New Furuno 585 FF

[DOGHOUSE26]

Well today I retired my old 582 CRT Fishfinder with a new 585 unit; the older units were so large they had to be mounted in a cabinet or on the bridge deck as mine was. Now the newer models are so compact and thin you can mount them on top of the dash if you wish but I'm keeping mine down low for now to keep it out of the elements. The screen is just about the same size although much brighter (10,000 hours will do that to ya); it has a little more power output (1000 watts vs. 600); but most of all it has better sensing ability and the white line marker which I hope will help me find those big barn doors laying on the bottom! I previously replaced my old transducer with a new Airmar B260 1K unit with the high speed fairing block when I replaced the fuel tank last fall; we'll see if this combo increases the kill ratio on the DOGHOUSE. I found alot of fish and hotspots with that old 582 and it was pretty hard to cut the power cable and pull off the mounting bracket, I seriously considered putting the new unit on the other side of the bridge (where my old RADAR used to be on the bridge deck too but the new 1722 unit is up on the dash) and installing a transducer switch so I could use one or the other. Oh well, she won't be going in the attic just yet; I'll give the new unit 4-5 rockcod trips to get comfortable before I put her away for good. Does anyone have experence with the 585 and how do you like it? I have a newer Furuno GP 7000 on my 18' Bayrunner and the sounder portion works real well although I don't have alot of time running with it. The GPS side of the unit is a little harder to navigate through since I'm used to my Garmin 2010 on the DOGHOUSE which seems much easier to use.

[Honeygirl]

Jeff, I also had the 582CRT an loved it. Till it fell out of the overhead in my boat and crashed into 100 pieces on the way to the albacore grounds 2years ago. That depth finder put a lot of seabass on my boat even before I owned the boat. I bought the 582L after that. It was the best model at the time when I bought it. I have a 1000kwt transducer and I like it a lot. I don't use the white line much but From what I hear it works great. The furuno guys have high remarks for the 582L and at the fred hall show they said the 585 was even better. I am also going to upgrade all my electronics this year. I'm going with the new 3D system from furuno. I wanted to keep my 582L but the furuno guy stated I couldn't run them both at once unless I was in 200kw and I would sill get interference. Let me know how you like the unit after you use it a bit. Joe

[NoSlack]

I've had the 582L since they came out and never played around with the white line function. If I'm going to spend all day up top driving around the bounce ball crew, I might as well learn how to use that feature. Who knows, it might help me catch a few more big halibut.

Mike

[Nomad]

I'm looking at the Navnet 3D as well. They are suggesting using the Airmar SS164 1kw tilted element transducer as it doesn't require the large fairing block. Anybody have any input on this transducer? Joe, which unit are you going with (8.4 - 12.1?) and where are you planning to mount it?

[Honeygirl]

12.1, I am going to mount them in the hold above. I am going with 2 units. next to ecahother.

[DOGHOUSE26]

what's an ecahother?

[Nomad]

Its either "each other" or some kind of high tech white seabass locator

[Nomad]

Joe - are you going with a new transducer? I'm looking at the 12.1 too but hung up on what ducer to get.

[noquestion25]

Do you need any other equipment to get the 1000 watts out of the unit. Which transducer will work best Furuno or Airmar.

[DOGHOUSE26]

Do you need any other equipment to get the 1000 watts out of the unit. Which transducer will work best Furuno or Airmar.

What unit are you referring to?

On my Furuno GP7000 and on the 585, there is a menu prompt for either 600 or 1000 watt output. You can use a 1000 watt transducer on a 600 watt sounder but you can't use a 600 watt ducer with a 1000 watt sounder

As far as transducers go, Airmar is the manufacturer for most if not all of Furuno's transducers.