I've had two Garmin Echomap Ultra 126sv units (bow & console), an LVS-34, and a Steadycast heading sensor installed and networked on my boat for about 18 months. All have been updated to the latest software revisions. Everything has been working normally with no issues up until today.
A few minutes after booting up everything on the lake this morning, I got a message on my console unit to the effect of "lost communication with heading sensor." It was a bit perplexing, but I just continued on and fished all morning. Everything seemed to work fine. When I got back to the dock around mid-day, I went to power down everything and something strange happened. I hit the power button on the console unit, then hit the POWER icon and selected "power off devices." Normally this shuts everything down, but today it shut down the bow unit (and the attached Livescope) but did not power off the console unit. The console unit showed messages like "sonar signal lost" and "Panoptics signal lost" but the unit stayed powered up. I tried pressing and holding the power button, as well as repeatedly selecting the POWER icon and "power off devices" with no success. After ~10 minutes of trying, I went back by the batteries and flipped the clean power circuit breaker to shut down the console unit. Very strange. Thinking it was just a strange glitch, I went back out fishing this afternoon and booted up the system while idling out of the harbor. I essentially repeated the entire pattern above.
Anyone seen anything like this before? Any suggestions before I call Garmin Tech Support?
Thanks!
-Robert