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Location: Grand Forks ND | Does it hurt the transducer to run the sonar out of water? I have a GPS/Sonar unit mounted on the bow that connects to Universal Sonar in the trolling motor. When I switch spots it's nice to leave to unit on so you don't have to wait for the GPS to lock on position. Does this hurt anything?
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Location: Medford, WI | Brian,
I'm no expert on this, but I've had a sonar on out of the water many times as it turns on automatically when I plug it in and the unit seems to work just fine still. Again, best to find out someone who knows for sure but I've had no problems with it. Not sure how it could.
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| Won't hurt it. It just doesn't have a liquid medium to return the pings, so you won't read anything on the graph. |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | Not an issue for me. I've run my US2 for going on three years now, often out of the water, not an issue. |
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Location: Birchwood, WI. | esoxfly - 7/30/2010 2:20 PM
Not an issue for me. I've run my US2 for going on three years now, often out of the water, not an issue.
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Location: syracuse indiana | no it wont but having your ping speed on 100 will kill it after a while. but usualyy 50 % is the best for trolling around or going slow, but if you take her wide open and your loosing the bottom set it on 100% and that will show you the botom very fast. its a good tool for blowing across a lake and finding a school of bait fish, but you have to take it back down to 50 so you dont burn up the ducer.. just a helpful hint here.....bill |
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Location: On the water | When pulling the trolling motor out of the water to move from spot to spot, I never turn off the depth finder, and never had a problem with the transducer.
Tom |
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Running Sonar Out of the Water