Thread: Humminbird transducer question

Xducer piezoes can wear over time ... (Piezoes physically vibrate ...and vibration can cause wear) ...

Have you tried upping the sensitivity setting ...??

Can you do a Restore Default ...??

Rickie

rnvinc, I have tried some by upping the sensitivity and have restored default quite a few times. I have been trying to see fish angles, jigs, and could not so I wind up going to default again and again and just looking at fish symbols. They tell me that fish symbols are not hardly ever real fish. I have read were the hb 565 is supposed to be able to see jigs below the boat.

I know some of ya'll had one of these Humminbird 565 or 717 with 60° - 20° transducers at one time or the other I just need to know am I just spinning my wheels with these things or not. I know they want show anything like the new expensive ones do . But am I just not setting the settings right or what. I just don't want to spend all my time on the water fooling with ff instead of fishing . Thanks for any information or just what do you think.

Try these ...(if available in the menu)

*200kHz only (unit should scroll faster at 200kHz only) ...
*Noise filter = Off (unless there is interference that needs filtering) ...
*Surface clutter = as high as you can stand it (higher shows more clutter) ...
*Sensitivity = as high as you can stand it (higher shows more clutter) ...
*Chart Speed = 10

Can you post some pix of the screen you are seeing ...??

Rickie

I will take some pictures next time out on water. Cold now but I will try what you told me to do just as soon as I can get back on the water and get back with you thanks for the information and any other information you can give me.

Try cross-testing with someone else that is running a Humminbird unit that has the 200/83kHz 2D sonar (which is most of our units). This will show where the problem is: unit or transducer.

Thanks for the ideas on how to see fish arches and how to trouble shoot my fish finders. I don't think it is the transducer as I have one on the trolling motor and one on the back of the boat and they do seem to work. I think I was setting some of the setting the wrong way. I was going lower on surface clutter instead of higher and was not going high enough on sensitivity and chart speed. I also needed to use inverse instead of structure. I have not been able to get back out on the water yet, but as soon as I can I am going to try every thing ya'll told me and thanks again. I also found this on the humminbird web site it may help me and others here is the web site: http://www.humminbird.com/Category/S...AQ/FishArches/

Ok it warmed up today got back out on the lake and played around with my fish finders. You all were right thats what it was I cut off the little fishes and set it like you all said and I am seeing a lot more. May take more time to learn those fish arches though. But I do see my fish habitat a lot better and I do see some slight arches and small lines. Seen some big globs suspended above the bottom I am thinking they may be shad. If I run into more problems I know were to find the answers here at crappie.com. Just wanted to tell all of you thanks for the help. Be safe and good luck fishing.