Cheeky Tranny - loses bottom and wont re-find it
Howdy Folks,
My boat has a damn fancy Lowrance plotter/fish finder paired up with an Airmar transducer. A damn big brick of a thing that hangs off the back of the boat.
It is a great unit and I can see the bottom in 250m so I am happy with that....but occasionally when I find a spot and back the boat up to stop momentum, it will lose bottom. Its all good and tolerable normally, but it is prooving to be a pain in the arse when we go further out...
Like when we were out in 200m of water, I reversed up just to stop momentum and it dropped bottom, so we were without any soundings for the next hours until we were back in under 30m of water.
I have turned it off and on again and it didnt re-find itself. Tirned the power off on the switch and it didnt re-find itself and have turned the batteries on and off again and it didnt sort it.
Is there a trick to re-setting it?
I know that i can just stop reversing but is there a re-set function?
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Happy dayz
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Hey mate have you checked
Hey mate have you checked that it's sitting in the mounting bracket correctly, sometimes mine pops out and can cause the same sort of issues , thought that might be worth a look at
Happy dayz
Jim
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When it happens try changing
When it happens try changing depth manually to suit the depth your in, but let the prop turbulence from going backwards settle first
Bend over
wifecallsmegrumpy
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Date Joined: 09/01/12
Seems to be a feature with
Seems to be a feature with the auto ranging for the Lowrance family of sounders. Once they lose bottom it struggles to re calibrate and start again. As Jim says try switiching to manual depth range.
Also avoid reverse :) Do a lap instead.
Swompa
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Thanks gents. I will have a
Thanks gents. I will have a go at the manual depth and just doing a circle...]
See you out there!
Jackfrost80
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I've found the Navico support
I've found the Navico support guys here in Aus to be very helpful/knowledgeable about a couple of different matters. Could be worth a call if you get no joy.
Officially off the Pies bandwagon
scubafish
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Date Joined: 15/08/12
Not sure what where working with here .
Sounder model,Transducer?
You could scroll back on the sounder and mark the spot and circle around Slowly.
Bottom lock setting on sounder,range setting to 10 or 20 mts.
couple to try if not already.
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Faulkner Family
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Have you checked that the
Have you checked that the unit is still airtight. On reverse you might be putting air bubbles in it . No expert but possible
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