I just saw a post on Fakebook claiming that using a dedicated 16V Lithium battery for your fishing electronics would provide the following:
- Improved Clarity
- Improved Depth
- Improved Definition
- Improved Brightness
- 20% to 30% better efficiency than 12V
- Safe on all major electronics Brands
Although Humminbird does say that the control heads are compatible with 10.8V to 20V, I would love to see anybody try to reliably run an Apex or Solix control head on 10.8 volts... Compatible and optimal are two completely different things.
Although there was this thread ( http://www.bbcboards.net/showthread.php?t=1162936 ) on BBC back in January of this year, there weren't any real testimonies as to whether any of this would be true in the Humminbird world.
I'm really curious if anybody has used 16V with Humminbird Apex, Solix, Mega Live, and Mega 360 to know if there was actually any discernible difference. As I also understand it, you would need new chargers for the 16V Lithium Batteries since the 12V Lithium chargers wouldn't work with them.
If I thought that there were real world improvements to be had by using 16V, I'd be all over it. I would just like to have some real world feedback from people who have gone down that path.