Lowrance Elite 5 sounder reading
Submitted by Tank on Mon, 2012-08-06 19:24
I have a Low Elite 5 sounder and have managed to get a great picture when working shallow water (after moving transducer) but now cannot get a reading past 20m. Picture just shows a black line...no details and as I work deeper soundings stop working and loose bottom on screen. A very frustrating thing getting to a stage where I may as well stop using the fish finder component just use the GPS and get a new sounder.Any ideas?
fishy fingers
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check your depth range
you may need to set it to auto wher it may be set to 20m max
Tank
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Yea it is set to auto..is
Yea it is set to auto..is anyone else having probs with the same sounder?
davidbland50
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Set up
Not trying to tell u how to suck eggs, but have u made sure the correct listing of your transducer is in your setup. I did that with my HDS5 and it is amazing how much better the fishfinder/depthsounder worked. Check your manual as to what transducer u r running.
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fishy fingers
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If it's like the hds
It will be on a sticker where it plugs into the unit
davidbland50
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That too
That too
Wherever you go, there you are
Jayden20
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Also change from shallow
Also change from shallow water use to deep water use.. ... Not sure if the elites have that though
Hang On
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Elite 5
I had a similar problem and I did a Factory Restore from the menu and that fixed it
Cause life's too short!