Will the tranducer work well if it's in the hull of a kayak and not in water? If it's not touching the water does it still give a temperature reading?
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My son mounted the transducer inside his kayak and says it works the same as if in the water.
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The transducer is designed to be in the water near the surface and although others said they had mounted them inside kayaks in "marine goop" I'm not sure readings are accurate.......it's not designed for through hull sounding. Not sure if it'll give a temp reading out of the water.....a simple and inexpensive pool thermometer would do the trick.
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It works fine in the hull of my kayak. Mounted it in marine goop. It does give the temperature but of the hull not the actual water temp. I imagine it is close though
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Yes it will work. I mounted my transducer through the hull using duct seal (do a google search on duct seal and transd mounting). There are a few different methods but I take a balled up amount of duct seal, make a pancake and place the ducer right on it leaving about a 1/8 to 1/4 between it and the hull. I get pretty accurate readings on depth and temperature is off by 1 - 2 degrees.
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I bought this as a birthday gift for my husband who uses it on his johnboat. He says you have to have the transducer in the water in order for it to get a read. Hope that helps!
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I shoot through the hull of a kayak. Is the underside if the deck in constant contact with the water? If there is any air gap it will not work. Please also more that this "track plotter" is not the same as a regular chart plotter. It will show you where you have been, but will NOT let you select a waypoint to navigate to. I bought it and did not attempt to install for a few months due to shoulder immobility post surgery. Then I found this out when not was too late to return it.
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I purchased this transducer to use for ice fishing and it works great.I have a Garmin 500 and it does tell the water temperature. It is the sane as the original and should work for your model.
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It is a temperature sensor only, it reads the temperature of the water flowing through the pluming. It tells the solar or the remote system what the temperature the water is.
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Do you know what a transducer is? Not trying to be sarcastic, but f you knew what it was you would know that it cannot have turbulence like a propeller would make. It also has to be hard wired to the display unit. So answer is no, it has to be mounted to a transom or if it's a thru hull, to the hull.
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No, but if you put it in something watertight it should still work as long as the ambient tempertaure inside the container is the same as the outside. Not certain how that would effect how quickly the temperature in the container would change to track the outside ( of the container) ambient temperature. It is just a simple battery powered temperature sensor
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The transducer is an in-hull transducer. I made a pond from electricians putty and filled it with water -works great. I first glued it to inside hull but had to move it so went with forming pond.
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Yes I regularly use it to regulate temperature in a kegarator. I submerge the probe in a cup of water to get a more accurate temperature read out and haven't had any problems.
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The transducer I bought had speed and temperature along with the transducer. You probably got the one without the speed and temperature.
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My son bought this and its worked well. As far as I could tell it can read very high temps however if you know that something is obviously not as hot as its reading I would return it. Maybe it's defective.
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In your situation I think you may have to mount the transducer on some kind of pole that you could clamp to the transom unless the transom sits down into the water deep enough - you may want to check with a Zodiac dealer for their recommendation as they may have the experience and knowledge -good luck!
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Hi Letha,We use the thermometer to measure the lake temperature off our boat. It seems to work fine- I'm sure it would be great on a dock!
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The transducer does not have to be permanently fixed to the transom. We have attached the transducer to a 1" x 4" x 6' plank and clamped it to the railing on an hose boat, it works just fine. Be sure to submurge past the pontoons or boat bottom. You will not get a good reading otherwise.
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My daughter and I just tried flipping the turtle upside down and running it under water and as long as the area where the sensor fills up it will read the temp. You can just flip it over, since you'd be holding it anyways, and read what it says.
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it's been excellent as a fish finder. I use it on my kayak. on board or hidden inside the hull. I purchased mine upon watching this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft8DNCgJuGM
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Yes, this thermometer can read the temperature of water. It can measure from 300 degrees Fahrenheit down to 58 degrees below zero.
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Yes, but understand, it only gives you the water temp for the depth it floats at. The lake will have varying temps depending on the different depths where you suspend the thermometer.