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How To Select a Sonar Transducer?

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To be honest, the transducer is the heart of the fishfinder systems which changes the electrical pulses into sound waves or the acoustic energy and then back again. It is generally a device which sends sound waves and then receives its echoes. So, you can say that the fishfinder comprehends whatever is below the surface of the water.  Which Transducer mounting style you must choose for your boat?  Thru hull:   It is the threaded bronze, stainless steel, nylon which passes via a hole at the bottom of the hull. There are various choices of styles like the external football-shaped head with flow of water smoothed with the fairing block which also corrects the deadrise or the sideways slope of the hull. There are round mushroom head thru-hulls that are either ways, flush mounted or semi-flush. Most of them are challenging to install but are likely to provide you the best signal qualities. The displacement powers and the sailboats basically use thru-hulls.  ...