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Key Facts | Full Specs | Manuals | Videos

Highlights:

Lowrance HDS-12 Gen 3

HIGH DEFINITION | NETWORK DISPLAY

 

 

Easy to see | Easier To Use – The Lowrance HDS-12 Gen 3 has a 12″ LED | 1280 x 800 widescreen display with a nicely improved interface. The faster processor and integrated CHIRP Sonar, StructureScan® HD, DownScan Imaging™ and TrackBack™ make it a pretty good value.

HDS Gen 3 units are chart ready and cartography options include, Insight Genesis®, C-Map and Navionics. Getting charts is easy using the GoFreeShop for downloads and chart sharing plus dual-chart view are nice features.

Lowrance® High Definition System – The HDS-12 Gen 3 combines a brighter/1200 nits, multi-touch screen, enhanced processor, with leading-edge Lowrance fish finder technologies plus their latest advances in navigation and user interface.

The internal 10Hz GPS, dual microSD-card slots, touch-plus-keypad operation and built-in wireless connectivity make it a very easy-to-use multi-function unit.

EASE-OF-USE – The improved interface with multi-touch screen or full keypad control provides lightning-fast, fingertip access to all of the HDS Gen 3 features.

 

 

 

QUICK ADJUSTMENTS – With a faster processor and intuitive user-interface, features like scrolling menus, cursor assist, snap-to setting markers and innovative preview panes with quick-touch slider bars are a breeze to use.

 

 

MORE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY – This appears to be a pretty big step forward in multi-function design for Lowrance.

Wireless connectivity and Bluetooth along with the excellent fish finder technology that lowrance is known for, built right in – CHIRP Sonar, StructureScan HD, DownScan Imaging, StructureMap and TrackBack.

 

 

Built-in CHIRP & Broadband Sounder™ – Improved target separation and screen clarity. Detect individual targets, even when they are close to the bottom.

CHIRP ranges include: 40-60, 85-145, 130-210kHz (transducer dependent) for improved target separation and screen clarity. CHIRP provides better target separation and a clearer sonar screen over previous Broadband Sonar.

 

 

STRUCTURESCAN™ HD – True Left/Right/DownScan Imaging, the only sonar-imaging solution with dedicated side, and down-looking views for the best possible picture around and below your boat.

 

 

MORE IS BETTER – Plug-and-play compatibility with Lowrance® performance modules. Easily, add Broadband Radar™, SonicHub® Marine Audio, SiriusXM® Marine Weather and Music, Class B AIS and DSC VHF.

Include industry-leading autopilot technologies, such as SmartSteer® control for MotorGuide PinpointGPS and the Lowrance® Outboard Pilot.

 

 

 

STAYING CONNECTED – GoFree™ cloud enabled integrated wireless connectivity. Use the Lowrance® GoFree™ Control and Shop Apps to view and control select HDS® Gen 3 displays wirelessly using supported tablets and smartphones to download / upload maps and new software.

Connected like no other… NMEA 2000, Ethernet, Wireless, Bluetooth with upgrade options like Broadband Radar™, SmartSteer® for Outboard Pilot and PinpointGPS, SonicHub® and complete engine connectivity.

 

 

Navigation – 10 Hz, internal GPS antenna. Built-in Insight USA® or Navionics® cartography, with real-time StructureMap ™ overlay capability.

Compatible with Insight HD™, Navionics Platinum+ and Freshest Data, and Fishing Hotspots PRO® and C-MAP. Create personalized maps, using sonar logs from favorite areas with Insight Genesis®.

 

 

MULTI-VIEW/ CHART SHARING – View Lowrance® and Navionics® mapping data simultaneously. Or, any combination of compatible third party mapping products.

Lowrance® Ethernet enables chart sharing that shares maps across network of HDS Gen 3 units, saving high cost of additional chart-cards.

 

 

Rear Connections

1 – NMEA 2000 | data input / output
2 – ETHERNET | High bandwidth data ( radar, sonar chart)
3 – POWER – 12v input & NMEA 0183 | Optional video-in via adapter
4 – SONAR – CHIRP & Broadband Sonar
5 – STRUCTURE – StructureScan HD Sonar

 

 

Connecting directly to a single device – The ethernet port is auto sensing, meaning that the unit can connect to one network device directly, without the use of a crossover cable or switch.

