Wayne Purdum
Charlottesville, Va.
Helix 12 CHIRP MEGA+ SI G3N/G4N, Helix 15 CHIRP MEGA SI+ GPS G4N
SOLIX 12 SI/G3, Helix 8 CHIRP MEGA SI+ G4N, Ultrex 80/LINK, MEGA360,
MEGA LIVE, LIVE TL
So installed 1.83 on my gen 1 di 9. I don’t have the di installed I just have 2d going through us2. And it worked amazing today. So that you know I did a reset after the install.
Wayne Purdum
Charlottesville, Va.
Helix 12 CHIRP MEGA+ SI G3N/G4N, Helix 15 CHIRP MEGA SI+ GPS G4N
SOLIX 12 SI/G3, Helix 8 CHIRP MEGA SI+ G4N, Ultrex 80/LINK, MEGA360,
MEGA LIVE, LIVE TL
Fished for 2 solid days and only got aggravated by the fact that after awhile you couldn't mark waypoints from any of the sonar screens.
Pressing the directional button only gave the reject beeping sound.
Tried a few things but rebooting seemed to be the only temporary fix and not sure what is causing it yet.
Also couldn't get the full 360 view to come up but always had the 360/map combo view.
After deploying 360 from the map combo view, then the full screen 360 view shows up.
Always something new with each update...
Console [HELIX 10MSI G3N || HELIX 10MSI G3N]
Bow [HELIX 12 CHIRP SI GPS G2N] || RC-2] || [HELIX 10MSI G4N] || [M360 UNIVERSAL MOUNT] || [Mega Live]
ULTERRA80/US2/IPLINK-60" BT || 2xAS ETH 5PXG || Victron IP67 12V/25A || [NoCo Genius GX2440 24V/40A]
[X2 GROUP 31] x 3 || [Battleborn 31 lithium]
Alumacraft Voyageur 175/Yamaha VF115LA
Yeah Wayne I did
Went out again today they definitely detuned these units at least with the 360. Everything else worked great but not sure I like how the 360 is detuned. Fished a area that always required me to run sensitivity under 5 but today I had to run it around 17 to get a decent reading. Seems I lose a lot of crisp picture after about 40’
Nitro z21
Has anyone noticed after installing 1.84 that it takes quite a bit longer for the unit to regain the sonar (DI & SI) signal after you take off and sit back down? Was much better on the previous code set.
Wayne Purdum
Charlottesville, Va.
Helix 12 CHIRP MEGA+ SI G3N/G4N, Helix 15 CHIRP MEGA SI+ GPS G4N
SOLIX 12 SI/G3, Helix 8 CHIRP MEGA SI+ G4N, Ultrex 80/LINK, MEGA360,
MEGA LIVE, LIVE TL
Yes I did realize 1-10 does nothing. The way they detuned the sensitivity though I don’t think I’ll ever need under 15. I was fishing concrete and steel sea walls. As I said I use to need to run extremely low sensitivity but now it’s almost not enough sensitivity
Nitro z21
I have my MEGA G2NL SI unit running on the correct Y cable and now wonder if the issue of loosing bottom is my bilge 2 D transducer. It's been working great on the other birds that I have had in the last couple of years. I guess the old standard round transducer puck with the y cable will handle all this new CHIRP/MEGA signal. Would that be an issue? I have not seen any talk of a special bilge transducer.
Wayne Purdum
Charlottesville, Va.
Helix 12 CHIRP MEGA+ SI G3N/G4N, Helix 15 CHIRP MEGA SI+ GPS G4N
SOLIX 12 SI/G3, Helix 8 CHIRP MEGA SI+ G4N, Ultrex 80/LINK, MEGA360,
MEGA LIVE, LIVE TL
So, have they fixed the bugs in the newest update yet? I want to update my units so I can have the map, SI and DI screen that was supposedly added with the update.
Wayne Purdum
Charlottesville, Va.
Helix 12 CHIRP MEGA+ SI G3N/G4N, Helix 15 CHIRP MEGA SI+ GPS G4N
SOLIX 12 SI/G3, Helix 8 CHIRP MEGA SI+ G4N, Ultrex 80/LINK, MEGA360,
MEGA LIVE, LIVE TL
Gotcha. So, it will be a different version and not just a correction to 1.84.
Another bug, originally introduced in version 1.64 and not fixed in version 1.83 on the Helix 10 Gen 1 and maybe others: In the sonar zoom view, you cannot turn off or control the RTS window. It shows even if you don't want it, taking up screen space.
Also after updating to 1.83, when booting up my two networked Helix 10 units and letting them settle down and share sonar, the unit not connected to the transducer does not have a sonar main menu tab; it only has a sonar x-press menu. I have to reboot that unit before it will display the main sonar menu. (My network setup is set to share sonar as before.)
Wayne Purdum
Charlottesville, Va.
Helix 12 CHIRP MEGA+ SI G3N/G4N, Helix 15 CHIRP MEGA SI+ GPS G4N
SOLIX 12 SI/G3, Helix 8 CHIRP MEGA SI+ G4N, Ultrex 80/LINK, MEGA360,
MEGA LIVE, LIVE TL