05-04-2010, 03:29 AM
[quote flygoddess]
Michael, I would love to hear more about the color as that is the one I am looking at.[/quote]
Ask away... what do you want to know?
The screen is just plain brighter and clearer, especially in bright sunlight. It's easier to pick out fish when they are near cover... the fish symbols show up as blue fish shapes, and weeds and structure show in shades of red & orange and yellow and black.
The overall display is contrastier than the greyscale too, the background is whiter and the blacks blacker.
I'll be glad to answer any questions if I can.
Yes, battery consumption of AA alkalines is much faster than the greyscale models @ 16 hours versus 30 hours for the 110/120/130. I posted elsewhere about my solution to that, I am using AA Eveready Ultimate Lithium cells instead, which should last probably 4 times as long and I bought them for $2.49 per 4 pack on Amazon, including shipping 3 4 packs was only about $14. That's two changes of all batteries (it uses 6 AA cells at a time). The battery consumption thing is just not that big a cost compared to everything else we blow money on.
The 130 and 140 also have the telescoping transducer shaft that can go from 24" to 40", where the others only go down 24". On some 'toons 24" might not be enough, depending on how you mount the unit.
The Cabela's Fishin' Buddy Holster is a joke though. Crappy strap arrangement where you have to set it, try it for length, set it again, not like the "thread the buckle and pull" strap on the Scotty rod holder and anchor davit. And even if the strap is real tight (I put it on when the tube is not topped off yet and then top the tube off to get it real tight), it wobbles like crazy because the strap only touches the tube the FF goes through in a small area. I am going to try threading a second strap through it to hopefully stabilize it. The Humminbird float tube adapter looks much better designed except it only has a 36" strap... which is way short of being able to get around the 16" tubes on my Outlaw Rampage. I guess it's possible to extend the strap some way, but for the $29.95 cost of the simple device you shouldn't have to.
I'm glad I bought the color model (www.thenerds.net had it for $224) and would do it again in a heartbeat.
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Michael, I would love to hear more about the color as that is the one I am looking at.[/quote]
Ask away... what do you want to know?
The screen is just plain brighter and clearer, especially in bright sunlight. It's easier to pick out fish when they are near cover... the fish symbols show up as blue fish shapes, and weeds and structure show in shades of red & orange and yellow and black.
The overall display is contrastier than the greyscale too, the background is whiter and the blacks blacker.
I'll be glad to answer any questions if I can.
Yes, battery consumption of AA alkalines is much faster than the greyscale models @ 16 hours versus 30 hours for the 110/120/130. I posted elsewhere about my solution to that, I am using AA Eveready Ultimate Lithium cells instead, which should last probably 4 times as long and I bought them for $2.49 per 4 pack on Amazon, including shipping 3 4 packs was only about $14. That's two changes of all batteries (it uses 6 AA cells at a time). The battery consumption thing is just not that big a cost compared to everything else we blow money on.
The 130 and 140 also have the telescoping transducer shaft that can go from 24" to 40", where the others only go down 24". On some 'toons 24" might not be enough, depending on how you mount the unit.
The Cabela's Fishin' Buddy Holster is a joke though. Crappy strap arrangement where you have to set it, try it for length, set it again, not like the "thread the buckle and pull" strap on the Scotty rod holder and anchor davit. And even if the strap is real tight (I put it on when the tube is not topped off yet and then top the tube off to get it real tight), it wobbles like crazy because the strap only touches the tube the FF goes through in a small area. I am going to try threading a second strap through it to hopefully stabilize it. The Humminbird float tube adapter looks much better designed except it only has a 36" strap... which is way short of being able to get around the 16" tubes on my Outlaw Rampage. I guess it's possible to extend the strap some way, but for the $29.95 cost of the simple device you shouldn't have to.
I'm glad I bought the color model (www.thenerds.net had it for $224) and would do it again in a heartbeat.
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