Wide Side Operation
The Wide Side transducer is a specialized "sidelooking" transducer which is extremely useful for
bank fishing or looking for bait fish in open water. The Wide Side transducer uses three different
sonar elements which transmit signals to the left, right, and straight down from your boat. The
downward beam is 200 kHz with a 24 degree area of coverage. This beam maintains a
continuous digital depth readout from the bottom directly beneath your boat. The side beams are
455 kHz with a 16 degree area of coverage. The side-looking elements can be used
independently or together to locate targets near the surface of the water on either side of your
boat.
The Wide Side transducer is available as a trolling motor mount, a transom mount, or a portable
mount.
Note: The Wide Side transducer can be connected directly to the Wide 3D Paramount through a
"Y" cable, or used in conjunction with the standard transducer through a transducer switch. When
used with a switch in conjunction with the Six-Beam transducer, the Wide 3D Paramount will not
recognize which transducer is selected. The user will need to manually select the transducer type
in the transducer options menu.
When a Wide Side transducer is connected, the screen display changes to display the
information from the side-looking elements. There are four basic views available when the
Wide Side transducer is in use: both, left, right, and down. These views are controlled by the
VIEW button. The default view is both, in which information from both the left and right elements
are displayed on-screen. The digital depth of the water beneath your boat is always present.
