B256 or B260

[thedink9]

I am looking to upgrade my transducer this season and am considering a B256 and /or b260. Is the 260 mounted inside the hull worth the extra cash? I will mostly be bottom fishing in 90 ft. or less of water. Dink

[Trayder]

I had the B256 mounted on the whaler and it was a fantastic transducer. The home made fairing block the previous owner fabricated was a different story....I removed the B256 to replace the fairing block and decided to go with the tilted element B60-20.

just throwing that into the mix for you, it is not as good a trasducer, spec wise, than the B256 but I think it will do just fine for our waters.


If you were fishing off the edgin in 1000's of feet of water I would stick with the B256.


The b260 is one HUGE unit if I am not mistaken? nice piece of machinery but is is giagantic.

[thedink9]

Jason

Since I will be trailering, is there a good (safe ) location where the 256 can be mounted using the good fairing block, and not interfere with the launching? I have a roller trailer.

[cSickNick]

Hey Dink,

I think the price of M260 will be overkill in 90ft of water, but i have used mine in the shallows and it works great. Below is an old post on my setup;

Well, after giving it plenty of thought over this winter, I made my decision this spring. I will admit this setup "may" be a little overkill, but after much thought and a few too many shot's of OUZO, I decide that I wanted 2 isolated screens with the most redundancy in radar/chartplotter/fishfinder. Since I had already have a Furuno 7" NavNet, below is the main stuff in what I did;

- Sold my 1850WF on Ebay, turned the $$ in for a new 7" VX2 NavNet
- Installed an Airmar M260 1KW transducer in-hull
- Installed 2 BBWGPS antenna's for each NavNet on the hardtop
- Installed 2 BBFF1 sounders one set at 1KW for the M260, one set at 600W for the P66 transom mount
- Purchased a fiberglass shallow angled E-box from FASTECH
- Made a new dash panel out of starboard
- Installed an Icom 402 and Polyplanar MRD-60 with MA905 speakers in E-box
- Installed Icom command mic and Polyplanar remote to dash
- Made a new glove box cover out of Starboard with flush latch
- Installed BlueSeas #8261 fuse/switch panel
- Installed 2 Blue Seas 6 circuit ST blade fuse blocks #5025
- rewire, rewire ….. Rewire …

I have low hours running this setup over the last 2 weekends, and so far I really like what seems to be endless flexibility of the displays. I was aware that there could or would be interferences with running both sounders at the same time. They do interfere, at times, but I wired them to the switch panel so it can shut one off. The M260 seems to perform well(as it should for the $) it can hold bottom at WOT. I also stuffed the wiring to one side the inside cabin helm box on purpose, in case an AP pump decides to find a home in there also.

Here is a few pics, oh …. Thanks to Jim at BOE for the great prices and service!

Before;

After;






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