Furuno FCV-800 Sounder/Colour Fish Finder Run Through

Run through of the screen and buttons on the new Furuno FCV-800 colour fish finder and SCX-20 sat compass. The settings I prefer. Blue background and a white bottom is a carryover from the days when JRC FF50 and JRC Plot 500F sounders ruled the roost in South East Qld and local bar crossing expert and fishing coach Bill Corten got everyone to set their sounders up the same. The live bottom in light teal colours etc, contrast better against the white bottom V the dark maroon colour that is standard for Furuno. Lots of tweaks and good features now on this model over the 585/587/588 models preceding it. Some of these benefits explained in the video. Video is 33mins long.

[@12fishy]

Cheers bud for the video. Loving this unit over my last 588. Chirp is so good for shallow fishing so far. Can’t wait to use it 60-90m of water, see how it goes.

[@aaronkalaukoa4672]

Mahalo from Hawaii for the tutorial 🤙🏽 I just bought fcv-800 paired with a airmar TM275LHW. It’s still in the box and cant wait to install on my boat. I definitely will need this video when dialing it in.

[@smithysfishing]

Cheers. I follow a couple of channels from over there like Reel Adventures (Morris Lures), Whipsaw Sportfishing, Visions of Granders, Kenton Geer, etc. You guys are a bit more tropical than us looking at latitudes yet you get your Kona crabs there whereas we call them spanner crabs here and we have a massive commercial fishery for them. We are also probably the biggest longline port on our east coast. I run what you guys would call a 6 pack charter boat but I am more 4-5pax.

[@oburn100]

Can this unit run 2kw transducer?

[@NOVANFISHING]

Will it be just plug and play from my old fcv 588 transducer /tm260

[@smithysfishing]

Definately. You'll pick it up easy and with the few tweaks Mr Furuno has made, it is a better machine for sure.

[@NOVANFISHING]

@@smithysfishing thanks mate

[@jigsaw7019]

It’ll be nice if you can get some real time use and upload when the weather breaks, to see if it’s a worthy upgrade to the 588 performance wise. So far I’m feeling a little underwhelmed. Similar clunky interface, resolution is hardly cutting edge, considering it’s about 15yrs since the 585. Handy tutorial though 👍. Thanks.

[@smithysfishing]

The thing is it is Furuno, plugged it in and it worked and worked very well and will probably work for another 15 years and does everything I need it to do for a 2D sounder to 600m or so. Not many other units will be able to say that. Also typical Furuno, screen is not full of surface clutter. Whatever the Furuno engineers do, they do that bit better than a lot of the other brands. Can't see myself doing a video at sea, too busy working for customers but I have been putting screen shots up as I go.

[@J1mmy445]

Hi can plug my existing 175 hw into this unit ?

[@smithysfishing]

If it has a Furuno plug for sure. Fully Chirp capable. 175 is a Chirp tranny.