HDS5 problem

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Originally Posted by 45user

So I was out Rockfishing at NPH and my HDS5 acted up. It would only read water temp. Depth was all over and sometimes blank. It was basically not reading anything down. I called lowrance and very unhelpful guy answered and told me that I need a new transducer. So anybody have any idea what might be causing this?
Thank you!
45

Man, the same thing was happening to my 7HDI! Chart plotter was fine, temp was good, depth was bouncing and the image (sounder) was pretty much blank..wonder how long the warranty is.