Hey all,

 

New poster here - hope this is the right place to post.

 

I have a 2 - Lowrance HDS 7 in my boat. I am losing the depth display when in rough water. It used to act up at speed as well. I have swapped them around so I'm fairly positive it's in the transducer. Any ideas?

It's not the transducer.  As far as I know, this was/is a common problem AFTER the update was performed.  Both of mine were just fine BEFORE I had this stupid update done and now they lose depth and sometimes shut down and restart while I'm running.  I mainly run mine as chart plotter and fish my flashers anyway so I'm not bothered by it quite so much but I do know the frustration.

 

IF you are certain it's the transducer, go ahead and replace but I'm just saying it might not be.

That sounds about right. Any way to revert to an older software? Or is Lowrance pretty good about pushing out updates when there are issues?

I don't know if a hard reset would do it or not, maybe?  You could try contacting Lowrance for their solution.  Unless mine gets worse I'm not messing with it anymore.

Shutting down the unit usually fixes it.

If not, disconect the power source for a couple secs.

Works every time

On 9/6/2017 at 3:27 PM, NHBull said:

Shutting down the unit usually fixes it.

If not, disconect the power source for a couple secs.

Works every time

No, it doesn't.  Not with mine anyway