Not sure, but the guys from Lowrance said it powers down differently that way vs pushing the power button once and scrolling down to power off, enter. They don't even put the proper prodedure in the owners manual so who knows??? But it was something about saving data and some guys were having problems....???? It's just habit since that was the only way to turn off the old graphs.

Temp was selected. here are screen shots from my HDS 7 and my HDS 8 hooked up to the same transducer. I hooked both graph up to the bow and stern with the same results in both locations. HDS 8 displays temperature and HDS 7 displays "---" where temp should be.

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Hey Champ, the only thing I can think of is... Work with me here, going by memory and it's not great. There is a setting deep inside one of the menus and there is a setting for temp, it has the option for "global" or "this unit". Find that setting and I'm sorry I can't remember which menu it is but check that. Other than that I'm clueless, also did you turn the network off.

Network is off. today I was just alternating between the two, at the same power and transducer location. I will try to locate temp setting that you are speaking of. I went to the data overlay to check and see if there might be more than one temp source, but no luck there that I found. Thanks for the input. I did hook up the lss-1 and switch over to structure scan and that screen had temp from lss-1 transducer. I'm sure i'll figure it out eventually.

Dang I can't remember which menu it is but it is has the main unit options. I've only been in it once and that was to change how my graphs were sharing info.

You'd be better off asking this question over at bassboatcentral.com Theres a Lowrance board there and those guys know everything!

ok cool. I'll try there.

just checked out bbc and right off i found a thread concerning temp issues. even had a video link about the local/global setting you spoke of. to get there: menu > menu > network > data sources > sonar > temperature > select this unit.
gonna try this tomorrow maybe it will work
thanks for the help scout

Anybody have any suggestions at to any pitfalls to installation that I need to avoid. Or any settings that you recommend to a novice.

I have over 5 years of experience with a LMS-332 so lots of the stuff in the manual (which I have already read from cover to cover) is very familure.

****OH...and will I be able to use a SD card to load the HDS with my icons and waypoints from my LMS-332???

Pretty simple Kyle, just take your time and use good old fashioned common sense. Now if your putting the lss ducer on that can be a little pickier. It has to be able to see, if you have a jackplate then it's usually not a problem. I'm not sure if your old graph downloads into the same format as the hds. If nobody helps you out here head over to bbc and ask those fellas.

Lowrance HDS Gen 1 units updates get released tomorrow 9 March 2012. I was able to download it but have not installed it yet on my units.

Yes I know it is not valid until tomorrow

Why would there be a new update? They just put out 4.1 a few weeks ago.

I replied in other post

This worked!!! thank you scout

Common problem, not sure why, but it is. Post some when you get a chance.

need some help just installed a HDS GEN2 with insight and put a hot maps chip in (the new one) and its not showing up I turned the unit off poped it in and no difference any ideas?? The front unit is a HDS7 GEN2 and works fine??