picture 4 is the power element and its not 12v. Not quite sure what it is I do remember it hooked up to an external power source and not the main boat battery.

Sounds like my dad..He's has over 30 water cooled hit and miis engines..a model T as well and steam engine bull dozer..These fellows went through the Great Depression and threw nothing away..He lives in Maryland..Once I diagnosed an old widows washing machine..I was ready to replace the timer..My step dad chimes in.."Don;t replace it ..fix it." so he cleaned all the contacts..works like a charm..He is the best auto mechanic I know..The man is good. My grandfather was an advid hunter and picked up this jeep from a junk yard, My dad rebuilt the engine and it last for a long time..

Wow that takes me back. Back when I had a downrigger lake boat they were selling them. They competed with Humminbird and Lowrance and they were all paper graphs. From what I remember the write up on them made them look pretty good but I never saw one locally on a boat so I didn't get one. I do remember seeing them at the sport shops though. Forget about getting it to run because the paper was expensive and dirty since it was agraphite impregnated roll. Quite often you had to replace the stylist which was hooked to a rubber belt and spun over the paperand passed the electric current through the paper creating marks. The resolution was pretty good with those paper graphs. I looked at a lot of them and ended up with a Humminbird which was in a large black plastic case with a amber tinted screen. It was junk and after I went through 2 of them I got a Lowrance X15 which was state of the art for that time period which was early to mid 80's. It was a 12 volt system though and you should be able to match the power couplers with something from today. Good luck with a transducer though. The only way you will get some parts for it is if someone has one stuffed in the attic or cellar and is a pack rat. I doubt that many are still in use.

huh[&:], it says 12v right on the back of the unit




ah!!! the ole x15, man did they draw some pretty pictures or what??? i am a lowrance man thru and thru, seen some other units that are nice but always stuck with lowrance

like my buddy CI mentioned power cord would be easy, transducer, well good luck..

BTW, thanks for diggin up some old memories, after reading this post the other day i dug out some of my old "paper charting", (man i had rolls of that junk[:-])sadly most of it is hard to read now[&o], but i remember it like it was yesterday, some of those old spots still produce fish

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huh[&:], it says 12v right on the back of the unit

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Ya I think it may just become a shelf piece. I didn't get a chance to try to throw some power to it this weekend and I don't know if I want to bother trying to get the parts for it. I does look really cool though and will probably look good on the bookcase my father is going to start building here pretty quick