David,

Your splice may, in fact, be fine but your depthsounder transmitter may be
stuffed.

When the staple went into the cable it probably shorted the transducer
connection. Instead of pumping a few hundred watts into a transducer with
an impedance of a few hundred ohms the depth sounder tried to pump this
power into a short and may have damaged the transmitter.

Bert




"David" wrote in message
...
Hi all.. So, while installing my transducer ( DST50 Standard Horizon) I
put
a staple from a staple gun into the cable. Brilliant, I know. Of course
the depth finder stopped reading depths so.. I'm guessing the cable is
very
sensitive and I wont be able to repair the cable by cutting and splicing
it
can I? I gave this a shot with no luck but I just did a quick cut &
splice
job to see if I would get any sort of reading... Shielding and other
factors to be considered I assume?

Thanks,
David