Humminbird SmartCast RF45 Advance Remote Sonar Sensor Reviews
Humminbird SmartCast RF45 Advance Remote Sonar Sensor
- Gives you a better performance from your SmartCast RF15, RF25, and RF35 fish finder
- Greater depth capability, and longer in-water usage time than original RSS
- Programmable two-channel operation so you can fish with a buddy without crossing signals
- Flashing, internal light that you can switch on or off for night fishing
- For use in US and Canada only, and backed by one-year limited warranty
With the new RF 45 Advanced Remote Sonar Sensor, you get even greater performance from your SmartCast wireless remote sonar: greater depth capability (120 feet); water surface temperature reading; longer in-the-water use (500 hours with the WetSwitch technology); programmable two-channel operation so you can fish with a buddy without crossing signals; and even a flashing, internal light for night fishing that you can switch on or off.With the Humminbird RF45 Advance Remote Sonar Sensor (RSS), you get an even better performance from your SmartCast wireless remote fish finder. This unit provides you with a greater depth capability, and longer in-water usage time than the RSS device that originally came with your SmartCast system. The RF45 fea
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Paul L
January 12, 2012Great for the price,
I’ve now had this little guy for a year and with the exception of the green transducer dying in the first week (replaced immediately by Humminbird), it works like a charm. It’s been in both frest and salt water repeatedly without a hiccup. I’ve had it in as much as 60 feet with fairly good resolution, discerning between weeds, rocks and fish
well for the price. Great little unit for the money, for sure-especially if you have a kayak like me. You won’t be disappointed.
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|Jesse Skeens
January 12, 2012Great device for learning to fish,
Got this as a gift for Christmas when I was shopping with the wife at BassPro here in Orlando. I had been researching these units for a few days after reading about one online. The fact that I could cast out from the shore appealed to me so I chose one of the smartcast models. BassPro had the RF10 on sale and the R15 was the price I had expected the R10 to be so I went with the R15. It includes grey scale and water temp as part of the upgrades from the R10 series.
Over the past two weeks I’ve taken the R15 out to 4-5 lakes around my area to test it out. Provided I do a nice steady retrive a smooth display of the bottom is presented. I have also seen a fair amount of fish on the display using the Fish ID function. From what I have read on various newgroup posts this feature should generaly be turned OFF. Instead one is supposed to learn how to identify fish using “raw” sonar returns. So far I have not seen any “fish arches”. I have a feeling I might need to be in deeper water for this to occur.
Overall the detail is nice and there are four options for displaying the 4 gradations of grey in ordet to highlight either weak or strong returns. One of the limilations of using this near the shore is that is does not do well with shallow depths. It lists 2 feet as the minumum but even depths of 3 feet and a bit more seem to confuse it, giving false returns. I have not tested its actual ability to recognize a return as a fish yet. I say this becuase so far I have not taken my tackle out, just the fishfinder in order to concentrate on learning it. I think I will try adding some bait to a line and attaching this to the small hole provided on the bottom of the RSS to see if it will show any fishing coming up to check it out.
I have had the unit lock up here and there, but unpluging the power cable and reinserting it and then turning on the unit again seems to have solved it. The other day I was getting some weird temp readings, it went from 40F and then back to the correct temp of 71F a few times. I also expienced an anomoly with the display. When set to “Black” mode for bottom detail the unit was only displaying 10H/6V pixels of resolution. Not sure what was up with that and I haven’t tested it since then. Perhaps its a battery thing.
Overall I’m really happy with the unit. Sure is nice to be able to see contours of a lake as well as know if fish are in the area. Although the Fish ID might not be perfect you at least know that if nothing is showing on the screen at all to move somewhere else so as to not waste time.
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