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Jan. 18th, 2022 03:43 amOrdered a small stand-alone HawkEye depth sounder. It came in. Despite the ad copy, it is not able to sound depth through the hull. Of course, after I get the thing, I get curious for tech specs and start googling likely keywords and figured out that it's way lower wattage than other ones. I got a used one, but new these are selling for $100. Garmin has a cute little mini chart plotter with fish finder and depth for $140 so I very much expected the principle of "do one thing and do it well" to apply here but nope. Remembering that Dillon on Keep Turning Left has the same depth finder and his is constantly cutting in and out.
A small (but not so tiny as the super low end Garmin that apparently has... ok, after reading more, does not have charts, only plots, and does not accept charts, but is 240 watt vs 33 and does accept a shoot-thru specific transducer) plotter/depth finder came with but was on a wobbly badly made arm that kept coming loose so I took it down previously. Hooking up its depth sounder in a nice mineral oil bath, it instantly got a correct reading and held it. The HawkEye I tried in five different places and nada except some briefly flashing wildly wrong numbers.
HawkEye's manual said that if the transducer didn't work thru-hull, you could exchange it for a "custom" one. Investigating that more, you pay shipping for the return and the replacement, and the replacement is a thru-hull, not a shoot-thru. So feeling like they really buried vital info in the ad copy there.
Sadly Garmin has moved away from both factor repair on devices and from selling you BlueCharts for just about any device they make, instead wanting you to have a certain tier of device. Tried a tiny chunk of OpenSeaMap on the eTrex 10 and it didn't know what to do with it so that's one of the few exceptions, but then the fenix 5+/6 Garmin watches will do Bluecharts which is kind of crazy. So I guess I'll hook this little Lowrance plotter/sounder up again and try to get it a better mount. I should probably try to figure out how old its charts are since it's very much an older model, tho I don't know if I want to spring $270 bucks for new charts for it. It's black and white LCD at least so it might be visible in the sun. I was probably too hasty in taking it down originally.
The intro philosophy class started. I was thinking from the course description I'd be re-taking a formal symbolic logic class I took at UMN that I enjoyed and talk about too much, and Cerro Coso was wrongly not transferring those credits even though it's the same. Turns out, this is more of an intro to the UMN class. Also, I've decided that every Prentice Hall/Pearson Ed text book is complete rubbish. Fluffy watered down conversational chatty dumbed down garbage that's just painful and tedious.
Confusingly, Canvas for this class has no discussions, only one written assignment that's only three pages, and just a whole bunch of quizzes with a lecture and reading each week. This is very not the usual online learning formula that became popular.
Friend's physics class started at about the same time. We were egging each other on to finish things but the classes he needed weren't available so I wound up starting to suffer before him. One of they "hey, me too things!" we did was both having and using small handheld Garmin devices and using them for other activities too. He has a GPSmap unit a bit larger than my eTrex 20x. BlueCharts is still supported on that in the latest release and it has a little bad built in camera which I thought makes a lot of sense. If I see something interesting, I'm way more likely to have the GPS at hand than a phone.
After read three chapters of insipid blubbering, someone online was ranting about https://vk.com/wall432849267_1286 , so I read that short in one sitting.
A small (but not so tiny as the super low end Garmin that apparently has... ok, after reading more, does not have charts, only plots, and does not accept charts, but is 240 watt vs 33 and does accept a shoot-thru specific transducer) plotter/depth finder came with but was on a wobbly badly made arm that kept coming loose so I took it down previously. Hooking up its depth sounder in a nice mineral oil bath, it instantly got a correct reading and held it. The HawkEye I tried in five different places and nada except some briefly flashing wildly wrong numbers.
HawkEye's manual said that if the transducer didn't work thru-hull, you could exchange it for a "custom" one. Investigating that more, you pay shipping for the return and the replacement, and the replacement is a thru-hull, not a shoot-thru. So feeling like they really buried vital info in the ad copy there.
Sadly Garmin has moved away from both factor repair on devices and from selling you BlueCharts for just about any device they make, instead wanting you to have a certain tier of device. Tried a tiny chunk of OpenSeaMap on the eTrex 10 and it didn't know what to do with it so that's one of the few exceptions, but then the fenix 5+/6 Garmin watches will do Bluecharts which is kind of crazy. So I guess I'll hook this little Lowrance plotter/sounder up again and try to get it a better mount. I should probably try to figure out how old its charts are since it's very much an older model, tho I don't know if I want to spring $270 bucks for new charts for it. It's black and white LCD at least so it might be visible in the sun. I was probably too hasty in taking it down originally.
The intro philosophy class started. I was thinking from the course description I'd be re-taking a formal symbolic logic class I took at UMN that I enjoyed and talk about too much, and Cerro Coso was wrongly not transferring those credits even though it's the same. Turns out, this is more of an intro to the UMN class. Also, I've decided that every Prentice Hall/Pearson Ed text book is complete rubbish. Fluffy watered down conversational chatty dumbed down garbage that's just painful and tedious.
Confusingly, Canvas for this class has no discussions, only one written assignment that's only three pages, and just a whole bunch of quizzes with a lecture and reading each week. This is very not the usual online learning formula that became popular.
Friend's physics class started at about the same time. We were egging each other on to finish things but the classes he needed weren't available so I wound up starting to suffer before him. One of they "hey, me too things!" we did was both having and using small handheld Garmin devices and using them for other activities too. He has a GPSmap unit a bit larger than my eTrex 20x. BlueCharts is still supported on that in the latest release and it has a little bad built in camera which I thought makes a lot of sense. If I see something interesting, I'm way more likely to have the GPS at hand than a phone.
After read three chapters of insipid blubbering, someone online was ranting about https://vk.com/wall432849267_1286 , so I read that short in one sitting.
