11-19-2018, 12:31 AM
Hope it's ok to post this here.
I am getting a finder ready for ice fishing. It is a HB Helix 7 that has an ice fishing flasher mode. It requires an ice fishing transducer that looks like a bell shape with the cable coming straight up out of the tip of the cone (looks like the transducers you see with standard flasher finders like vexilar).
Being an old electrical guy, I don't like the transducer, which has some weight to it, hanging directly on the cable. Seems like there should be some strain relief.
The standard depth finder graph type unit I have used for ice fishing has the transducer like you mount on your boat. I mounted it on a short piece of pvc pipe and tie wrapped the cable to the pipe. No strain on the connection of the cable to the ducer.
What have others done, or do you just go ahead and use the transducer as it is?
Appreciate any info, experience on this.
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I am getting a finder ready for ice fishing. It is a HB Helix 7 that has an ice fishing flasher mode. It requires an ice fishing transducer that looks like a bell shape with the cable coming straight up out of the tip of the cone (looks like the transducers you see with standard flasher finders like vexilar).
Being an old electrical guy, I don't like the transducer, which has some weight to it, hanging directly on the cable. Seems like there should be some strain relief.
The standard depth finder graph type unit I have used for ice fishing has the transducer like you mount on your boat. I mounted it on a short piece of pvc pipe and tie wrapped the cable to the pipe. No strain on the connection of the cable to the ducer.
What have others done, or do you just go ahead and use the transducer as it is?
Appreciate any info, experience on this.
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