I have a new boat that gives me depth at the console when idling around but I lose the depth when I get
up on pad. Any idea why that would be happening?
I have a new boat that gives me depth at the console when idling around but I lose the depth when I get
up on pad. Any idea why that would be happening?
Let's see a picture of the transducer on the boat.
I have a Lowrance 3-in-1 on the back and then it has a thru-hull transducer mounted in the bottom. Getting a picture of it would be very difficult. I know it is down there becaus the dealership confirmed it was. At first we thought they hadn’t installed one but when to install one they found out that it was already there.
Then find the BLUE plug that should be plugged into the back of your Lowrance BLUE PLUG. Then do AUTO CONFIGURE that should trip the unit to read the thru transducer.
Last edited by kennybryan; 03-20-2023 at 11:02 PM.
I’ll probably screw up the wording, but there is a multi-source and single source option. I “think” I had to put mine on single source. I had to “stop” sonar on the 3-1 2d transducer and then selected the “shoot through hull” as the primary 2d. 3-1 in the black port and shoot through in the sonar port on back.
Mine was so jacked with it trying to use both 2d sources, finally got it working right.
Yes AUTO CONFIGURE and see what happens.
my boat lives 1 1/2 hours away and I don’t know when I’ll be back down there. Hopefully, Kenny’s auto configure will sort it all out for you.
If by chance, I make it down there this weekend, I’ll take a pic of it and the settings. I thought I had screwed up majorly at first with the issues I was having on plane.
If this boat is used and the shoot through was already installed. It’s possible that it’s the wrong pin (a 7 pin), the Lives now use a 9 pin and if by chance, you have the old 7 pin. You would need an adapter. If you don’t see the blue sonar cable hooked up on the back, that might be why, it’s the wrong one.
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here’s a pic from the internet. “Shoot through hull” goes to the blue port and 3-1 goes to the black port on the far right.
Mine was losing depth, the transducer was to far forward in the bilge and at full trim the boat was lifting and it would stop reading, moved the transducer back 4 inches and corrected my problem. It was a factory install and worked fine until I started fooling with jack plate to get more lift out of boat for better perfomance.
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