The water column is cloudy on the SI and DI screens on my HB 899. Have played with settings some but stay closed to basic setting found on here. Any ideas?
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The water column is cloudy on the SI and DI screens on my HB 899. Have played with settings some but stay closed to basic setting found on here. Any ideas?
Are you usng the stock xducer that came with the 899...??
Has the water column been cloudy since day 1 or did this just start...??
Can you post a screenshot of what you are seeing...??
Rickie
Thank you Rickie. It is a new unit. The first couple times I went out it was clear. It is the stock Xducer. Will work on a screen shot.
There are times (especially this time of year)...that algae blooms can totally obliterate the screen with cloudy looking stuff...Quote:
Originally Posted by johndeere5045
And sometimes it's worse in some parts of the lake but not in others...
Just a thought...
Still...post some screenshots for diagnosis...
Rickie
I think Rickie is on the money, noticed last weekend it was getting bad here. Seems at night in the summer it is terrible here in oklahoma. Like he said post up some pics!! We love pics!
Thanks guys. I'm n south Alabama and pollen is bad!!!! I will try and post pics tomorrow.
If you're seeing green floating at the water's edge at the boat ramp...you have a pollen or algae bloom going on...Quote:
Originally Posted by johndeere5045
But still post some pix (as there are a few reported cloudy problems ...at least in the 899's with the XHS 9 HDSI 180 T)..
Rickie
If you'll take a look at the thread entitled "my opinion on the Onix" there are a number of images posted there that show what I think johndeere is referring to. Especially in some of the DI images. Some pics have it, some don't. Go to page 17 and see the Down Imaging pics posted by Kosmo and see if that is the same thing you are seeing on your 899.
Thank you Brown Trout. That's exactly what I have. Now how do I fix it? Is it pollen ?
If it's algae I don't think there is a fix. Your unit and settings are fine. The unit is just doing what it's supposed to do which is to display what it "sees" in the water. I've seen that on my home lake in years past and realized it was an algae bloom and would clear up once it's ran it's course. Not all sections of the lake have this bloom at the same time. Move to another section of the lake and see if it clears up.
You can sometimes verify an algae or pollen bloom by looking at the 200kHz 2d view...
If it shows ALOT more "clutter" than what you normally see at that same sensitivity setting...it is most likely pollen or algae...
I do like Trout mentioned...move to a different part of the lake...if it clears up...there's nothing wrong with the unit...
Rickie