Humminbird HDR 600 Depthsounder

I don't know about you, but I always get a little queasy boating in a new lake, especially when it has a slalom course which is typically located quite close to shore. The solution, the stylish, highly affordable, easy to install, Humminbird HDR 600 in-dash depthsounder.

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Everthing mounts on the inside of the hull - and with no holes. It's really a nice system.

-Keith

I have a uniden deep sounder that is still in the box waiting for installation. I plan to install the display unit where the hour meter is currently located. My hour meter and tach both broke within a week or two of each other, so I replace the tach with a unit that has the hour meter in the bottom of the tach and thus the seperate hour meter would be redundant. Now I have room for the depth sounder without drilling an extra hole.

Just bought the Acme 540 and the Humminbird 600 for my 1973 CC Mustang. The Acme 540 made my old prop look like it should be hanging in an antique shop. I had to get to the lake yesterday to test them out.

As Keith's article says...WOW. I couldn't be happier with both. Huge difference in acceleration. It totally throws your head back between 10-30 miles an hour. It is awesome. It definitely feels like much more horsepower. This was definitely the place to put money in the boat. It is absolutely impressive.

The depth finder worked great. Vince at SKIDIM gave me a tip of setting it on a ziplock bag full of water to test location.

Any know about the Hummingbird temp gauge from the 99 era Air's? I have one with a transducer mounted on the transom, is there a humminbird unit that does both temp and depth? Can I use the existing transducer for the depth finder? I am hoping to not have to remove the temp. gauge, or being able to have a "combo" unit.

thanks,
Jack

kilowake66, I just purchased a Hum 600 for my 1966 Mustang. In the box, there was a 2 part epoxy packet and instructions on it's use. In reading the instructions, they stated that the epoxy was a special slow cure type and not to use normal 2 part epoxy that can be purchased at local hardware/home centers. It appears that the slow cure is need to insure that all the air bubbles get pushed out, which will interfere with the transducer pickup unit.

I hope to install it as soon as I get the boat out of storage in mid April. From looking at the images in Keith's article, I was also unable to identify the actual transducer unit. I was going to ask Keith if he could post a better/additional image. From Keith's article and his 'computized red line' on the image, I can only assume that if the water pickup is on the startboard side of boat, you should install the transducer pickup unit on the opposite (port) side but at the same distance from the keel and the bow as the water pickup.

I am looking forward to using the depthfinder this season (my second ever boating season), as the lake I boat on is fairly shallow. At least 2 times last year, the boat got too close to different shallow areas, and I could feel the prop churning up the lank sand/mud.

I installed one of these on my '83 just below the hour meter. Installation was painless and complete in less than 90 minutes. Unit works well but the alarm can be a pain during launching..........

Keith, I just installed the Hummingbird 600 this weekend. Worked like a top. I even removed the in dash clock and didn't have to drill at all. You had a great reccomendation. Just a reminder to others: be sure and duck tape the transducer and make a couple trial runs before securing with epoxy..

The above link seems to take you to a review of the Cipa mirror. Not the Depth sounder.

keith, can this be mounted to the inside of a wooden hull?