Friday, September 09, 2005

Fish Finder – Get the right price performance Fish Finder or GPS Fish Finder – Part One

Fish finder and GPS fish finder come in many flavors. Make sure you know your options. In part two I will review two more important features, power and depth capabilities.

Fish finders and combination, or Combo GPS Fish Finders come are designed to meet certain needs by their manufacturer. There are five primary features that all fish finders have that you should review before you make your purchase. We have already reviewed the transducer selection process, so the next two blogs will focus on the other four features.

Display Pixels
Generally speaking, the more pixels on a display screen the better. The exception to the rule is color. If you are in the market for a color finder you will find that a 5-inch screen with a colored screen will be more expensive and have fewer pixels than a monochrome LCD unit will. The color screen is still a better choice (if you have the bucks to spend on it) because it offers such great separation and anti-glare capabilities.

A display with 128x128 pixels will be grainy and will not offer much detail whereas a 480x480 pixel display will offer great resolution and smooth contours on the screen.


Screen Size
The larger the screen, the more expensive and the easier the screen is to see. This is especially important with Combination GPS Fish Finders because you will want to split the screen for viewing.

In the next blog I will review the other two primary features, power and, depth in part two.

Fish finder and Combo Emulators
You can download and run fish finder and combo unit emulators on your PC

GPS Chart-plotter Mapping
Great resourse at Garmin for learning about chart-plotting and GPS

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