey and a good chance of having "crosstalk" between the two transducers.[/QUOTE]

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Posted 3/11/2013 9:27 AM (#625056 - in reply to #624903)
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D-UNIT - 3/10/2013 5:58 PM

So I am installing a new depth finder in the front of the boat and the transducer will be off the back. Putting the transducer on the trolling motor is not a option. My boat is a 18 foot Lund and the depth finder is a lowerance. The transducer cord is 20 ft long but after running it under the floor the cord isn't long enough to make it to where I need it to be. Is there anyway I can make that cord longer? Can I splice 2 together?

If you have two newer Lowrance units you can run the rear transducer to the helm unit, then just use an Ethernet cable to connect the 2 units together and you will have the same readings on both. I'm no expert but this would be the easiest/best setup I can think of to have a correctly mounted rear transducer for the bow.

Assuming you have a helm unit... and if you don't hook it up as above or below the bow electric as recommended, you would then have to have two transducers mounted on the transom with the bow having some kind of an "extension cord". That would be hokey and a good chance of having "crosstalk" between the two transducers.

Edited by Jerry Newman 3/11/2013 9:27 PM