tilted element transducer

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has anyone used a tilted element through-hull transducer?

The one I'm looking at is a bronze one made by Airmar. They flush-mount to the hull without a fairing block, and the element tilts inside the unit to compensate for the deadrise.

Wondering if anyone has had any positive or negative experience with these, and why everyone doesn't buy these instead of going with the whole fairing block thing?

Thanks.

Orcbait
 
I was using a fairing block, which was installed on the stbd side, about 6 ft. ahead of the shaft tunnel. I had problems attaining rated speed. Several techs with racing boat experience advised me that the fairing block may not have been installed properly (i.e. using laser for proper alignment), thus causing turbulence at the stbd prop. I had it removed and replaced with the Airmar tilted element xducer last summer. Top speed increased 6 mph.
 
People on one of the other boards I read have been having very good success with the B60. Numerous owners and electronics riggers have been praising and recommending it. It has been getting reports of easy installation, good fishfinder performance and of holding the bottom to speeds of 45 mph.

The B60 works well on lots of boats, but was introduced for trailered boats. A fairing can get hung up or damaged by trailer bunks; the B60's low profile can sit on a bunk without problem. The B60 uses the same element as the B744V, B117, P319, P79, and a couple others so the performance should be roughly equal. Some reasons choose a faired model vs. low profile: you want paddle wheel speed (B744V); you want the slight performance edge a faired model can provide; you want a higher-powered 1kW unit (B258, B260).

Overall, I'd say the B60 tilted element units are pretty compelling.
 
If I recall, when I was looking they weren't available with "temp", maybe that's changed?
 
How long ago were you looking? The B60 has temp now.

Airmar does customize tranducers per OEM needs (Garmin, Raymarine, etc), so it's possible a particular OEM elected not to support temp.
 
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