Vexilar Edage 3 questions on transducers

I understand they have 2 transducers. Do they have a tendancy to give you a roostertail and how far apart do you need to mount?

I mounted mine right next to each other. No rooster tail, but I made sure that the points of the transducers were as close to the bottom edge of the traducer board that I could get – in other words no gap.

I have a small rooster tail with my Edge 2 model, but I may have them mounted wrong.

The manual for the Edge 3 advises mounting them as close together as possible.

Here is the manual if you don’t have yours handy.

http://www.vexilar.com/pages/support/pdf/vexilar_edge3_manual.pdf

Good luck!

Sully

Rooster tails are cool.

I purchased an Edge 3 this past summer. The transducers are difficult to mount and set up. I found I needed to play around with them a lot to find the balance between getting no rooster tail and good high speed performance. I ended up with a slight rooster tail on my Lund. Really no worse than I had with Lowrance.
I have them about 2 inches apart. Vexilar has a installation video on their website but I found some parts of the video deceiving, especially the downward angle on the rear of the transducer. The instructions say 2 to 5 degrees but if you were to follow the video, which I initially did, the angle is much steeper than that. After I foloowed the video, you needed a rainsuit at the back of my tiller boat from the rooster tail! Use the attached instruction as your guide, not the video. http://www.vexilar.com/pages/support/support_tips/article_002.html
The transducer mounting is more difficult than a Lowrance, but once done, the Edge 3 is simply fantastic, I couldn’t be happier with it!

Initially I had a huge rooster with my Vex Edge 2. Most likely similar dual ducer setup. I mounted them to a plastic board so I didn’t have to worry about all those holes in the hull. I had to raise them significantly a little at a time over a half dozen trips before my shower stopped. It sprayed so much water on the motor it was leaking into the cowling! I agree that there is a fine line in high speed performance and a shower. Once I got it setup right it works great. I love that unit!

Good Luck,

Ferny.