800khz problem on Humminbird 899

Sent my HB 899 in for the 800khz repair on Tuesday, Sept 23 and got it back on Tuesday, Sept 30 (one week turn around time). Just got to go on lake this morning to try it out and see how they done. I think they solved the problem and it has a better pic than before. Anyway here are a couple pic of 455 khz and 800khz from before repair and a couple after the repair. See what you all think. Is it better in you opinion are not. The before and and after pics are from two different lakes so take that into consideration.

Before

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After (different lake) This is of a bream bed on a shallow 8ft lake

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I've got to send mine in for that fix. Thanks for posting

Looks better to me. Bunch of fish in last pic. You catch any?

Cray I think those bright blips were stumps. I was in a channel and you can see the shadow the bright blips are casting. Didn't fish much , just playing with DF to see how it done. Did catch 21 Tuesday down there though. The lake is down around five feet for aquatic control.

Ya got any snapshots from the unit ...??

(You can take snapshots while the recording is playing back on the unit)...

Rickie

rnvinc I was too busy playing to take any. I'll try to get some next time out and post them.

J_ROW, what is the 800khz repair? I bought a 899ci last month and although I don't see any issues with mine I want to make sure there isn't any issues with mine.
Thanks in advance.

kickingback

800 khz was washed out (no details). Don''t know but the new ones may have the fix already. If you have not changed out the compact transducer that came with the unit for the longer high def transducer you'll never see the problem as the one that comes with it will not do the 800 khz but only do 455 khz.

Thanks sir. I did buy the 800 khz ducer and I do not see any wash out in mine so I must be ok. Appreciate it again.

That'd be great if they are finally getting that fixed

Sent my 1199 in on Thursday for loss of 2d and fish ID only showed orange fish 200 kHz no blue fish 83 kHz. I have the washout issue also and asked about that and was told they are working on a update for it instead of sending it back. I have a 1198 and plugged it to the 1199's ducer and was fine so know it was the head unit. The CSR said they probably wouldn't fix the washout on my unit but I put it down on my issues list that you send in with Id # and unit anyway.

Sent my 899 in today. Humminbird service is the best.

Mine still sucks on 800 after sending it back in. Run it on 3 sensitivity and 20 on contrast to make anything out. Quick turn around time though 8 total days on shipping and sub par repair. As soon as bugs are worked out on the Onix this bad boy will be for sale.