Any ideas for a troublesome sounder??
Submitted by wide open on Sat, 2010-05-01 17:04
hey everyone were having some sounder troubles the souder is a furuno LS4100
the problem was my grandad for the 1st time with this echo sounder(we havnet touched any settings) went to try toi locat a spot in roughly 50 metres and around 25k's out.
the echo souders problem was it would go to a max of 45 metres roughly and not show any deeper or any rocks/strucre/bottom type etc just one long straight line
it works fine in shallower water
and he certainly went deeper than 40 metres as he eneded going out maybe 45-50 km out so that eliminate that possibility
so what settting do we have to adjust??, not a lot of experience with echo sounders
HuggyB
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sounds simple
but did he change the depth range?
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wide open
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yeah i think its
simple like that but
he like all the others from his generation suck with electronics hah so he doesnt know anything about the sounder and i dont know anything either lol
so i think all i have to do is press that +/- sign with "range" on it
i'am sure thats the prob
just can get annoying for the first time in 25 years he goes out there looking for a spot friends gave him and the souder stuffs up.
and plus he ended up 20km further out than he intended haha
grayzeee
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http://safemanuals.com/user-g
http://safemanuals.com/user-guide-instructions-owner-manual/FURUNO/LS-4100-_E
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
wide open
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thanks everone
for the help
just dhu it
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auto ranging
see if the unit has auto depth ranging , save at lot of headaches