Furuno 585
Submitted by doublej on Thu, 2014-10-02 08:56
Up at Jurien Bay
Pulled 2 Dhus & a couple of baldies of this spot.
sorry about the photo quality.
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RobertMc
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Nice fish there jas well
Nice fish there jas well done, how's the weather been up there for ya? Good luck with the next couple days mate.
doublej
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Date Joined: 08/07/09
Weather
The weather has been shit Rob.
If it's not the wind it's the swell.
Yesterday was the fist good day.
Howling northerly today, so the boats staying dry.
Dhuvinile
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Date Joined: 13/05/12
DoublejHow did you get your
Doublej
How did you get your range to go by 5m increments? ive got the 585, tried the shift funtion but had no luck with small changes like you seem to have set up
RobertMc
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Dhuvinile you can set all
Dhuvinile you can set all that up in your settings, you can set your range to watever increments you want. I think if you go into your menu and scroll down a drop down box will come up and it's all in there
eziliving
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Dhuvinile all you do is
Dhuvinile all you do is adjust your range to like twenty when fishing deeper than 20 meters then use the shift function until the sounder picks up the bottom again. the smaller the range the more shifting you will have to do if the ground you are fishing is very undulating. it looks like Double J's range is set on 20. if you are in 40 meters and you adjust the range to 20 your sounder will stop reading until you use the shift function as Rob discribed. if you are in the forty meter range you would have to use the shift function and adjsut it to 25meters that way the bottom would be reading approximately 5meters of the bottom of your screen if that makes sense.
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janz
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Faulty 585
I have a Furuno 585 (approx. 3 years old) always used properly and kept in top condition. All of a sudden, the high tension circuit faulted, and Taylor Marine quoted for a complete replacement circuit board - but for the same price as a brand new unit !!
Doesn't sound like the sort of quality/quality assurance everyone talks about with Furuno. Can't afford AUD $2,000, so I'm stuck ! Anyone else had a problem with the 585?
j a n z
scubafish
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Demersal finfish
Closed season 15 Oct – 15 Dec (inclusive)
True OR False ?
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z00m
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Original post was 2nd
Original post was 2nd October - what's the problem?
RobertMc
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Hahahah some people hey
Hahahah some people hey zoom, guess who looks like the nob now..... Maybe do some homework champ, or atleast read the post before accusing people if doing the wrong thing....
scubafish
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Back in time
NO Problem then!
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sea-kem
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I've had a few probs with
I've had a few probs with mine lately not wanting to switch on, then after a while no problem. Checked all the connections and back of unit plugs and all looks fine, hope it's not on it's way out.
Love the West!
Bluetonic
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Fingers crossed your unit is
Fingers crossed your unit is okay Andy but I had the same problem a few years ago and eventually the unit just wouldn't turn on in the end. I took mine to 'Ocean to Earth' in Bunbury who are great at repairing this sort of stuff but even they couldn't fix the problem in the main board. However they did say they could bypass the problem by hard wiring the unit in.
Sea conditions wouldn't treat any hard wired electronics kindly in my boat so I opted to spend the money and buy the new 587.
Blue Sky, Blue Water, Bluetonic!
sea-kem
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Cheers mate, fingers and
Cheers mate, fingers and toes crossed lol. I'll try the new power cable option as Jeff mentioned below.
Love the West!
optimont
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Date Joined: 14/09/13
furuno problem
My 620 just died as well,would turn on but only show start up screen and not respond to any amount of button pushing. Now have a new 627.
snappermiles
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hey sea kem
try getting a new power cable mine done a similar thing and it was a faulty wire in the wiring harness works like a dream now
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sea-kem
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Cheers Jeff will give that a
Cheers Jeff will give that a go.
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RobertMc
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Mine did the same
Mine did the same snappermiles, and a new cable fixed it for me too
fisho71
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transducer
Do all the 585's come with 1kw transducer? Bought a boat with one just trying to work it out at the moment. How do you tell?
Cheers.
Tim
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No
The transducer normally comes separately.
If its about the size of a small shoebox it will be a 1kw
fisho71
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cheers
Thanks found it's a 600watt. Also i never see any fish on the bottom i know there are fish around. Just see the reef but nothing above it. I have it on auto gain. Is there anything i need to do?
doublej
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Try these settings
Still tweaking mine all the time, but these settings work alright.
Pic advance:......2/1
Zoom mode:......Bottom lock
Shift:................Set to 0mtr change manually as you fish deeper
Interference:......Auto
Color erase:.......15%
Clutter:..............10%
White line:..........0%
Smoothing:.........On
Tvg:...................Med change to high after 100m
Tx power:...........Auto
Colors:...............16
tx rate 10
Hopefully some of the guru's can add a bit more input or tweak these settings some more.
Cheers
fisho71
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cool
Cheers hopefully head out next week. Its in auto range also. Heard manual is better usually only up to 30 metres at the moment anyway. More complicated than the smaller color sounders. Guess it needs more fine tunning and hopefully gets some better results. But if anyone else has input would be great.