Vex transducer question.

Whats the difference with the proview and the newer broadband transducers. I bought the unit with the preview but kick my self for not researching the broadband one.

In theory, there is not much. It is just the way you adjust the cone angle. The older preview you increase gain and widens the cone. New broadband you have buttons to widen or narrow the cone. To put it simply.

You need an FLX-30 to use the broadband transducer. Not even sure if they sell the broadband transducer separately yet.

Yep, you need the 30 for the bb transducer. The 30 with the broad band ducer has more cone angle and power adjustments than the 28 with a pro view.

Awesome, easy answer. Thanks

Did you open the box yet?

Here’s my thoughts on the 28 vs 30.

The 30 gives you the ability to dial in some unusual conditions like shallow basin fishing where you might want a wide cone angle and lower power in shallow water. Or maybe over a school of suspended crappies where you want to cancel out some of the fish out on the outer edges of the cone.

I think it’ll also give you some better refinement in super deep water like 100’+. It has an 18’ zoom in addition to only the 12’ and 6’ with the 28.

The only other benefit you get is that you can select any depth manually. A slight issue with the 28 is that you can only select manual depth up to 50’. Over that it must be in auto-depth mode. On superior mine has the issue of reading the surface clutter in 100’+ as bottom in the top 5’. It can be really frustrating that you can’t send the depth range manually.

Vexilar has told me they can program my unit to be fully manual which would disable the auto range for free. I’ve been meaning to do this but haven’t done it yet.