Mud Line

[Dutch]

Thanks to both of you.  Please keep reporting.  I know almost nothing about that technology and Utube videos are very amateurish to say the least.  The way Humminbird usually delays releasing new stuff I have no idea when theirs will come out but I want to learn as much as I can to shorten my learning curve.

[curtisce]

got out yesterday,put in at cedar ridge. Had a friend with me who knows crappie on Stockton so thought with that and Livescope we would be in business. Went from spot to spot finding very little. Ventured up past Turkey Cree but the water was quite stained. didn't see much in the way of bait either. headed back towards CR still not finding anything. Got in the channel and cruosed along wathching the Humminbird. strated seeing bait so we stopped. 48 fow with bait starting around 35 to close to the bottom. Didn't take long and we were catching shorts. Livescope was great because you could follow the bait and stay on top of them. They were moving up the channel slowly and we stayed with them. Then the livescope started flickering then it quit. Continued to fish with 2D but often had to hunt for the baitwhen they went out of our 2d cone. Then we noticed the trolling motor was losing power. we'd been out for several hours with a modest wind to hold in plus my batteries are on their 4th season. Decided to head out unfortunately my electronics had sapped my starting battery which was only a seaon old. Luckily the wind was blowing us towards cedar ridge. we drifted to the point of the cove and then limped across the cove to the lauch with the trolling motor. Had it at near full power and we were barely making progress. Made it back though had 7 keeper crappie out of probably 40 total. Went out for 2 new trolling batteries and a group 31 AMG starting battery which will hopefully handlle the electronics

[Dutch]

2 hours ago, curtisce said:

got out yesterday,put in at cedar ridge. Had a friend with me who knows crappie on Stockton so thought with that and Livescope we would be in business. Went from spot to spot finding very little. Ventured up past Turkey Cree but the water was quite stained. didn't see much in the way of bait either. headed back towards CR still not finding anything. Got in the channel and cruosed along wathching the Humminbird. strated seeing bait so we stopped. 48 fow with bait starting around 35 to close to the bottom. Didn't take long and we were catching shorts. Livescope was great because you could follow the bait and stay on top of them. They were moving up the channel slowly and we stayed with them. Then the livescope started flickering then it quit. Continued to fish with 2D but often had to hunt for the baitwhen they went out of our 2d cone. Then we noticed the trolling motor was losing power. we'd been out for several hours with a modest wind to hold in plus my batteries are on their 4th season. Decided to head out unfortunately my electronics had sapped my starting battery which was only a seaon old. Luckily the wind was blowing us towards cedar ridge. we drifted to the point of the cove and then limped across the cove to the lauch with the trolling motor. Had it at near full power and we were barely making progress. Made it back though had 7 keeper crappie out of probably 40 total. Went out for 2 new trolling batteries and a group 31 AMG starting battery which will hopefully handlle the electronics

Glad you had some success with live scope.  Your live scope issue may have been a voltage drop in your battery.  Which AGM did you get for a cranker?  What are the cca and rc ratings?

[MrGiggles]

On 2/1/2021 at 3:07 PM, Dutch said:

Thanks to both of you.  Please keep reporting.  I know almost nothing about that technology and Utube videos are very amateurish to say the least.  The way Humminbird usually delays releasing new stuff I have no idea when theirs will come out but I want to learn as much as I can to shorten my learning curve.

Jay Siemens has some good videos on Livescope.

From what I've been hearing, Megalive won't be out until 2022.

[straw hat]

AGMs are great You may not believe this but I have a big AGM (110 amp hour) that has run the main motor in my pontoon now for over 12 years. I also have two other 31 AGMs that I use for my trolling motor and small electronics and they are both over 6 years old. I love them.

[curtisce]

The starting battery is 800 cca 105Ah  Glad to hear from @straw hat that he has had good success with AMG. Hope mine outlive my lead sealed which actually held up quite well. forecast  says woon't be getting out next week.

[Dutch]

49 minutes ago, curtisce said:

The starting battery is 800 cca 105Ah  Glad to hear from @straw hat that he has had good success with AMG. Hope mine outlive my lead sealed which actually held up quite well. forecast  says woon't be getting out next week.

You may find, like I did, that your electronics will kill your cranking battery in a few short hours.  Today’s electronics can be juice hogs.  I went through several crankers trying to figure what to do.  I have a dedicated AGM battery with 2 Humminbird Solix units on.  That are killing a battery grave yard dead in less than a year.

If you have a setting on your sonar unit that will show supply volts, I recommend that you set it to show so you can keep an eye on your cranking battery’s state of charge so that you can avoid being stranded.

[curtisce]

I hope this battery will last awhile. On youtube I've seen an adapter for a 20v dewalt battery pack that some are using just to power the livescope black box. I emailed Dakota lithium battery and they recommened a 54ah lithium to power the electronics. It was about $400 plus another $100 for a charger.

[oghfm]

58 minutes ago, curtisce said:

I hope this battery will last awhile. On youtube I've seen an adapter for a 20v dewalt battery pack that some are using just to power the livescope black box. I emailed Dakota lithium battery and they recommened a 54ah lithium to power the electronics. It was about $400 plus another $100 for a charger.

I've run agm batteries since the late 90's , the only advantage I see in the lithium is weight.  Ran lawn mower size agm's on my trolling motors, and have a 18 ah agm running my livescope, both the gls 10 and the 73 cv, should run it 16-18 hrs before recharge, but usually recharge after about 8 as I have a 4 hr butt.  The agm's I have had lasted 8-10 years on average.  I modeled my live scope bundle after the Fle Fly guy, except the pole is attached to a RAM mount.  Zero issues so far.