I have a Humminbird HDR 600 installed by the mfgr in a 5 year-old boat. Puck style epoxied to inside of hull.
Symptoms are:
-most of the time it just reads minimum depth or nothing at all (the other screen parameters such as ft or ko are still visible).
-every so often it will read a good depth on its own for a few seconds then go back to min.
-if I push the up or down button or go thru a setup screen or two it will read a good depth and settle back down to min.
-when no depth display, I disconnect/reconnect the cable to the transducer it "wakes it up" and gives me min again.
I call Humminbird and they won't let me talk to a tech -- just customer support. CS says it is probably the unit, the transducer, or the cable. Lots of help. If they fix my dash unit it is $70 plus shipping to them or I can buy a new unit w/ transducer for $100. The replacement is a HDR 610 -- a slightly upgraded model.
I don't mind buying a new one. What I don't want to do is buy one that isn't needed.
Based on my symptoms above, does anyone have a good starting point or a good test to narrow things down?
I'm going out this morning to trace the cable path for kinks, nicks, or overly aggressive tie wraps (I'll replace them w/ velcro one-wraps).
Thx
Symptoms are:
-most of the time it just reads minimum depth or nothing at all (the other screen parameters such as ft or ko are still visible).
-every so often it will read a good depth on its own for a few seconds then go back to min.
-if I push the up or down button or go thru a setup screen or two it will read a good depth and settle back down to min.
-when no depth display, I disconnect/reconnect the cable to the transducer it "wakes it up" and gives me min again.
I call Humminbird and they won't let me talk to a tech -- just customer support. CS says it is probably the unit, the transducer, or the cable. Lots of help. If they fix my dash unit it is $70 plus shipping to them or I can buy a new unit w/ transducer for $100. The replacement is a HDR 610 -- a slightly upgraded model.
I don't mind buying a new one. What I don't want to do is buy one that isn't needed.
Based on my symptoms above, does anyone have a good starting point or a good test to narrow things down?
I'm going out this morning to trace the cable path for kinks, nicks, or overly aggressive tie wraps (I'll replace them w/ velcro one-wraps).
Thx