12-19-2003, 04:52 PM
BLM,
I've always put my X series finders on a Genz ice box. It has room for a battery, wires, and a place for the gimbal bracket. It looks like most of them come with an eyelet type of bracket for the Vexilar type of trancsducer, but they make a ball joint and rod for attatching other transducers. Everything in one package. No assembly required at the lake.
I had an X98df ordered at Sportsmans' Warehouse before Thanksgiving. They called me the day before turkey day to tell me that they couldn't get the X98df. Lowrance has already stopped production of them, and moved up to the X136df. I haven't even been able to find out what the new specs are on the thing. If they do what they have done in the past, it will have more pixels, but who knows what else. I thought about going elsewhere to get the X98, but even the online dealers are out of the X98. So, I guess I'll have to have the X136 when it gets here.
Lowrance updated their website in the last day or two and included the new units for 2004. The X136df will have 480X480 resolution. That is 50% more than the X98df. It looks like everytihing else is the same as the 98.
BTW it doesn't matter if your transducer is below the level of the bottom of the ice or not. At least with the units that I've used. I was at Fish Lake in '92 with 36 inches of ice. I can only get the 'ducer about 7 or 8 inches under the water, so the transducer was still almost 30 inches from the bottom of the hole, and I didn't have any trouble using my fishfinder.
Fishrmn
I've always put my X series finders on a Genz ice box. It has room for a battery, wires, and a place for the gimbal bracket. It looks like most of them come with an eyelet type of bracket for the Vexilar type of trancsducer, but they make a ball joint and rod for attatching other transducers. Everything in one package. No assembly required at the lake.
I had an X98df ordered at Sportsmans' Warehouse before Thanksgiving. They called me the day before turkey day to tell me that they couldn't get the X98df. Lowrance has already stopped production of them, and moved up to the X136df. I haven't even been able to find out what the new specs are on the thing. If they do what they have done in the past, it will have more pixels, but who knows what else. I thought about going elsewhere to get the X98, but even the online dealers are out of the X98. So, I guess I'll have to have the X136 when it gets here.
Lowrance updated their website in the last day or two and included the new units for 2004. The X136df will have 480X480 resolution. That is 50% more than the X98df. It looks like everytihing else is the same as the 98.
BTW it doesn't matter if your transducer is below the level of the bottom of the ice or not. At least with the units that I've used. I was at Fish Lake in '92 with 36 inches of ice. I can only get the 'ducer about 7 or 8 inches under the water, so the transducer was still almost 30 inches from the bottom of the hole, and I didn't have any trouble using my fishfinder.
Fishrmn