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It's the unit with forward and down view that you change with adjusting the position if the transducer. It plugs to the graph by ethernet and it is powered by 12v. I used it for the first time yesterday and I really liked it. Here's the question. When I got ready to go home I noticed that I never hooked the ground wire up on the PS22. Where did it get its power?
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Are you running it off of your starting battery? Any chance your boat is grounded and it was touching the metal somewhere?Quote:
Originally Posted by catchNgrease
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It is running off the crank battery. I have seen signs that my hull was grounded. I think that the way the installer made the bow navigation lights work. But the black wire from the transducer was not touching anything. I am sure of it.
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A metal boat is always grounded when you bolt the motor to it. (If its electric start)
That is the only way i can think of that it received power. Ps22 wont even talk to the unit without power.Quote:
Originally Posted by catchNgrease
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I have to agree. When I get back home tonight I'm going to look at the ground wire again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kevin22
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I tried to but when I cut the unit on it said the transducer was too cold...I didn't think that through. It was 3 degreesQuote:
Originally Posted by catchNgrease
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On a pole or your motor? Lower into a bucket of water?Quote:
Originally Posted by catchNgrease
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Finally got it warm enough with the sun. The black wire in front of the screen is the ground wire from the PS22Quote:
Originally Posted by Kevin22
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I have no idea how it is working, other than the transducer must somehow be grounded to your boat. I wouldnt have thought it would work that way with all the shielding
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The transducer is hanging is hanging from plastic
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Use a multimeter on continuity setting and check to see if the black wire is grounded to the boat/battery. It kind of has to be, but just to double check.
My mount is plastic also, im looking at it right now trying to figure out how it could possibly be grounded. Theres obviously a metal bolt going through it and into a nut inside the mount, but I don't see how that could ground the ducer... The housing seems like some sort of plasticy resin material anyways. The wiring is double shielded so that cant be grounding. Its all moot anyways unless its on a metal pole, TM shafts arent conductive.
I do think it pulls a tiny bit of power through the data cable on the tiny red/black cables, but not enough to run the ducer.
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