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hi everyone

jeff cote here with boatingtechtalk.com

we are doing a product opening or

unboxing

and today we are looking at the lawrence

hook reveal 7 hds live

fish finder so this is a product that

we're going to be deploying on a lot of

boats that are really

obviously into fishing lawrence i mean

that's their claim to fame

clearly they're huge player in this

space the good thing about this

box or the packaging is is actually

representative of all the different

features that you've actually thought

on on the product they even show you a

little bit in the back as well

so this has chirp which is great it has

downscan imaging which is another thing

it really shows you the bottom profile

now lorenz is not the only manufacturer

that does this but they do it very well

genesis live fish reveal and you even

have

side scan imaging so pretty powerful

device

okay and that is the other side as well

so it gives you a little bit of all the

different size

all right with that i'm going to turn

the product around and we're going to

see what's inside

by the way of course this comes with a

built-in gps

antenna which a lot of char plotters

have

again pretty convenient so you don't

have to actually worry about having an

external gps

first thing i'm noticing is this product

is very light

which is not a bad thing oh yeah this is

this is kind of sweet right here so

here's a shot from the top of what's

included

you have the control knobs all over here

which is great

again a lot of us not all but some of us

certainly like to be able

to interact with the display with side

buttons you know sometimes we're going

fast and it's hard

you know to interface a touch screen at

speeds so this

is a good way to solve this problem

notice i'm taking out a transducer it

even comes with a transducer which is

nice

the transducer mounting bracket which

we're going to talk about

the little knobs that are basically

essential

if we want to hold the display

in its place i'm gonna keep going here

i'm gonna take

everything in the box and then we're

gonna actually walk through

all of it together okay

as you can see me handling this this is

relatively light it's amazing

how much we can pack into these little

devices now

so again this has a built-in gps which

is great

let me show you the back the back is

going to have really two connection

points

right you're going to have a connection

point for this little power

adapter which goes in the little port

over here

and then the transducer actually goes in

the port above so this is not

you know a chart plot that is everything

right it's a chart plotter fish finder

and it's built for a purpose and again

it's important to not have

sometimes you know especially when we're

doing marine electronics it's not about

having a product that does

everything on your boat that you don't

need some of us only need a chart

plotter fish finder and this would be a

really good product to consider for your

boat

all right i'm going to put the screen

over here a little bit to the side

and obviously

i want to talk about the trunnion

bracket so the trunnion bracket and

these are the screws that actually are

meant to mount this and you can actually

see the knobs

again so some of us are going to be

installing yes you could flush mount

this

but it's possible but most of us won't

right most of us are going to be

on a device like this maybe putting it

on a center console on top

it's certainly easier to mount something

on a trunnion bracket or a u-bracket

like this than it is to flush mount it

but again flush mounting is an option

and here's where the flush mounting

would happen notice these

i want to have a shot from the top you

actually have these little screws

holes here these little openings so if

you were to

actually do a cutout of this you could

actually

fix this display right into the dash

right which is good which is really good

the other thing too

is this um transducer

gives you both side view uh basically

and

also side scan imaging right on either

side right

and then also chirp for down below

this is

the the little kit in a bag which is

nice that it's sealed

so you don't lose all the hardware but

this is actually how you would install

this transom mount transducer so this is

not going to be

for a 50 or 60 foot boat you know

transom mount transducers generally are

you know from maybe about to 30 feet 10

meters

maybe you know 12 13 14 meters maybe

but it's going to be on those boats

where you've got a transom you might

have outboards or inboards and you're

going to be installing this

flush or parallel to the water line in a

place on the boat where you have really

good

laminar flow it's not good to have water

bottles

coming under the transducer and the

other thing too is you notice is that if

ever

something does hit the front of it which

is barely noticeable it will just kick

up and then you end up pushing it back

down so it's meant to not stay in place

on impact it's meant to lift if it

needed to a little bit

and then you would push it back so i

recommend to boaters that have transom

mount transducer which is this

to regularly look at the transom to make

sure that they did not hit something in

the

water some sort of debris that made the

transducer go

up the other thing too is you'll notice

is in case you're wondering well

jeff how do i make sure that this you

know aesthetic display here

doesn't have these openings and i don't

want to see the fasteners well

this is this little bag what it allows

you to do is cover

these little openings and then that way

you can't see the fasteners so it looks

a nice flush finish

and they even give you again these would

be

fasteners again for mounting and they've

got a fuse

and a fuse of holder so it's essential

of course

that every power device on your boat has

a fuse

so in this case they're giving a fuse

for the appliance but also make sure

that the whole

circuit is energized and also has a fuse

at the beginning

so even though there's a fuse for this

device make sure that the whole wire

that is powering this device is fused at

the start

so this is basically the hook reveal

seven

great for fish finding chart plotter all

right so it's both fish finding and

chart plotter

and if you've got further questions or

even if you have it on your boat

please share with other voters right

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put it down below tell us what you like

about the product tell us about maybe

things that you'd want the product to be

different

again all this information helps us make

things

better so thanks for watching and be

safe on the water