its only for a few minutes til we find next pile but my Lowrance Elite HDI takes quite a whil to turn on if i have to turn off. My neighbor leave his old Humminbird on and it seems ok

Put it in standby mode.

Press the PWr/Light key to access the Backlight dialog. Select Standby and press EntEr. Press any key to resume normal operation.

fantastic . thx Will try that next time out

I leave mine on 8 hours at a time. Only thing it hurts is the battery life.

When I'm on the water mine don't get turned off just when I'm not on the deck I put mine in standby mode as well as if I'm not at the console driving I put that one in standby mode. I know the older units were bad about the crystal in the transducers over heating and cracking if they didn't have a heat transfer source but I never experienced it personally, my old X75 was left on over night but it had a shoot through hull transducer and didn't hurt it. In fact I still use it when running for depth and have the 9ti on full screen map.

thx for all the helpful answers . Hope to get out today and check out the standby mode. anyone have the Elite 7 hdi? Does it take a lot longer to load than any other graph I have used? or is it just my unit? appreciate all the comments . TFF community is awesome

I have a Hook 7 and it takes twice as long to boot up than my Elite 9ti

tried the standby mode and it worked like a charm. Thx to all that help me muddle thru boat ownership

Same with Hook 5 I have on trolling motor. I pull the motor up a lot without turning unit off. Depth just goes wacko until I drop it.