Garmin Fishfinder 400C Reviews
Up for review: Garmin Fishfinder 400C. Your perfect companion on the high seas the Garmin 400c is your all-in-one guide. The Garmin 400C fish finder is incorporated with a brusque, ultra-bright, 4-inch, full-color QVGA display of 320 x 240 pixels resolution that makes your fishing life easy. It helps you to easily make out base detail and fish from the background appearance.
Navigating your way on this Garmin product is easy with the one-touch routing through various functions via front panel control buttons. You also get screen updates at live-action speeds through the UltraScroll facility. For optimum performance and night and low-light conditions, the 400C is fitted with a backlit keypad, and a new night mode function.
Now you can locate fish easily wherever you go with the Garmin 400C Fish Finder-Dual Beam Transducer. The DBT is a great combination of simple interface and high performance which makes it so easy to use. The 400C is a great functionality tool which uses a base system, and a variety of transducers for multiple fishing options and environment. Go catch this amazing entry-level fish finder if you just want to get out and find fish!
Garmin Fishfinder 400C Features and Specifications Review:
Physical & Performance:
- Unit dimensions, WxHxD:5.7″ x 5.0″ x 2.9″ (14.5 x12.7 x 7.4 cm) Display size, WxH:2.6″ x 3.3″(6.5 x 8.5 cm)
- Display resolution, WxH:240 x 320 Pixels
- Display type:QVGA
- Weight:17.6 (499 g)
- Waterproof:Yes (IPX7)
- CANet® compatible:Yes
- Audible alarms:Yes
- Dual-frequency sonar capable:Yes
- Dual-beam sonar capable: Yes
- Split-screen zooms: Yes
- Ultrascroll™ (displays fish targets at higher boat speeds):Yes
- See-thru® technology (exposes fish hidden in cover): Yes
- Fish Symbol ID (helps identify fish targets): Yes
- AutoGain Technology (minimizes clutter, maximizes targets):Yes
- Whiteline (indicates hard or soft bottom): Yes
- Adjustable depth line (measures depth of underwater objects):Yes
- A-scope (real time display of fish passing through transducer beam):Yes
- Bottom lock (shows return from the bottom up): Yes
- Water temperature log and graph: Yes
- Water temperature sensor included:No
- Water speed capable (displays speed on water):Yes
Others:
- Frequency: 50/200 kHz (dual frequency), 80/200 kHz (dual beam)
- Transmit power: Dual Frequency: 500 Watts (RMS), 4,000 Watts (peak to
- Peak); Dual Beam, 400 Watts (RMS), 3,200 Watts
- (Peak to peak)
- Voltage range: 10-35 VDC
- Maximum depth: 1,500 ft (dual frequency), 900 ft (dual beam)
- Cone angle: 45º/10º (dual frequency), 45º/15º (dual beam)
The multitalented Fishfinder 400C is great for finding fish in freshwater as well as saltwater with its super bright¸ high resolution 10 cm display. In fact the 400C is adaptable for both saltwater and freshwater fishing due to the availability of both dual beam and dual frequency transducers. While the 400 watt (RMS) dual beam version offers a wide fish-finding cone to reach depths of 900 feet, the 500 watt (RMS) dual frequency transducer¸ reaches upto1¸500 feet.
The Garmin 400C has a built-in CANet connectivity that allows sonar data to be shared with a chart-plotter. This unit weighs just 1.5 pounds, and the dimensions are; 5.72 x 5 x 2.73 inches (W x H x D) which makes it portable and placed easily. Priced at about $349 this unit has been designed to be expandable and, upgradeable.