I thinking of mounting my thru hull transducer so it faces slightly forward rather than straight down. With transducer straight down you are already over and past the target whereas if it is just a few degrees forward you are seeing the target coming.
Thoughts?
I would think the angle would need to be pretty extreme (alot more than a few degrees) to get it to be valuable, then i’d start wondering about getting some turbulence interference? Obviously the deeper the water the better….
Your depth readings would be off, the more you angle it the more it would effect it.
By how much I don’t know.
I also answered you on WC, but my thoughts are in agreement with above. I also said that angling it to shoot forward, would cause the back of the sonar cone to intersect the bottom first and therefore hide everything you wanted to see even further in the 2D sonar “dead zone”. Also, your xducer would be plowing the water instead of skimming, at speeds
You’re tilting at windmills (wasting time & effort). Google the speed of sound in water.
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