We made the first trip with our new Eagle. All I can say is WOW. We had a Hummingbird Wide 100 before and it was very old. The new Eagle show a good bottom picture at top speed, 22mph.

Although I am still getting used to the menus and screens, I think that I will really like it.

Tony

I was just thinking of buying that exact unit. Mind if I ask where you got it, and what you paid? It appears to be identical to the Lowrance 480 that costs more.

BTW, you can get an emulator for that unit on the Eagle Sonar website here Eagle emulators

The Eagle 480 has only 1500 watts peak to peak.

The Lowrance 480 has 4000 watts peak to peak.

I do not know if the difference in the power is important to you. There is a difference in the two units.

I purchased my unit from http://www.gpsdiscount.com Excellent service and fast shipping.

I did find the emulator, it was nice to be able to play with it while waiting for the unit to arrive.

Think the difference in Power watts is that one will get better readings in deeper water than the other. As I understand it, for most bass fishing usually 30' or less 1500 watts is plenty. For my money, the pixel count is the key feature and both these units have 480x480 pixels.

Try the color it is also nice.

I have the 480 on the TM & the color with GPS on the back.

Thanks for the catch on the power. I typically fish area lakes, so I'm thinking the Eagle will be good enough. The color sounds great, but it's at least $100 more or more for the same resolution.

Spend the money for color.Bought mine(color) about a year ago and Wow.It is worth the money.Look at it this way, a color unit in a couple of years when you upgrade,you will have to pay more than 100$.If your spending the money now,pay a little extra or spend later.I made that mistake.I also paid less than 300 for my Eagle 500c(320x320) at Cabelas Bargain Cave.Any where else the same unit would cost 380 bucks.But,as I said above,I now want a unit that has more pixels like your 480x480.They had a Eagle 480 color right next to it for a few bucks more.Outch!

Yep, I think that is true also.

I don't fish much more than 35 feet most of the time. So Power Watts is a waste for me.

Now Color (for the Sun Light viewing and easy of interpretation of density (hard versus soft objects, size of fish and type of structure), Pixels for all units (clarity of screen, kind of like HD versus Analog) and for the Side Image units from Hummnbird screen size is very important (screen size of the Side Image units because you're looking at SO MUCH MORE than regular 2D).

But Power Watts does not do much other than let you see way down.

We fished again on Monday. And after using it for a few more hours I am getting used to the menus.

I need to learn to read the sonar better but still all I can say is WOW. This is awesome. I even logged some data so I could post it. But I forgot it on the boat, so it will be a few weeks before I can get to it.

Tony

I love my 480, I haven't seen any reason to go color.