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Topic: Lowrance FF on an OK Ultra 4.7?  (Read 4937 times)

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There is a transducer install kit for the Ultra, but it appears to only work with Humminbird transducers.
Has anybody installed a Lowrance transducer on an Ultra?

I see the Lowrance transducer scupper kit, but I'm not sure if it would work in the Ultra's fancy transducer hole (it's not a regular scupper hole).
Here's the Lowrance scupper kit: http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=35509.0

Thanks guys!
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Right on, Thanks Mike!
Now I gotta track down Eric and ask him how he got the transom bracket to stay inside the scupper hole. It looks like it is screwed in?
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Right on, Thanks Mike!
Now I gotta track down Eric and ask him how he got the transom bracket to stay inside the scupper hole. It looks like it is screwed in?

There are molded in nuts in the 'ducer hole.  At least there used to be.  Flip it over and take a look!

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If for some reason they stoped putting in the threaded inserts.Heres wipeouts setup without the threaded inserts.
http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=48437.msg538599#msg538599


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I thought I saw an article where someone used a 'J' hook but I didn't see it on Eric's.


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I don't think mine had nuts (hee hee).  If I remember,  near the water just above the transducer it protrudes a little bit,  it gets skinnier right there and the plastic washer and nut that came with the HB transducer kit screw down onto the bolt that attached to the transducer.  http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&docid=m5I1YW7g1pAXgM&tbnid=pY5vK6eRzxejIM:&ved=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstore.oceankayak.com%2Fproducts%2F479766%2FUltra_Transducer_Kit&ei=-8M8UsC1E-TAigL7z4D4AQ&psig=AFQjCNGhAIfH9ZkN9vn9JeZTI6n_yzM1vg&ust=1379800443368999


It was easy at the time but then again it was made for that HB.   There was something I wanter to add about cable routing but I can't remember what it was.  I do know that the pivot tilt of the hatch eventually lead to the battery wire breaking.  It took me a long time to trouble shoot that break.  I bought a new unit and when it did not work with the existing wiring a light went off in my head.

Now I remember,  the transducer cable is easily stuffed into the the transducer skupper but there is an issue with getting power.  I went originally though the front of the transducer scupper and into the front hatch area and then back into the compartment below the FF.   Now I just run it into the front compartment and leave the battery sitting on top of the pool noodles. If I had to do it again,  I would have tried running the battery line into the storage compartment below the FF and let the gasket mold around it.

Don't but the rod tube.  Really hard to get rods in and out,  almost impossible with a reel on the rod.
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Great info Eric--thanks!

Fwiw there aren't any well nuts in the transducer scupper guys.
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Great info Eric--thanks!

Fwiw there aren't any well nuts in the transducer scupper guys.
hmm then check the second link I gave ya. It's a predator same scupper no molded in threaded inserts.


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Fwiw there aren't any well nuts in the transducer scupper guys.

Yeah, I checked mine too.  None there.  They must be on the 4.3.

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I ran the power cable to the head from the storage area. Drilling a hole from the storage area into the interior of the hull space . Then up out of the deck just forward of the wiring tube for the hatch cover. Like Yakhopper I drilled the hole in the top of the deck just big enough to have to stretch the cable housing in order to feed it through the deck. Waterproof and no goop or sealant needed.
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The guys have already directed you to my link; Ill add it is in ther rock solid.  There is now wobbling around at all.  It's holding up great!
Kenny


 

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