I need help with Setting up my Boat with Fish Finders

[Mumpy]

Hey guys,
I’ve purchased a Nitro Z7 and I’m in the process of getting it decked out. The Boat comes with a Lowrance Mark-5x Pro fishfinder that is flush mounted in the Console. I’ve purchased a Lowrance HDS7 Gen2 and a HDS5 Gen2 with Structure Scan, the entire works. I told them to Take the Lowrance Mark-5x Pro out of the Console and Flush mount the HDS7 and put the HDS5 up front and network the two. They aren’t going to get to doing any of the installation until Monday so I have some time here to change my mind.

Last night I was thinking about it and thought, Should I leave the Lowrance Mark-5x Pro flush mounted and have them Mount the HDS7 up front with a Ram Mount and the HDS5 next to the Console with a Ram Mount and instead of networking the two have the Front read off the Trolling motor Transducer and the Back Mounted read the Structure Scan, or can both read the Structure Scan and the Front get it’s DI and SI from the Trolling Motor Transducer?

Lots of questions as you can tell. But I really want to get this right before I go pick it up and decide I don’t like the way I have it set up.

Thanks a ton guys!

 

[TN444PSD]

From what I have heard and the seen in the demo's the 5 is realy too small to view the LSS good, might want to keep that in mind, JMO.

 

[Bbowen]

I just got a 7 gen 2 ram mounted at the console and love it but I imagine the five would be pretty small there

 

[Mumpy]

This is what I'm going to do. First of all I'm going to leave the Lowrance 5x Pro mounted in the Console and RAM Mount the HDS5 Gen2 to the Right of that. When running the boat I'll use the 5x Pro as my Sonar and the HDS5 in Full Screen for the GPS.

I will link the two HDS Units Ethernet-Linked (Yellow Cable) through the StructureScan Box. This way both units can read the StructureScan and get complete Waypoint Sharing between the units. I want dedicated Sonar Transducers for each unit for my 2D so I can share these Transducers between units with the Network Sonar option enabled. The HDS7 that is mounted on the front will have the Transducer mounted on the Trolling Motor.

So that's my plan, The HDS5 that's RAM Mounted by the Captain's Chair is for the Back guy, if he can't see it, That's HIS problem, LOL.