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    Bad transducer?

    I have gotten to use the active target now 3 times and I am realizing I cannot see hardly anything including bottom past 40 feet out, the top 30% or so of the screen is black and has no feed back past 20 feet or so even when I turn the contrast all the way up. It is nearly impossible to see my bait even when dropping it directly in front of my the transducer. I have about 8 inches up from the head of my ghost. I just put a new agm x2 battery and 8 and 10 guage wiring for all my units. voltage read 12.8 on all units. I have adjusted the transducer a click up and a click down from the forward position and this only made the image worse. Is there anything I am missing or could this be a bad transducer?

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    Should I try moving the transducer further up the shift? Stable view has been on the entire time so maybe I can mess with this but I know I've seen multiple videos of people watching a bait fall at 60+ feet from the boat. This is not even an option due to the screen being blacked out until about half way down in the water column.

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    #3
    Mine looked strange in forward mode after I switched to scout and then back to forward. I then realized I somehow went back to forward on the wrong side from scout and that messed up the image in a way which might fit your description. A slice or two of the forward image where missing. i then went back to scout on from there to forward on the other side and everything was fine again.

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    #4
    any other ideas?

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    The first picture is the problem I was speaking of with a slice of the screen seemingly missing. The second picture it without the stableview on. Everytime I turned it back on the same thing happened. Any ideas?

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    #7
    You might try updating your software. With the latest version (20.3), I think the direction indicator is in the lower left. Maybe someone can confirm.