CHIRP Mix and Match

Many Airmar CHIRP transducers are now built and sold as a common base version with a 9-meter attached cable, plus a 1-meter equipment cable for connection to a specific brand of sounder or fishfinder. This gives a total cable length of 10 meters.

The 9-meter cable attached to the transducer is run through the boat up to the sounder/fishfinder location. One of the 1-meter equipment cables is then connected to the transducer cable at one end and to the sounder/fishfinder at the other end. This arrangement avoids the need to change the transducer or re-run cable when switching to a different brand of sounder/fishfinder.

One end of the CHIRP MM equipment cables has a 12-pin Airmar socket that plugs into the cable pigtail attached to the transducer (shown on the right in the image above). The other end has a brand-specific connector for a sounder or fishfinder (Raymarine 11-pin connector shown on the left).

Available equipment cables:

• MMC-0 : Bare wire, no connector
• MMC-8G : Garmin 8-Pin Blue
• MMC-9N : Navico (Lowrance/Simrad) xSonic 9-Pin
• MMC-9N2 : Navico (Lowrance/Simrad) xSonic Dual 9-Pin
• MMC-11R-HM : Raymarine 11-Pin High/High-Wide/Medium Bands
• MMC-11R-LDB : Raymarine 11-Pin Low/Dual Bands
• MMC-12G : Garmin 12-Pin Orange
• MMC-14HB : Humminbird 14-Pin
• MMC-BL : Navico (Lowrance/Simrad) 7-Pin Blue
• MMC-BL2 : Navico (Lowrance/Simrad) Dual 7-Pin Blue Y-Cable
• MMC-HB : Humminbird 9-Pin