Here a while back, I had a battery problem, and the juice finally got so low that the HDS-7 started shutting down and trying to reboot. Until the display actually went blank, I couldn't tell any difference in image quality.

I've rarely seen anything on sidescan worth investigating except in 40 fow or less.

does the sincetivity of the 2-d sonar have any effect on the side or downscan?

The 2D sonar operates at a different frequency than the LSS-1 transducer so it would not effect your Side/down scan.

Brian

Thank you

jason,

My new boat will be here in a couple of weeks and I will have a HDS 8 mounted at the bow, there will be a HDS 8 in the dash and there will be a HDS 10 ram mounted by the steering wheel. My question is 1) How do I set up the networking where the bow mount will read (sonar) the built in transducer in trolling motor.
2) How do I set up the network where all 3 HDS will read mapping, down and side imaging and mark a waypoint on any of the 3 units and that waypoint record on all 3 units

Nice setup.

Your LSS 1 will have 3 Ethernet connections that will run to each unit. Yellow connection.

Find the network menu item and you can choose which transducer to use for each unit. If you have two antennas this is where you choose which to use on which unit.

back on page 1 the first set of pictures, it is showing the sidescan, left and right, and the downscan, and they are both in the blue pallete, mine are Blue and Tan or brown, my question is how do you change them both to blue, the main one I can set, but the second one I don't know how!!!

anyone know screw and thread size to flush mount a mark5

larry try bringing up the brown 1 on full screen and change the pallet and see if it keeps if not page over to brown and try while its half screen

For the HDS series, what is the difference between the normal HDS unit and the HDS-X unit? For example, HDS-5 versus HDS-5x?

Hdx is only downscan I believe with no regular sonar. I personally wouldn't by it. The hds5 is a great unit though!!

The HDS5 has internal GPS/Mapping the HDS-5X is a fishfinder only.

Brian

I was wondering what the best way is to be able to view the hds series units at home. Has anyone used a 110 to 12 volt converter? Also is there anyway to see the same mapping on the hds with insight on your computer?

I have an extra power cable, cig ligther plug and convert...bought the cig lighter and converter from Radio Shack. As for the extra power cable w/cig lighter end you can purchase that from lowrance or a dealer. Dealer probably would be quicker.

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Cool thanks!