Transducer deflecter shield

[Walker]

Anybody use one? My new garmin unit has a big long transducer that sprays water all over. Sprays my outboard and my talon. I Google and there are a bunch of shapes and styles of deflectors. Any real word experience for anyone?

[HTOWN]

Materials, shapes and sizes. Pick what ya like. I don't have the need for one, but I see quite a few bay boats with different makes and models.

[glen]

Just run shallow enough to rip off the transducer like I just did. No more side scan

[ElPescador24]

I cut mine out of a sheet of aluminum. I shaped it similar to those wrap around plates people add to their lower units to prevent porpoising. It works, sorry I don't have a picture.

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[Buckshot-73]

I thought outboard was designed to get wet.

[RifleBowPistol]

I guess there are more types of transducers than I realized, or someone is just using a word that sounded cool to them. I have only know of pressure transducers. I don't think a fish finder would have any purpose for a pressure transducer. Reading the title and the first post, I was lost. The only transducers I know of, are sensors for pressure, used for fuel pressure, oil pressure, hydraulic pressure, manifold pressure. I am pretty sure the electronic scales use large flat pressure transducers. I think the equipment they use to measure pressures in a chamber of a gun, are pressure transducers.
So putting a shield on a transducer, did not make much sense to me. I guess Garmin likes the word and used the name for their sensors. Maybe they are correct in using the word, maybe there are other types of transducers. But my understanding of how a transducer/pressure transducer works. I would not think it any variation of a transducer would be of any help with a fish finder.

I guess I will have to research transducers.

[Walker]

As far as I know all fishfinders/depth finders call their units transducers. Never heard of pressure transducers.

[hogslayer78]

I guess there are more types of transducers than I realized, or someone is just using a word that sounded cool to them. I have only know of pressure transducers. I don't think a fish finder would have any purpose for a pressure transducer. Reading the title and the first post, I was lost. The only transducers I know of, are sensors for pressure, used for fuel pressure, oil pressure, hydraulic pressure, manifold pressure. I am pretty sure the electronic scales use large flat pressure transducers. I think the equipment they use to measure pressures in a chamber of a gun, are pressure transducers.
So putting a shield on a transducer, did not make much sense to me. I guess Garmin likes the word and used the name for their sensors. Maybe they are correct in using the word, maybe there are other types of transducers. But my understanding of how a transducer/pressure transducer works. I would not think it any variation of a transducer would be of any help with a fish finder.

I guess I will have to research transducers.

All depth finders/ fish finders have a transducer and yes its called a transducer. Its what sends the sonar out and sends the image from the sonar back to graph 👍

[Walker]

Bought a Garmin brand deflector and it did the job. No spray anymore. Easy install. Should have come with the unit.

[twistedmidnite]

I have one on my trolling motor transducer. Got it at bass pro but it's more for the transducer breaking than spraying water.