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Trego, just out of curiosity, why did Humminbird have to send you the software? I thought you could just download updates from their website?? I'm having the same issue with the depth jumbing from less than 10 feet down to 40-60 feet randomly. Only mine is occurring when everything on the boat is turned off. I just wanted to make sure i wasn't wasting my time buying an SD card and downloading updates from their website. Thanks!
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Been reading this entire post since the beginning as I have a 597 ci hd di unit as well. Im in a little different situation as I do not have my own boat and have to rent so I have converted this unit to be portable. I put 70 plus hours on it in one week on Lac Seul and didn't have any of the problems that you all have been experiencing.
I am not a fishing electronics expert and agree that the issues you all are describing has got to be interference. In all of the comments and suggestions, I didnt see anyone mention routing of wiring (pardon if there was and I missed it). Just a suggestion.... but take a look at your wiring runs specifically if you have "bundled" your wiring together. Most of us probably use the existing wiring pass-thrus (because its easy & convenient) when we add more wiring for our gadgets because noone wants to drill more holes in the boat. When we do this we potentially have heavy load carrying wires bundled with our "sensitive electronics" wiring. The basic principle is that any wire carrying current creates a magnetic field. As small as this field may be imagine taking a magnet and putting it on your transducer wiring. Even thought the transducer wiring most likely is shielded it may not be good enough when it is bundled with other wires that are producing this magnetic field around them. Try isolating your sensitive wiring from your current carrying wires. IE: Dont bundle your trolling motor power wires and trolling motor mounted/bow mounted transducer wiring. My two cents as an aircraft mechanic use to to dealing with "sensitive equipment." Hi-freq coaxial cable etc can not be bundled with load carrying wiring! I would consider the same rule to apply when you are installing your new equipment in your boat! Good luck to you and happy fishing! |
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That's good to know it will be available shortly because I apparently have the latest software version already installed.
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I had this same problem and i had to send my unit in. Just got it back and out on the water and it works.....
they had to fix something internal and a new transducer it said on the repair slip. Humminbird had my unit for 10 days.. kudos to them.
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Try this??
My MK PD65 was SHREDDING the SI/DI on my new 798ciSI.
They sent me a shielded TM XDCR, it helped but didn't help much - I drilled a hole in the TM skeg and ran a ground wire from the TM casing to the hull of my tin boat (you could go to your electronics battery too....) I have eliminated at least 80-90% of my interference using DI. I have SI/DI at the console & bow mount and the rear machine (797) is crystal clear, but both work fine and I see absolutely NOTHING using the "2D" views. RAS |
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trego, what software did they give you. i have a very similar problem |
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