Panoptix LiveScope - Everything You Need to Know

hey guys in today's video we're gonna be looking at Garmin's new Panoptix a live scope system I've taken a look at the Panoptix before but what they've done is they've changed it up a little bit and let me just explain to you what they've done with this new live scope system and probably the best way to do that is to compare traditional sonar with Clearview sonar traditional sonar gives us very good arches but Clearview gives us really good bottom definition that's what we had with the original Panoptix it was this style sonar now with live scope it's gonna be this style sonar so here's another example this is like a PS 21 or 22 forward-looking and then this here is the new live scope very different much more detail in these you can see the fish in much greater detail as they swim so that's the main difference between the two now there's a lot of videos out there on what what you can do with the new live scope system so I'm not gonna get into too much detail on the cool things that you can see what I wanted to get into is more the settings and the features in the unit and how to set it up and different things you can do with it because I haven't seen a lot of that on youtube yet so let's get into that okay so first thing let's just orient ourselves with the screen we've got a great across the top and across the bottom or across the side here this is our depth where we would hit the bottom here just a little bit around 40 feet and then we're out in this case to about 70 feet we can increase our range and that's the maximum that we can go in this particular recording and then also decrease the range to see more detail now our boat is situated right here at the zero so it does look a little bit behind and below and then out forward so this is the first view you're gonna get with the live scope we can go into the menu into our sonar setup and installation and then we have orientation we can change that to down now in doing that we also have to rotate the transducer so the transducer has two elements in it that'll allow you to look forward or down you need to pull the trolling motor out of the water physically rotate the transducer and make this selection in the menu if it doesn't automatically do it for you so now in this auric view our boat is here again we've got a grid going each way so we can look left and right and then down as well and see fish swimming around us so those are the two modes you would use forward-looking obviously to look ahead the boat find structure weeb clumps rock piles that type of stuff and then this view here would be used much more when you're vertically jigging so maybe fishing for smallmouth bass drop shotting vertically jigging walleye that type of thing okay so we're back into our forward orientation and just to show you what we're looking at on the screen so you get an idea we've got some standing trees here school of fish right here you can see them disappearing as they swim off another school coming in here and down here as well so that's kind of what we're looking at and it's all live in real time we go into our menu first option in the menu is our gain we have an auto low auto medium and auto high so you can set those as the unit sees fit if you want to see more detail you set to auto high if you just you know really care about seeing larger targets set it to auto low you can also then control this manually and set this however you like and just like any sonar as you go up you're gonna get more clutter Auto mediums probably a good starting point when you first get your unit to play around with it next thing in the menu you're going to notice is the depth range and again that's just like any sonar I'm not gonna spend too much time on that we can increase or decrease the depth range and then it's also available in auto now the benefit in this if you if you just want to keep a close eye on the bottom like especially in the down view you know this will be helpful because you can maximize your screen to get the most detail and then we also a forward range again that's just like what we would have the depth range but looking forward and again auto setting there as well transmitted we can turn it on or off so if you want to disable the sonar just by hitting the menu you can go turn it on or off so this will be great when you pull the trolling motor out of the water just disable the stoner when you run to your next spot come back turn it back on so that's your first page of just basic things now into the sonar setup we get a little bit more into detail appearances the first thing I'm the first thing we have in there is our color scheme so amber is the default what we're looking at now copper black emerald midnight blue orange crawfish red shad blue yellow and that is it I'm just gonna put it back to Yammer for now we also have color gain in here so this is just like on your sonar you can increase that or decrease that and you'll see come up so as targets are harder and larger you will see the bottom like the bottom or the fish the the brush whatever it may be be a little bit more intense in color and then you can also go back to your default now to me that defaults a little low I would probably want to have it set a little bit higher there okay so trails I'm just gonna skip for a second I want to come back to that in greater detail bottom fill is just a simple toggle on or off and that'll just fill in our bottom here so anything above the bottom like these trees are fish will show up in in a little bit better detail you won't get you know