Thread: HD-S8 questions...help please

I just installed my structure scan yesterday thanks for the tip also. Waiting on my HDS 10 to arrive.

https://mail.google.com/mail/h/105ql...disp=inline&zw Got this screen shot from another board. I think :D:D:D the DownScan will show fish!!! <*)}}}><

Was able to get out on the river last week and took a couple snap shots. After getting some help here on the forum I selected the correct transducer from the menu and this seemed to help a bunch. The pics still seem to be Blobbish under 20' or so but are acceptible deeper than that. Wish I would have gotten a few better pics to post here but this is what I was able to get at the time.

After rerouting my TD wires all by themselves( 2' away from everything else) and running dedicated power wires to both the lss-1 and the hds-8 I still have a small amount of interference on the sidescan. This happens when the engine is at idle. If I throttle up a bit it goes away.Plugs are resistor and I don't know how to tell if I have a alternator filter or not. It only irritates me because I know it's not supposed to be there...lol. It is easy to look through the noise. I may call suzuki today and see if they have a filter. I think with a little more fine tuning on the graph I will be able to get it where I want it. Thanks to all for the help !




The second shot shows some bridge pilings on the ohio river. I would have expected these to look much larger as I cruised past them!

I don't know about the HDS, models but I have the HB 997 ,the transducer being set parrellel to the bottom with people in the boat is critical , that made all the differance .

I don't know anything about the new HDS but hope to have one someday. Anyway on one of the pictures,I see a 91% senstively setting,now on regular fish sonars this would be too high of a setting,now like I said don't know anything about the new HDS but could this be showing too much.
LittleJohn

Originally Posted by LittleJohn

I don't know anything about the new HDS but hope to have one someday. Anyway on one of the pictures,I see a 91% senstively setting,now on regular fish sonars this would be too high of a setting,now like I said don't know anything about the new HDS but could this be showing too much.
LittleJohn

Good question John !! With my old lowrance I normally ran around 70%. I was paying more attention to the bottom fill of yellow (amount of yellow on the bottom)while setting the sensitivity and not the fish. The colors that you see on the bottom is what I was used to on the old graph......still dosn't mean it is correct !!

1.crappie on a stump. 2.pvc on a bridge.

Hey Kat,
First off, where is your transducer mounted? Is it outside the boat or epoxied in the bottom? The reason I'm asking this is because it looks like your transducer is not getting a clear shot. The first clue to this is that you are loosing your signal at 25 MPH. I can run 60 MPH and not loose my depth reading. I couldn't do this with any other of the Lowrance units I used in the past. I epoxied the transducer (skimmer) in the bottom of my boat and this thing reads perfect. Your pictures look like the transducer (if epoxied) is not mounted correctly. You should be getting very clean, clear pictures. Your sidescan (as I'm sure you know) is using a different transducer and it is getting a clear shot with nothing between it and the water. You said you mounted this transducer in the same spot as your old one...if epoxied, you may have not got the spot cleaned off enough or you have air pockets in your epoxy. If its mounted outside the boat and all your settings are correct, you may have a bad transducer.