lowrance X-75

[PDN]

I have several ? and need some answers about this locator.

1)I have the transducer Mounted to a board rather then the back of the boat. My boat is a 170 trophy allumacraft. I can not for the life of me get the tranducer to work at high speed I have tried moving it,moving it up and down,tilting the transducer but anything over 25mph it cuts out

2)last night when I was fishing on the right side of the split sceen the # 10 appeared and for the life of me I could not get it off the screen. Then when I went with the full screen it went across the whole screen,it showed a dark line all the way across with #10 next to it. I tried turning it on and off but nothing seemed to help.

3) I'm very frustrated is it time for a new locator?

Any help would be much appreciated Thanks

[Rost]

Give Jim at Fish Lectronics a call at 218-963-4375. He is located in Nisswa (I believe). Anyways, he helped me out with my LMS. He'll be able to either fix the problem or give you possible solutions.

[Kab Dreamin]

PDN,

I had the same depth finder on the same boat and had the same problem. I cured the problem about not reading at high speed making sure the transducer was located exactly between the keel strakes. Get it too close to one and the turbulence coming off of it causes interference and bad readings.

As for the number ten appearing on the screen, ya got me. I used to have half of the screen blank out in cold weather and the only way I could make it work was to turn on the screen backlighting. In the cold something in the circuitry must have contracted and caused a bad connection. Keeping the light on seemed to heat it up and solve the problem.....sometimes.

I pretty much dealt with the problem by selling the boat and buying a Trophy 190.

[fisher_king2004]

I've got the same unit mounted on my Crestliner Phantom 170. None of the problems you mention. Might be the boat bottom but I'd check with the depth finder repair guys to see if they have seen it before.

[PDN]

Thanks for the help. I guess we will just move it again and see what happens I did get the #10 to disapear so that was good I was just trying to get by this year without buying a new one but maybe it's time for a new locator. I hate to be running over uncharted water without a locator that can read the depth. Does anyone know where you can find used depth finders other then like hsolist? Thanks again for the tips

[LMITOUT]

I'm having somewhat the same issue. I replaced a X-85 with a X-15 and I mounted the new tranducer in the exact same spot as the old. The X-85 never had a problem showing depth at any speed or lake depth, but the X-15 starts to fade out not long after I get on plane. I cannot figure out why there should be a problem with it in the same location as the X-85. I moved the new 'ducer down a little and it seemed to help, but it still shows a weak bottom signal after running on plane for a while. I'm going to mount a board on my boat and move it around some more to try to clean up the signal.

[Rip_Some_Lip]

I got the same thing going from a x45 to a x67c. Guess I better mount a board and do the same. What is the best way to put a board on and how big of one?

[bendaryesterday]

I have heard of lots of problems with lowrance units cutting in and out . It sucks because there the best out there I had the problem when I got going about 20 and above it would cut out. I find the fix my vex transducer must gave iterferance. I turn my vexlar off and x95 works fine.