Has anyone installed an in hull transducer in the engine compartment of a boat with a step hull? I have a 2004 382 and that seems like the best spot that would stay in contact with the water.
Thread: In hull transducer
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03-25-2009 09:06 AM
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03-25-2009 09:37 AM
My transducer is about a foot from my transom on my stepped hull. Seems to read pretty consistently.
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03-26-2009 10:11 AM
By in-hull, are you referring to gluing (epoxy) a transducer inside the hull in the engine compartment? Most transducers today are thru-hull, requiring you to drill a big 'ol hole in the bottom of your boat. I would contact Formula on where they place their transducers from the factory.
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03-26-2009 11:27 AM
Not true. Almost all "pucks" are epoxied to the inside of the bottom of the boat. Often, they are in the engine compartment. If you have a cored fiberglass hull structure, it's not going read well. If you have a solid fiberglass hull structure, it ought to do well as long as the epoxy is solid and thorough with no air bubbles or gaps.
Usually, the best advice for a step bottom boat is to put the puck/transducer in front of the foremost step on the boat, as close to the bottom of "V" as possible.Brian Tillett; Active Thunder Factory Representative
wwwActiveThunderBoats.com
brian(a)activethunderboats.com
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03-26-2009 11:41 AM
Are you sure? Most boats I have seen in the last 10 years have thru-hull transducers, not ones epoxied to the inside of the hull bottom. Of the 4 boats I have owned, all have been thru-hull. I installed a depth finder years ago on the boat I had at the time and used one of the pucks that you epoxy in the engine compartment. This was on a solid fiberglass bottom boat. It worked right about half the time. Swapped it out with a thru-hull transducer and it worked all the time.
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03-26-2009 12:31 PMI did call Formula and they put them under the fuel tank when it is being built. I think the step hull brings in air so the transducer would have a hard time reading.