Alright now I have a better idea of everything. I was wondering whenever I do get the lowrance and MG all hooked up with nmea and pinpoint gps kits how will I switch between viewing what the sonar sees with transducer on the bow from the trolling motor and then whenever the trolling motor isn’t in the water being able to view the 3 in 1 transducer that’s on the back of the boat. Hopefully that makes sense

My question is can you use down imaging on your lowrance whenever it’s paired with the xi3 motorguide or do you only get the 2d sonar feature. I’m thinking about just going the humminbird/minn kota route so I can get all of the features out of the fish finder if I can’t get down imaging with the lowrance and MG.

I was curious about would my trolling motor need to be compatible with my fish finder to use spot lock