Re: Eagle Electronics - are they being phased out?
Faraway, I had an Eagle 500DG about 3 years agom after 13 months it went whacky, Eagle said they wanted $75 to fix it. I had heard/read about AMEX extending warranty protection, so I called them, gathered the documents they wanted and filed a claim, which the paid everything except the shipping charges. Good on that end, I still wanted something with big letters that I could read from the back of my 23WA, I settled on a Hummin Bird, which I am still using and pleased with. Even found out it ws GPS capable, so for another $100.00 I found an antenna, so now I have a back up GPS for my Garmin.
I started out with a Sitex depth sounder years ago (1989) and it was exteremly hard to read in the sun, it still works, but I don't even carry it on the boat anymore. I then went with an Impulse combo depth sounder/Loran, it was rebuilt(fixed)once, they have since gone out of business, but it still works great.
It is hard to recommend one unit over the other, but my point being, they are only guarnteed for one (1) year and that is probably the expected life. Buy the cheapest one you can get by with. I have everything B&W except my Garmin GPS, which has the BlueWater Mapping system and very critical for usage in the heavy fog we get here.