 

 

Connecting to multiple devices – If connecting more than one ethernet device to a HDS-9 display, or two devices to a HDS-9 or HDS-12 display, use the optional network expansion Port (NEP-2).

If the number of Ethernet devices exceeds the number of available ports on the NEP-2, it is possible to link two or more NEP-2 modules together to provide the required ports. The NEP-2 modules are fitted with 5 Ethernet ports.

 

 

NMEA 0183 device connection – The HDS Gen 3 display has an NMEA 0183 serial port, providing both an input and an output.

The port uses the NMEA 0183 (serial balanced) standard, and can be configured in the software for different baud rates up to 38,400 baud. The NMEA 0183 cable shares the same plug as the power cable.

 

 

NMEA 2000 device connection – All HDS Gen 3 models are equiped with a NMEA 2000 connector, which allows the receiving and sharing of a multitude of data from various sources.

 

 

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Lowrance – HDS Gen 3 vs HDS Gen2/Gen2 Touch

 

• Gen 3 Sonar Output – 500w | Gen2 Touch – 500w | Gen2 – 250w
• Gen 3 is StructureScan 3D compatible
• Gen 3 can display charts from 2 sources at the same time in split screen like Insight Genesis & Navionics.
• Gen 3 comes with a newer faster processor.
• Gen 3 can display 2D CHIRP & StructureScan – both DownScan & SideScan at the same time in splitscreen.
• Gen 3 includes 2 MicroSD slots | Gen2 are full SD slots – 2 slots – 9″|12″ & 1 slot – 7″
• Gen 3 includes CrossTouch – both touchscreen & buttons for all navigation to be handled by both.
• Gen 3 has multitouch – 2 fingers for pinch & zoom
• Gen 3 has Bluetooth & built-in WIFI
• Gen 3 is only available with BOTH sonar and chartplotter | x- and m-models are not available
• Gen 3 Video-in option on all models | Gen2 only 9″|12″
• Gen 3 Built-in Structurescan in all models | HDS Gen2 Touch yes but HDS Gen2 no
• Gen 3 Better screen, glass glued to plastic instead of plastic glued to plastic.

 

*Reference: Team Colibri

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HOOK vs Elite Ti vs HDS Gen 3 vs HDS Carbon

Capabilities	HOOK	Elite-Ti	HDS Gen3	HDS Carbon
CHIRP Sonar	✓	✓	✓	✓
DownScan Imaging	✓	✓	✓	✓
Structure Scan HD		✓	✓	✓
Structure Scan 3D - opt.			✓	✓
Touch-screen (single touch)		✓	✓	✓
Touch-screen (pinch to zoom)			✓	✓
Wireless | Bluetooth		✓	✓	✓
Sonic Hub - connectivity			✓	✓
SmartSteer Control (Xi5)		✓	✓	✓
SmartSteer (Outboard Pilot)			✓	✓
Engine/data sensor		✓	✓	✓
Radar - connectivity			✓	✓
Video input - with opt. cable			✓	✓
Wide View Display				✓
Multiple Network Sounder			✓	✓
Dual Channel Chirp				✓

 

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Resources:

Lowrance | HDS-12 Gen 3 – Help & Support

TheHullTruth.com

• HDS-7 gen 3 vs Elite 9 ti
• Lowrance – HDS Gen 3 vs Carbon
• Simrad NSS EVO3, Lowrance HDS Gen 3 or Garmin 1042xsv

 

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Key Facts:

Lowrance HDS-12 Gen 3

 

• Multi-touch 12″ Widescreen
• 1280×800 | Brilliant SolarMax™ Display
• Full Control | Touchscreen or keypad
• Built-in CHIRP/Broadband Sounder
• Built-in StructureScan™ (with StructureScan™ transducer)
• Simultaneous CHIRP & StructureScan™ capabilities
• Built-in 10Hz GPS/GLONASS
  
• Built-in Wireless connectivity
• Autopilot control via Lowrance SmartSteer™
• Screen brightness | 1200nits
  
• Dual microSD card slots
• Optional video input via adapter cable
• Out-of-the-box networking via Ethernet and NMEA 2000®
• Compatible with StructureScan™, Broadband Radar™, SonicHub™ and more
• Wide selection of cartography options
• Same flush mount cutout and bracket as HDS-12 Gen2 Touch

 

 

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Lowrance HDS-12 Gen 3 - Specs

Lowrance HDS-12 Gen 3 - Manual

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