Claytankozmo

Livescope on a trolling motor is something that makes more sense because you can point your trolling motor in the direction you want to see, and if you're using something like a talon you are good to go.

Where did they announce this? Too bad I just bought one... Edit: nevermind, it was literally yesterday they announced it.

Yup it seems completely pointless for me to do this in that case. Sure 2d isn't affected but why would I care if I have 2d in front of the boat and behind it? And if someone is going to buy a helix then they're going to get one with a transducer why just buy the control head? On top of the redundancy, you can't even hook up two mega transducers to one helix no matter what you do. They sell a switch but it's not compatible with mega. I wanted to have my back transducer levelled for when I'm traveling at 3-4mph and then switch to my trolling motor one when going slow but I can't even do that without unplugging and plugging something else in which is *** when you're using their cable tray. On top of all this, I'm sure it's just increasing the cost of these trolling motors. I couldn't buy a 112lb ulterra without it as much as I wanted to.

The new Minn Kota trolling motors come with mega down imaging built into the bottom. I bought one and I'm just confused with how exactly the down imaging would work when it's turning in all directions. From my understanding, down imaging is a thin slice of sonar directly down from your boat, so that targets are clearly separated and detail is increased. If a fish is sitting parallel to your down imaging slice the return will be much less that if it is lengthways like +. If you're moving onto a tree for example, if the motor turned while scanning it, would it completely morph the image and mess it up, or is there real time processing going on to nullify the effect of turning the motor? Probably a stupid question but.