Elite 5m – mistake?

  • muskyman20
    Posts: 35
    January 3, 2012 at 2:13 am #1306983

    while browsing ebay the other day i came across a dealer selling brand new lowrance elite 5s, for $350. since the screen on my lms 527 decided to fail last season i bought one to replace this unit on my bow. turns out i didnt read well enough and the unit is an Elite 5m which is a gps chartplotter only and i wanted a sonar/gps combo. i see there are plugs for a transducer on the back so can this unit be upgraded to sonar as well or am i just S.O.L? please help!

    hisser
    Chatfield, Mn
    Posts: 158
    January 3, 2012 at 12:02 pm #1023792

    I am pretty sure you can network that unit to a sonar unit via an ethernet cable and share the sonars transducer. Would doubt there is an update to change your unit to a standalone sonar.

    muskyman20
    Posts: 35
    January 3, 2012 at 8:59 pm #1024037

    im not sure why the unit even has the transducer port if it is just a gps unit? doesnt a transducer just read depth/temp?

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