confused with what the true bottom is there it is on and I'm just gonna leave it off the grid system we can turn on or off as well it's nice if you do want to see how far a target is away it does help with that but I personally like it off just because it gives you just a little bit clearer image of the whole underwater world and and what's going on I am gonna just leave it on for this demo just because I want to probably reference you know how far away things are at some points of our scroll history as well what that is is this little bar here it's like a traditional down looking clear view and that's just the history of what's gone on down side to having that on is you do you lose screen real estate your your pan optics is now shrunk now we can take full advantage of the whole screen when we have that off so I would probably recommend turning that off and if you did want to have something maybe just your traditional fish finder or the Clear View sonar would be a better choice to have in there okay so I've switched over to the down view and what I want to do is talk about these trails now so I'm gonna turn them on and you can you have different options here slow medium fast so I put it on slow and basically what they are is trails for how the targets are moving and I think it just shows best in here one thing I will recommend you do though is if you are gonna use this feature change your your color scheme to the blue what that does is treat changes the trails to the magenta color there makes it a lot easier to to see and understand and also I'm gonna just turn that gain down a little bit just so you can kind of get an idea of these trails and what they're doing so for instance we'll just pick a target maybe moving in here you can see this one here just slowly moving in and leaves a trail so as they go it'll leave a trail now the downside to it is the bottom leaves a trail as well so you can see that it was up higher and now it's gone down now I did have this set to slow whoa I'm gonna change them to medium just because it does look a little bit better you can see they're still on there when they're set to slow so when you have it on medium they do update a little bit quicker and I found that a little bit better just for following the fish now this is really gonna be good and useful when you're vertically fishing you drop a drop shot down and you can see that drop shot see what you've done with it you know either lifting it up or dropping it down and then see how that fish is coming to it so you'll see a street so here's a perfect example let's see that fish streaking just like that so that's the type of stuff you're gonna see faster medium would be best slow I don't think your your really ever gonna use it on slow back into our menu here and that's basically everything in the appearance menu so I'll get back out of there noise rejection we have that if you're getting electrical interference we've got a often low medium and high so you can set that however you see I've got TVG control here is well again low medium and high so basic you know fish finder features are in this as well are overlay data you know we can turn on or off so whatever you want to see you know if you want to see how deep it is and that's it you can do that and you want to keep an eye on the time you can do that as well so you can customize that a little bit in there into our installation menu this is where we go a little bit deeper in we have a depth offset so the install depth you can go in and change that to you know whatever it is so if it's at one point five feet down you can do that and then we'll have a depth ops offset of that the reason they have that is these are designed to be installed on a trolling motor so the trolling motor is going to be lower in the water than the actual surface so you can offset for that use a hrs attitude heading reference sensor is what that is and that's an internal compass so you can turn that on or off and that will as you can see very the positioning of it now if you're using this on the barrel of a trolling motor you cannot use the compass so you have to turn it off and then you would basically manually adjust the pitch to whatever you would see fit so kind of like this in my experience with the PS 21 transducer I found you turning this off was much better and just using it on its own on a on a barrel or a shaft mount on the trolling motor but that's it's kind of up to you whatever whatever you want to do doesn't really make a difference the compass you know just basically automatically telling you what direction they're or what angle it's at I personally like to set things up me and you Lee just because I have more control that way so that's why I turn it off okay and then you have a compass calibration in here turn the boat time-and-a-half in either direction you just basically have to keep the boat steady when you do this just basically follow those instructions there and the trolling motor needs to be deployed orientation we've already gone through focus here this is something that is is kind of unique here what it is designed to do is help you if you're in fresh or saltwater because the salinity in saltwater will you know affect the echo so we can go to auto salt and then that will just clean up your picture if you're noticing it being a little cluttered or auto fresh you can also control manually here as well now I haven't really seen too much of a difference of what this scale does in the demo so it would be interesting to play with on the water and see but basically it's just adjusting your