01-07-2004, 07:20 PM
Does your unit have an adjustible depth range feature?
Your depth range may be set shallower than the bottom. In wich case you would only view the range of water selected.
If thats not it, I would check your connections.
I had this same thing happen to me at causey last week. I turned it on, it read the bottom at 200 ft then jumped to 1.9 ft. I was only in 26 ft of water. I looked at the connection on the back of the unit and had failed to plug the sonar connector in all the way. I pluged it in all the way and back to normal.
How long is a bit? If it works for twenty minuets then looses bottom, thats messed up, but if it is just for a few seconds as the unit is initializing, that may be normal and you just need to adjust your settings.
What depth does it read? Does the depth it reads stay the same all the time? Or does it read 20 ft deep one day, 50 ft another day, ten feet the next day?
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Your depth range may be set shallower than the bottom. In wich case you would only view the range of water selected.
If thats not it, I would check your connections.
I had this same thing happen to me at causey last week. I turned it on, it read the bottom at 200 ft then jumped to 1.9 ft. I was only in 26 ft of water. I looked at the connection on the back of the unit and had failed to plug the sonar connector in all the way. I pluged it in all the way and back to normal.
How long is a bit? If it works for twenty minuets then looses bottom, thats messed up, but if it is just for a few seconds as the unit is initializing, that may be normal and you just need to adjust your settings.
What depth does it read? Does the depth it reads stay the same all the time? Or does it read 20 ft deep one day, 50 ft another day, ten feet the next day?
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