No reading on fish sounder

[locodave]

Hi,

Have a new boat that came with a humminbird 917c combo.

I get no reading on the fish sounder. No graphics appear, depth is out of whack.

I am thinking it is the transducer as the gps works fine. Full screen works too when gps is on.

What do you guys think?

[oz_brett]

are you getting a water temp?

if you are the transducer is receiving power and sending signal, I would then go in to the settings with my Humminbird you have to select what kind of transducer you have & also have the option to turn transducer off.

Edited October 27, 2013 by oz_brett

[DTROJAN]

I bought a boat from a guy once who told me that Sydney harbour was so bloody deep that the sounder could never get bottom.

Upon closer inspection I found he had the transducer on upside down. Maybe worth double checking.

[The Incredible Hull]

At times my sounder would play up, there would be graphics but it would be fuzzy and the depth would be out of wack too. I also thought it was my transducer. However I went into the sounder settings, and reset all settings to default and that fixed my issue. Give that a try. Gl.

[locodave]

Hahaha that is hilarious!!

These are the graphics that i get.

No depth, water temp etc.

[locodave]

As you can see the screen is fine, just the fish finder.

[a boat]

Hi Dave, you can go into the menu and make sure the unit is receiving a signal from the tranny. That transducer alos looks too high and up on the plane I doubt you would get good readings because the bottom surface of the transducer will be out of the water.

See it all the time where someone fits a transducer incorrectly.

Cheers,

Huey.

[tasksta]

My Simrad was doing similar crazy things when i first installed it. After a factory default reset all was well.