The Heading Line was pointing in the direction I was running and the little boat was pointing off at a 45 degree angle away from the pointer. Looked like the boat was skidding sideways. This was either while on plan running or while idling around or on the trolling motor.

I'll have to try and find that menu and see if I can correct that.

Thanks

Did you index the Receiver to the Front of the Boat when you installed? There is an arrow you need to line up and point forward.

Yes. The arrow is pointing to the front.

Is it mounted near the trolling motor? The Magnetic Field when Trolling Motor is stowed could effect the Electronic Compass of the Heading Sensor. I would give HB Customer Service a Call 800-633-1468

No, it's mounted on the Starboard rear corner about as far away from anything metal as I can get it.

Called Hummingbird Select Support and they didn't have a clue. They want me to send them a picture via email so they can see it.

I'll get that done this week sometime.

Starboard is typically near the trolling batteries, do the cables to the trolling motor run up anywhere near the sensor? Even under the deck, they can interfere if closer than a foot or two (sounds like you have it farther than that, but doesn't hurt to take a look).

My boat is a Ranger 619 VS and the batteries are mounted down in the floor about mid way of the boat. I'm sure there may be some cables running to the motor controls along that side, but on a boat there is going to be some kind of wires or cables running just about everywhere. I sent the pictures to Hummingbird this afternoon. It'll be interesting to see what they come up with.

This is what it looks like. Notice the boat icon is 45 degrees off from the direction pointer.

Your making a turn in this image and that can happen with a heading sensor receiver. What does it look like when running straight.

Actually, it lines up with the pointer in a curve. I had just completed the turn and straightened out when I took these pics. I emailed the pics to Hummingbird Tech
support, but have not heard back from them.

long read,i've tried for several days now to update the the newest software to my pc,to download onto an sd card,etc.i'm able to locate the link under my documents,but when i go to click on the sd card symbol to update the info,my unit info is not there,but i can go in and add the other info such as my name address,and number.what am i doing wrong?! o yeah,i do have the humminbird pc downloaded.fyi i did look at a youtube video that explained it simple enough for me to grasp,but it was made a few years back,so maybe the process fro the newer units could be just a bit different? help! help! help!

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I've got an SI question. Say you were idling in 40ft of water looking for fish suspending at about 20 feet of water. Let's also say that you don't have much confidence in identifying fish on side imaging when they graph over the imaging of the bottom. Could you set your SI range to 45 ft on booth sides so that the screen shows the deep dark part as the biggest part of the screen? Would the suspended fish just show up in the dark part, making them easier to identify?

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