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Have watched a few video's, panoptix seems to be the real deal. I am not using one, out of my league currently.
What ducer/model are you using? How does it compare to what you were using in regards to sonar returns and mapping etc?
I have the down version, PS30. I transfer it from my colorado boat to my big pond boat (Lake Superior) when in the UP. As far as sonar returns, it's not as clean/clear as a quality 50-200 hz transducer, the return is a bit blurry (look at youtube), but you can see where or which side of the boat the fish is on, see down rigger balls, and lures or jigs, watch the fish approach the bait, come up off bottom, flee the boat, etc. You can see the slope or structure of the bottom and fish at any depth along that slope, top or bottom. You get 6 different pings out to each side of the boat (12 total) for each vertical mapping ping, rather then one vertical ping on other live bottom mapping units. It is way different than side scan. I have a Hummingbird 998SI, Garmin echomap 93sv/GT30 on my colorado boat, a Lowrance HDS 8 side scan on another , a Lowrance HDI 7 and Garmin 7610xsv with GT-50 side scan on my bigger lake superior boat.