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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: fishreed on July 03, 2019, 10:45:13 AM
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This is for RNvinc or anybody who can tell me the answer I have a perfectly good 798SI head unit with a badly cracked SI transducer given to me from a guy I installed a new HElix 7 Gen2 SI on his boat. I have an extra quadrabeam transducer and a dual beam 83/200 with a dual cord laying around I will never use again. Another friend of mine, who can't afford a new HELIX unit on his boat to replace a 80s Matrix POS, has a need for this 798SI unit as I being nice guy, is going to hook him up with the 798SI at no charge. IS it possible to use dual beam transducer cord and hook up a "quadrabeam" transducer AND a dual beam transducer 83/200 to this 798SI? Yes I upgraded the software and this 798SI only has 300 hours on it. I know it can be done with a regular SI transducer and a 83/200 dual beam but I don't know if it can be done with the older Quadrabeam transducer. Somebody will know here.
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Quadra beam was an xducer option thru many unit models and software versions ...
Power on the unit and look for a "Quadrabeam" selection choice in the Connected Transducer options under the Sonar tab ...
The Quadrabeam beam xducer already has 83/200kHz 2d so it would be unnecessary to also connect a Dual Beam with a Y cable ...
Is there a tag on the Y cable to indicate what it is ...??
Rickie
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It is definitely possible to use the Dual Beam xducer on the 798 by changing the Connected Transducer selection to Dual Beam (or HB 83/200kHz in some software versions) ...
Rickie
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Quadra beam was an xducer option thru many unit models and software versions ...
Power on the unit and look for a "Quadrabeam" selection choice in the Connected Transducer options under the Sonar tab ...
The Quadrabeam beam xducer already has 83/200kHz 2d so it would be unnecessary to also connect a Dual Beam with a Y cable ...
Is there a tag on the Y cable to indicate what it is ...??
Rickie
You answered my question Rickie, That's what I thought too. I didn't know if it had 83khz or not unlike a true SI transducer which synthesizes the 83khz beam.
Reed