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I have plenty of room really. No radar, radio mounts on the console hatch, and I'll eventually be installing a cd player/radio, but that will be mounted flush anyway. It really comes down to the cost of the unit itself. I'm actually not going to be buying one for at least a few more months now as I had a little mishap financially (thought I was getting money towards the gps but getting a gift instead). So for now everything is on hold. I think if I can keep my impulsivity at bay, I'll hold out for a while and save up for a 5 series, or another brand's comprable unit, depending on what I learn over the course of the next 3-5 months.
Thanks again everyone for sharing your knowledge, experience, and Rob for the wholesale rout. As always, idk what I would do without this site. I know for one I wouldn't have had a running motor from july on of this year. Instead I got in somewhere around 50+ hours from early sept-dec 1st. For that alone I am extremely greatfull!
oh im sorry man. its a dual frequency transducer, in order for more accuracy in variable depths. wide beam for shallow. narrow for deep if im not mistaken.
-sean
We installed the Lowrance LMS 527cDF iGPS Color Sonar/GPS and have had no problems with it so I don't know if support is good. We spend alot of time on the ICW so the feature we love the most is travelling at 20+ mph w/the dual beam transducer provides accurate depth anywhere we go, fast or slow. The reason we changed was we had a Hummingbird and if we got up over about 15 mph we were reading 200-450 ft in the ICW. So in a nutshell, it's a great unit and was a little under $500, but that was part of the package deal on our renovation project. See personal page for more. Good Luck!
Chris & Dale Schnell
"A Little Madness" - 1989 Montauk 17'
I have a Lowrance HDS5 and it works great. I have had Hummingbirds & Garmins, but have run Lowrance units most recently because of durability and clarity.
