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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Was out today and had my 110c sonar act funny and am not sure what the trouble is. I don't know if it's the transducer or the unit itself.
Here's the symptoms. While in water that I know was 10 deep or much deeper the unit would say that I was in 1 to 2 feet of water and the shallow alarm would come on. The graph display would show only a totally filled screen or the bottom was 2 feet deep. As I said, I've fished this lake and area many times and know I was in water at least 10 feet to 30 feet deep. The GPS Map display was normal and according to that I was over 10 to 30 feet of water.
I would change ping speed, chart speed, sensitivity, turn the unit off and on, change color line, surface clarity control, the advanced signal processing, check connections, anything I could think of to try and get the unit to display normally. After awhile it would just start to read normally again and show a normal display and depth reading with normal bottom display and fish arches,etc. It would change between the abnormal shallow reading and normal for no reason that I could determine. I also looked over the transom to check for weeds or anything that might be caught on the transducer and couldn't see anything.
As I said, all GPS functions,and map display was working normally. So I don't think that it is in the unit itself but suspect the transducer or transducer cable. Does that seem logical to any of you? Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions? I hope that I don't have to replace the transducer as that would be a job ripping out the cable and running a new one. So I thought I would ask here first before ripping things apart.
Thanks for any help!!
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Location: PIERCETON, IN | Had the same problem with a new X15. Marina had to send the unit back to Lowrance for recalibration. |
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | TravS:
Do you know of any test that was done on your unit to determine if the problem was with the unit itself or the transducer? I'd hate to send the unit back to Lowrance as you had to only to find out that the unit is fine and the transducer is bad, or rip out the transducer and install a new one only to find that the unit has to go back to the factory. Thanks!  |
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Location: PIERCETON, IN | FP,
When I called them with the symptoms they seemed to know right away the problem was in the head. I have not had any problems since I got the unit back last season. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Fishpoop,
I would see if you could try your graph on a friends boat. Of course it would have to be a transducer that would work with that unit. I used a LCX110 with my LCX15 graph transducer.
I had graph problems last year and I hooked up that same graph you have with my transducer and it didn't work. I then tried my graph on his boat and it worked great.
Proble solved...My transducer went bad.
I would try this before sending your unit anywhere.
Maybe you could try a transducer if someone would borrow you one. Check with your marine dealor. Just hold it over the side of the boat and plug it in to you graph.
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