Lowrance help

I'm having a problem with the depth finder on my elite 7 hdi if you go faster than 21 mph it won't tell you a depth and twenty minutes or so after you sit down to start fishing the depth will go from 28 ft of water ( using today as an example) down to 0- 2 ft I don't get it because if you turn the unit off and back on it will read the depth it was before it messed up than twenty minutes or so later it goes haywire again any help will be appreciated thanks

have you uploaded the latest update ?? 1.8

I guess I'm not sure how i will have to read the book the only thing I knew I could update was my navionics chip

I had similar issue. Mine did this but just sporadically. Not ever 20 minutes. I used a brush on a pole and cleaned off the transducer. It hasn't done it since. Do you dock or launch ? May try that.

All you need is a micro SD card


click on software updates at the bottom right of this page and there is the file you need and instructions it takes less than 5 minutes to download it and install it on your unit.

http://www.lowrance.com/en-US/Produc...HDI-en-us.aspx


it cured several minor glitches with mine.

I dock I will have to try that and see what happens thanks is there an easy way to do the updates

Thanks fire tiger I will do that can you notice a difference

Yes you can tell the difference. That's the only way I know to update your operating software on it. I ck every month or so to see if there are any new updates. Like I said it painless takes less than 5 minutes to do it. You download the update file on the sd card put in your unit and power it on and it reboots itself.



Just be sure to look what version your running, maybe yours was updated already mine wasn't and I bought it 4 months ago

I don't know how far you live from a Bass Pro,but if you take the unit in they will update it for free while you shop [just the head,no wires or transducer] even if you didn't buy it from them

I purchased mine around the same time I will have to get that done and in two weeks when I'm up,at the lake I can run it over to bass pro hopefully that helps because its just frustrating when you pay that much for something and it doesn't work right

I think this maybe be installation issue not software. If the transducer gets air between it and the water it will do this exact thing. So many times with in a set time frame it does this. That's why at 20 mph you are running out of water the transducer needs to be in the water on plain... this is why lower your transducer it will fix the problem

Thanks skipper9 so putting the transducer on more of angle instead of flat will fix this or do I have to move the whole mount down

No I think it will need to be moved down... when you are on plain air is getting between the tranducer and the water... move the whole mount down.. it will fix the problem... when you are sitting down and fishing it will cause the same problem in ruff seas... because it coming out of the water....

Ok thanks skipper 9 I will do that when I pull it out around the end of September thanks again for everybodies help

FYI, another new update out for the Elite7