[Public-List] depth sounder

[GLENN P]

Kris, 


I think what Gordo was saying is that tranducers need some sort of liquid medium to transmit signal through the hull into the water and return. West Marine carries replacement transducers with little round universal plastic brackets that you can affix to the inside of the hull with 5200 or other adhesive. As I remember one adds maybe 1/2 cup mineral oil into the bracket and then plugs the transducer into the bracket with the mineral oil bath. This will get you up and running with a permanent fix with about an hours prep time. 


Dolce has an old school 2 quart FG container glassed into the hull that could hold a hull transducer through the lid,s sitting internally in a mineral oil bath, but not exit the hull. The newer DIY transducers are much easier to work with. When I replaced my old depth sounder witha chart plotter few years ago, I mounted one of these units in the existing FG shell to protect the transducer from the usual bilge assaults, but they can go anywhere convenient, so long as they are pointed basically straight down, perpendicular to water line. 


Glenn B 
Dolce 318 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kris Coward" <kris at melon.org> 
To: gewhite at crosslink.net, "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:04:51 PM 
Subject: Re: [Public-List] depth sounder 

On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 10:45:12AM -0400, gordon white wrote: 
> But I have used a depth sounder sending its pulses through the 
> fiberglass bottom. You need a zip-loc bag of water plastered to the 
> bottom (inside) to transmit the signal. 

When you say "plaster" what sort of material do you mean? The old depth 
sounder transducer on Candy Cane seems to have bitten the dust, and it's 
installed in an ABS tube glued to the hull, filled with mineral oil, and 
capped. I'm kinda reluctant to remove the old tube, rather than just 
building a new one, and was wondering if there's any particular magic to 
be applied with the gluing &c.. 

Thanks, 
Kris 

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