BoatNoobie
Petty Officer 1st Class
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- Jun 17, 2009
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So I got a Lowrance LMS-522C mounted on my bow. It has a PDT-WBL transducer pod mounted on the bow trolling motor.
GPS works fine for the most part. It is sometimes slow at locking on position when you first turn it on. As long as nothing is over the display unit, it will lock on in a min or 2.
Temp reading works fine.
But sonar/depth reading goes wacky. It'll be working just fine, and then all of a sudden, I'll get a depth reading of 1.8ft and nothing is on sonar. It'll stay like this for a bit, then I'll get normal readings again. And repeat, same issue. Goes back and forth. No pattern to it. Doesnt matter if I'm in 10ft of water or 30ft.
There is nothing stuck on the transducer when this happens. It's clean. It doesn't matter if the trolling motor is being used or not at the time.
I get a steady reading from my Humminbird unit on the console during the bonker stages.
I played with the sonar settings thinking if I changed it to "shallow" it would be better. I also updated the software on the unit to the latest.
Is this a transducer issue or something worse off?
GPS works fine for the most part. It is sometimes slow at locking on position when you first turn it on. As long as nothing is over the display unit, it will lock on in a min or 2.
Temp reading works fine.
But sonar/depth reading goes wacky. It'll be working just fine, and then all of a sudden, I'll get a depth reading of 1.8ft and nothing is on sonar. It'll stay like this for a bit, then I'll get normal readings again. And repeat, same issue. Goes back and forth. No pattern to it. Doesnt matter if I'm in 10ft of water or 30ft.
There is nothing stuck on the transducer when this happens. It's clean. It doesn't matter if the trolling motor is being used or not at the time.
I get a steady reading from my Humminbird unit on the console during the bonker stages.
I played with the sonar settings thinking if I changed it to "shallow" it would be better. I also updated the software on the unit to the latest.
Is this a transducer issue or something worse off?