It seems to me carrying a 12v battery defeats the purpose of going light. The battery is about 2/3’s of the weight of a flasher unit.
The battery is mounted in my clam flip over anyways.
I do pretty much the same thing usually with my portable power source. It has 13,000mAh and weighs 10oz. I just make sure that all of my accessories run off of microUSB.
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Does it have the option to carry additional batteries so you can swap them out?
No, that’s one thing I really hope they implement in the future, though. It only charges with microUSB. So even though I normally have a portable battery pack on the ice for my camera gear and cell phone anyway, I’d need to fish blind while the unit charges.
I would think one would have to get it below the ice to get the best results.
Unfortunately it doesn’t work under water. The reason why is that water is much denser than air. That surface reflects the bluetooth signal, and you will disconnect. It’s an unfortunate limitation of any such sonar. Heck, even my Sony action camera loses WiFi communication under water. I can look at the remote view on my smart phone until I stick the camera 1″ underwater, then it’s gone.
Cool, thanks for posting. I couldn’t find any information at all about the ice fishing flasher on the FishHunter website. It must be brand new. With the Deeper, you can choose between different cone angles, but the power is always on max. You can adjust the sensitivity as well.
The thing about all of these options is, they are all easily added with firmware and software updates, and competition will probably force each to adopt the best features currently available in the other. Probably the best way to test them would be a side-by-side comparison to compare the hardware capabilities. The Fishhunter is about 22% heavier and advertises a longer battery life, so it seems reasonable that they might have a similar or higher powered transducer.
Do you have one of the units?
40-45 fow on an bend in the River by Wheeler’s Point launch. 65lb braid, 3 oz no roll weights, 9-15″ leader made from main line, 4/0 octopus circle hooks, and nightcrawlers. Caught 25 between Friday and Saturday from the 4 of us. All fish were released. A couple were given to the DNR for tagging.
Good thing I checked then before I just went and fished! Dal, I’ll have to give some of those spots a try when I get out there. Thanks for the info. I’ll post a video review when I get a chance if it turns out being alright.
