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| "Standard" rig is a console and bow sonar, each with their own transducer, linked together. Waypoints are shared between the two units whether the trolling motor is engaged or not. I have heard f people hsaring transducers, but other than an equipment malfunction I cant imagine why anyone would want to do that--you want each transducer to be right next to the gps antenna for each unit so you are actually putting a waypoint as close to the actual structure/fish you see as possible.
Ponder this--with side imaging you idle over a flat and see a rockpile 60 feet to the side of the boat. You use the cursor to slide over on the screen to mark the rockpile, and keep idling down the flat to mark other rocks, drops, weedlines, etc. Now stop the boat, turn around and use the trolling motor from the bow to navigate to and fish each of the waypoints, without having to drive the boat over it to find it again with the bow unit, even if its deeper water and you cant see it and there are no landmarks to reference off of. If you DONT have linked sonars you are forced to guess, drive the boat dirctly over something to put a buoy on it, etc if you want to fish it. The opposite also works--find a spot from the bow and next tim you want to fish it it's right there on your console gps so you can go right to it. Once I figured this out and how useful it is, you couldnt pay me to fish with non-linked sonars.
Assuming you have bow and console sonars that are CAPABLE of being linked, the cost to link them is negligible until you start getting to 3-sonar systems and more complicated stuff. On my sonars it's simply one ethernet cable that screws into the back of each sonar, that's it.
Edited by Macintosh 4/6/2016 10:01 PM
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