This is the third summer with this unit. The first year everything was fine. It ran like it should have. Late last summer it started acting up. It would lose the bottom and flash .8 to 1.4 feet no matter what depth I am in. This spring I installed the new software for the thing. This weekend it would do the same thing. I found that if I ran up on some rocks or hard bottom and gave it a few minutes, it would figure itself out and I would regain the bottom. This might work for 15 minutes or over an hour. I did find that if I unchecked the auto rangefinder and set it for some depth deeper than I am in I could get a bottom reading, but those stupid .8 to 1.4 would keep flashing. 1. I have the depthfinder mounted near the transom and run my trolling motor from the bow making it guesswork on my depth. B. I shouldn't have to put up with this garbage on a $700.00 unit. Has anyone else had this problem? Solutions? Can a tranducer work some of the time and then confuse the machine other times? I do have the shallow water feature enabled. It doesn't matter whether I'm in shallow water or deep water when this happens.
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This is the third summer with this unit. The first year everything was fine. It ran like it should have. Late last summer it started acting up. It would lose the bottom and flash .8 to 1.4 feet no matter what depth I am in. This spring I installed the new software for the thing. This weekend it would do the same thing. I found that if I ran up on some rocks or hard bottom and gave it a few minutes, it would figure itself out and I would regain the bottom. This might work for 15 minutes or over an hour. I did find that if I unchecked the auto rangefinder and set it for some depth deeper than I am in I could get a bottom reading, but those stupid .8 to 1.4 would keep flashing. 1. I have the depthfinder mounted near the transom and run my trolling motor from the bow making it guesswork on my depth. B. I shouldn't have to put up with this garbage on a $700.00 unit. Has anyone else had this problem? Solutions? Can a tranducer work some of the time and then confuse the machine other times? I do have the shallow water feature enabled. It doesn't matter whether I'm in shallow water or deep water when this happens.
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