On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 21:28:25 -0500, "Habda"
wrote:
I have a problem with my huminbird fish finder, maybe someone could suggest
a solution for me.

It's a wide portrait with a tri-beam transducer attached on the transom. The
transducer is detected by the fish finder, and I have reset the unit to the
factory defaults and tried different settings to try & get it to work
properly. The water temperature gauge works correctly.

If I am in what I know to be about 15ft of water... the depth that is
displayed numerically is like... 549ft or so... give or take a few 10ft. If
I set the depth range to 30ft..... the terrain that is graphed on the screen
is what I believe to be correct... meaning that the bottom shows to be in
the middle of the screen.... 15ft. This works at other depths that I have
tried. The speed also shows 0.0 always as well.

Hopefully this was explained correctly.... maybe someone has a suggestion I
could try. I'd sure appreciate it!
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Some things you might try to see if it makes a difference:

Decrease or increase sensitivity.

Explicitly select wide beam and/or narrow beam.

Check transducer mounting - should be about even with the bottom of
the hull.

Try unplugging and replugging your display head a couple of times to
clean the contacts.

Turn the unit off and on to reset it.

No guaranty, but these sometimes work on my Hummingbird.