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My Hummingbird up front always worked perfect. It was mounted on the front deck. I took it to BPS and had them put it on a 13" Balzout. Very professional looking job but now every time I step on the button the depth changes dramatically, goes nuts. Take foot off the pedal and perfect. Connection problem, interference, what? Chime in with any and all sugguestions, thanks.
Electrical I'd guess. I have same problem. When not trolling or on full speed no problem but anything else I get interference. I gave up trying to clear it.
What you describe sounds like you have a variable speed trolling motor. I would guess that there is no problem at 100% but anything less creates the problem. If that is the case you are getting a pulse frequency as the motor turns on and off to regulate the speed. There are several possible solutions to try. PM me if you want and I will call you.
There was never a problem until I moved it off the deck and on the Balzout. I wonder if they had to splice the cable or something?
Even getting wires moved around could do it. If they happened to move wires around under bow panel to gain more reach/length and got them laid against the power cable of the trolling motor. I would pull the panel off and try and separate the wires.
Sounds to me like they had to do some residing and got it hooked to your trolling battery. Check connection and make sure it is hooked to cranking battery.
That coming from a guy who did not even install my new units. Maybe my electronics installer "CrappieThumperMK" will have an idea. That dang half day of fishing with me got expensive didn't it??? Them Balzout mounts are sweet.
Hooked mine to cracking battery for same fix.
I'm the kinda guy who would take it back to BPS and tell them they need to lick their calf over again.
peculiarmike, that's what I did today, we will see what happens.
Dex Shane had the same problem on his boat with a Hummingbird. We install a noise filter over the cable as close to the unit as possible and it fixed it. Bought it radio shack for about $10. Just clam shells over the cables
I think Humminbird was supplying the cable with the ferrite installed at no charge to folks who were having the problem, but I'd almost bet that the installer moved your cable too close to the TM power and if you get it away from that, you will go back to good readings
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I tried but still couldn't hang with Cliff and Harold.
Ok fellas, the Hummingbird up front is working perfect. Turns out BPS hooked it up to one of the switches up front for a power source and that's what was causing all the interference.. Jeff (jigfisherx) came by and helped me figure things out, thanks Jeff. The good news is they left the cable going back to the battery in place so it was an easy fix. We checked it out and no interference. Hummingbird sent me a Ferrite Ring for the transducer cable and a new Power Cable with a built in filter. We decided to put them on since I had them anyway. Used it today and it worked perfect. It showed me all the places we fished had no fish. :ThumbsUp Thanks again Jeff for the help.
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I have a 596 DI-HD and had same problem called humminbird and they sent me a pwr cable with noise filter and now works fine.