Livescope vs. Livesight comparison video

[Sbp]

Have been a Lowrance user since God dug the river west of town. The Livescope is something that has caught my eye. Running 2 carbons now 9 & 12, have grown accustomed to how the HDS's are menu driven. Hoping someone who is familiar with Lowrance could shed some light as to how a Garmin's menu works.

Is it similiar to Lowrance or is it a whole new can of worms to work with? Will keep my carbons and ss3d but just don't want the "mechanics" of utilizing the Garmin (on the bow only) to be a hinderance with the way the HDS's work?

Hopefully, just utilizing the Livescope it would not need much of the operators attention in making changes. Just don't want it to be overwhelming and turn into a frustration with 2 different units.

Will definitely spend more time on THIS board catching up on what Garmin has to offer and how it can be utilized!


thanks...

The UI on Garmin is super simple. I’ve always had birds up to now and just installed an Ultra with LiveScope. I will not be buying another Hummingbird product. After running LiveScope two, yes just two times, I can honestly say it changes the way you fish. I’ve caught about 10 that are a direct result of seeing them first.

[LWINCHESTER2]

Is it similiar to Lowrance or is it a whole new can of worms to work with? Will keep my carbons and ss3d but just don't want the "mechanics" of utilizing the Garmin (on the bow only) to be a hinderance with the way the HDS's work?

Hopefully, just utilizing the Livescope it would not need much of the operators attention in making changes. Just don't want it to be overwhelming and turn into a frustration with 2 different units.

Piece of cake, expecially if all you have connected is LiveScope.
You can choose LiveScope Forward or LiveScope Down depending on the orientation of the transducer. The default is Auto so you can let it do that for you.

Once you have the LiveScope screen if you press MENU you'll see
Gain 0-100, Auto Low, Auto Medium, Auto High
Forward Range 5-750, Auto, Up, Down
Transmit On/Off
Depth Range 5-750, Auto, Up, Down
Pause Sonar
Sonar Setup

Under Sonar Setup you'll find
Appearance
Noise Reject
TVG
On-screen Control
Overlay Numbers
Installation

The best part is that once you are up and running, rarely do you mess with the settings. You just fish. It's not a system where you have to mess with the settings much. The Auto and defaults work very well. I do like the Forward Range on 70 ft, but you decide what range you want.

[drifter106]

thanks for the feedback people!! Since I posted I have found youtube videos that help explain the functions. With your responses it seems apparent that the learning curve can be overcome relatively easy.

[Chief Brody]

Please post some screenshots when you can, would really like to see some.
thanks,

Put some up in the image forum