It's bassackwards Sealyon. If you want it on the starboard side like you have it, the transducer will be on the left side of the pole. The link below has a nice graphic on page 2 on the orientation. The port and starboard orientations are not mirror images of each other either. Logic would have you thinking otherwise. Take a look at the images in the guide below. Even if you rotated your pole 180, you will still need to adjust the angle to 45* for forward view and roughly 30* for downward view. I just got mine too, so I"m head scratching a little myself.
Used mine for the 1st time today. I really like it, but need to revisit my homemade pole. It was awesome working the lure down to the crappie and truly knowing you were in the right spot for a bite.
I actually have both DI/SI and the LSV32 on the same pole. I planned to connect the ground on it and the 1022 to negative, but didn't yet. I didn't see any issue though I've only had it out for one trip. The wire is run all the way, I just didn't connect it to the neg terminal, but I will. So in my case, it doesn't appear necessary, but I had spent some time on my grounding for the birds I have front and back already.
