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  3. Forum Question

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    Usually it is because someone has not paid attention to the rules. If a post starts to go in a combative direction it also will be removed.If we get valid complaints we will also remove it. Things are decided on a case by case as they apply to the rules.

     

    Anyone who participates here on the forum has read and agreed to what our rules are if after you have decided that this is a great place but you don't like or don't want to abide by the rules it is usually a fast road to trouble. The moderators/owners have though long and worked hard on the formula that makes this board operate smoothly. After 10 plus years running the members have voted and we have one the best board on the internet IMHO.

     

    My mistake thanks for the correction folks

     

     

    Art

  19. Carburator Sync tool

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    Talked with Slowpoke and DanD today and it was suggested that you can build one. As soon as I track down some metric barbed fittings I should be good to go!

     

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    Don't forget the inline restricter between the carburetors pulse hose and the liquid. If you have to much suction then they will draw the fluid into the carb and will pulse as the valves open and close.

     

    Art

  20. Humminbirds response to a problem

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    Don't get me wrong GPS has lots of uses... It has the ability to get you back to an area that you visited last season and forgot that you caught fish their. It will allow you to troll the same line that you did repeating each pass thru the point you found. It allows you to plot a circuit to fish thru the day. What it can't do is get you to the pinpoint area due to physics. You are located by the triangulation of your position from space from up to 9 points. The closer or less amount of points the less accurate it is. The bright side is they can get you within 10ft most of the time all for around $500.00 with no monthly fee. What unit is best is up to what unit you read comfortable. I personalty after reading what does what and spending long hours on the water found that Lowrance reads the way that I understand the information and the controls it has to offer. It will take long hours of reading the information on the screen on the water and looking at the manual before you will even start to comprehend all of the features the little black box offers. To call the information that it does give you valueless is incorrect it is actually invaluable to making a flat sheet of water rich with navigation aids, past memories, and the ability to mark it anytime you want.

     

     

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  21. Humminbirds response to a problem

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    Most of the GPS in a car have a program edit that will not let it read anything but 0 below 2 MPH or Metric Equal. GPS is a wonderful thing but to get the accuracy that people want would mean a really expensive receiver unit. To keep the costs down they sacrifice certain reality information with software parameters. Your Auto GPS does not really track your car on a map so accurate that it doesn't leave the road. They have a parameter that says chose the closest road and keep the car on their even if the GPS is off by X feet. The depth finder you use does not really read 10 ft 3 inches it reads 10ft going to 11ft but they have decided to relay that information to you as 10ft plus inches till it is 11ft etc. The best way to find your trolling speed is mechanical not electronic's your accuracy fluctuates with how many satellites are up their and what the angle of them are in relation to each other. You can make a mechanical trolling meter very easily using a string with a cylinder weight. hang it on a stick in the water and troll at the speed you want and check the angle of deflection from 6 o clock. Get a bite then mark it as the deflection and you can reset the boat at the same speed.

     

     

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  22. Humminbirds response to a problem

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    The external antenna being the answer indicates the one on the unit is not powerful enough to be accurate. I have 2 units one is internal and the other an external and the external does mark a little more accurately. The degree of accuracy on all of the units are within 20 ft usually. The dirty little secret between all of the units is the program of the units are told to read the nearest water. The GPS units for the car are also told to hold in the lines of the roads or nearest one possible. So basically if their units can't do what you ask no amount of complaining will make it exceed it's design capacity. The antenna while extra in cost is separate from the unit and increases it's designed capacity to what you want. Personally you will at best get to within 10ft of the actual mark. I have seen people who have a false belief that they can track back a route and miss the shoals up North after dark. It is just a game of Russian Roulette for sure.

     

     

     

     

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