The Garmin Striker Vivid 5CV is a fishfinder with built in Chirp Traditional and Scanning Sonar, with vivid color palettes and built-in GPS.

The Garmin Striker Vivid 5CV is a fishfinder with built in Chirp Traditional and Scanning Sonar, with vivid color palettes and built-in GPS. With the Garmin Striker Vivid 5CV with GT20-TM Transducer you can see fish and bottom structure in maximum detail, when you pick your display color, your location and your sonar for your day on the water. Use the included transducer to get Chirp traditional and ClearV sonars.

• Clear, colorful sonar: Choose from 7 new vivid color options to see fish and structure in maximum contrast and clarity on your 5 fishfinder.
• Built-In Sonar: Use the included GT20 transducer to get Garmin Chirp traditional sonar and Chirp ClearV scanning sonar.
• Waypoint Marking: To catch more fish, you need to know where the fish are biting. Use waypoint marking for hot spots so you can easily find your way back.
• High Sensitivity GPS: Plan and create routes and view your boats speed on your fishfinder using high-sensitivity GPS.
• Quickdraw Contours: Nobody knows the waters you fish better than you. With the Striker Vivid 5CV fishfinder, you can store up to 2 million acres of maps with 1 contours1.

The Garmin Striker Vivid 5CV fishfinder includes a tilt/swivel mount plus transom and trolling motor mounting hardware and cable.

Traditional Sonar

Using powerful sound waves to ping objects in the water below, Traditional Sonar translates the echoes from those waves, into the images of fish, structure and bottom depths, you see on your display. This type of pulse, or signal may be high in power, but its short in duration. This limits the total amount of energy that can be transmitted into the water column below. The cone-shaped beam, of the typical sonar transducer, is approximately 40 degrees, or less. However, this signal expands the farther it travels in the water column, so the cone of coverage it produces on the bottom of a lake can be quite large.

Different frequencies reveal different levels of detail. For example, higher-frequency sonar is best at providing clear views of fish and structure in shallower water situations. Conversely, a low-frequency pulse can penetrate deep water but provides less imaging detail. To provide a more balanced combination of depth and detail, most traditional sonars now use a dual-frequency transducer for coverage thats easier to translate.

Scanning Sonar

Scanning sonar technology, uses high-frequency pulses, to give you a detailed, photo-real representation of fish and structure in the water below. Instead of a cone-shaped beam, Garmin scanning sonars use a narrow beam of very high-frequency energy, to create extremely detailed, digitally composed sonar images.

Garmin chartplotters and transducers are available with two main types of imaging: ClearV and SideV scanning sonars. The difference between the two is that ClearV is down-imaging sonar, designed to show a high level of detail in a narrow window under the boat, while SideV, as the name implies, is side-imaging sonar covering larger areas of water, to either side of your boat. Thus, ClearV generates detailed images of what is below the boat, while SideV covers a larger viewing area around your boat. Its useful for identifying bottom features, structure and cover where the best fishing spots may be found.

SideV

ClearV

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Technical Characteristics

• Part Number: 010-02551-00
• Dimensions: 18.8 x 11.6 x 5.4 cm
• Weight: 450 gr
• Water Rating: IPX7
• Display Type: WVGA Color
• Display Size: 2.6″ x 4.3″ (6.5 x 10.8 cm) / 5.0″ diag (12.8 cm)
• Display Resolution: 800 x 480 pixels
• Mounting Options: Flush, Tilt / Swivel
• Waypoints / Favorite Locations: 5000
• Track Points: 50,000
• Tracks: 50
• Navigation Routes: 100
• With GPS
• With Built In Receiver
• Supports WAAS
• Power Input: 12 to 20 VDC
• Current Draw: 0.40 A
• Max Current Draw: 1.5 A
• Power Consumption: 4.8
• Built-in Dual Frequency Sonar
• With Clearvu
• Frequency Traditional: 50/77/200 kHz – CHIRP (mid and high) – ClearV 260/455/800 kHz
• Transmit Power: 500 W (RMS)
• Split Screen Zoom
• Fish Symbol to Identify Targets
• Autogain Technology (Minimizes Clutter; Maximizes Targets)
• Adjustable Depth Line: Measures depth of underwater objects
• A-Scope: Real time display of fish passing through transducer beam
• Water temperature sensor included
• Depth Range Shading