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Location: north central wisconsin | The one that I had the longest, actually still works, but I broke it myself when I walked into it a week or two after buying the boat used(it was probably on the boat a few years then). I marine tex'd it back together and it worked till a couple seasons ago when it finally gave way again, so I purchased a new one. I'm in the process of re-gluing it for use as the spare I should've had along in Canada last year. By the way, the symptoms of the 'bad' ones were for the most part the same when talking to separate parties with the issue. It would read fine out of the box then folks would notice it at running speeds first, losing bottom. At first I tried height adjustments etc, thinking that was the issue. Then, I would start losing the bottom line while fishing, eventually having the units sens, pegged at 100%. After putting the new one on, I would be shocked to see how 'high' I'd have my settings, and how much detail I was again able to see.
As an aside, was out today for the kids fishing contest here, and briefly thought I was having Skimmer transducer issues on my old boat, till I realized I had the HDS set for my US2 transducer in the Ranger. Dogghh!
Edited by Reef Hawg 4/14/2012 9:03 PM
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