gain settings based on clarity and salinity in the water probably not something most people need to mess with but it is there if you are having issues with a lot of clutter on your screen in our last option is restore sonar defaults so if you've you know played around with this you don't like what you've done you can just go right back to the factory defaults now just back to this a hrs if you turn it off we have already talked about pitching and go you can also do flipped here so it can go on or off so that'll just adjust how your your screen is being displayed if you need to so really with this the main thing you're gonna be adjusting in here is your game if you want to play with that but other than that that's really about it the auto depth range works really well again you can play with that and you do have control of that right on the screen so you don't even need to go into the menu there which is nice the only thing you have to go a little bit deeper into the menu for is your color gain which is one thing I wish Garmin would put a little bit closer up in the menu so we didn't have to go in as deep but once you get your color picked amber is probably gonna be the most popular copper because well you can adjust that gain and kind of go from there okay now in our down-looking I find these colors I don't like near as much so what I've done in there been playing around with is the blue I really like that blue the yellows one I've been a fan of on the older style Panoptix but I don't think I'll be using that too too much the blue is gonna be really good when you're vertically fishing that's where it's gonna excel it gives you that high detail image but just very easy to see now if you want to see bottom structure and like get those really good quality images of fish swimming down below you that's when you're probably going to want to go to one of these more grainy colors like the amber the copper or even the midnight blue so in the down viewing mode our menus are identical only thing that's different is installation we have roll angle when our hrs sensor is off and that just allows you to compensate if your transducers angled a little bit zero is probably where you're gonna want to keep it unless you have a unique install to your boat so those are the main functions and features of the Panoptix live scope system it's really really cool as you can see just how detailed it is seeing these fish swimming around and no doubt you've already seen some of the other videos where you can see the tarpon swimming and you basically still see the tail wagging as the fish is moving it's really amazing technology what Garmin has here with this now to install this on your boat first thing you need to do is update the software of your unit this is a seventy six oh eight day tada it does require a module so it's no longer just a direct connect through the Garmin marine network port there is a module which will require power as well and then you're Panoptix transducer will plug into that there's no longer an rj45 Ethernet connector on it either there's a smaller Garmin marine network connector now the idea behind that is to let you fish it through the boat easier rather than that big rj45 connector so that's one thing they've changed but it then adapts to an rj45 to go into the back of the unit and when I say rj45 that's just like a standard Ethernet connector obviously Garmin's are waterproof it's not like when you plug into your computer but it's that same style connector so this is really designed to be used on a trolling motor mount and best suited on a cable steer trolling motor like a MinnKota all tracks of four tracks a Maxum motor guide tour Edition or their x5 models you can also use it on models like a tour OVA Altera anything like that like the power steering or motor guide xi5 the only downside there is again we know we owe anything on those the transducer can't be zip tied to the shaft very easily because the whole shaft of the trolling motor sliced through the the mount so you just have to be very careful with your with your cable running if you're gonna be using it on those trolling motors there is a transit mount also included with this the only thing to know there it's really designed to be mounted on a trolling motor so the transit mounts designed for very low speed use you'd probably want to mount that on your transom in an area that you could rotate it up very easily when your boats on plane especially for higher speed boats guys thanks for checking this out I hope this goes in a little bit deeper than just what you've seen in some other videos on how to set this up how to use this and just the different features of it garments done a great job with this it looks amazing this technology and I hope you guys really like it when you get to try it out on the water I'm gonna leave you with a couple videos of the Panoptix PS 21 so you can take a look at that and then also software upgrades if you need to do that please like and subscribe really appreciate your support

Channel: InDepth Sonar

Views: 407,499

Keywords: Garmin, Panoptix, LiveScope, live vu, everything you need to know, livevu down, lvc32, system, ps22, ps30, ps31, forward looking sonar, how to use, installation, tutorial, GPSMAP, echomap, plus, Lowrance, Humminbird, settings, setup, focus, ahrs, defaults, compass, calibration, watch fish swim, how to install panoptix, trails, transmit, color scheme, color gain, bottom fill, grid overlay, scroll history

Id: GN9eqqJUmm0

Length: 14min 59sec (899 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 02 2018