Helix Help

[Grumpy1]

Why does my Helix 9 show the depth of water double about 90% of the time? Just got it with my new boat in May; I did an update recently.


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[rnvinc]

This seems to happen in shallow water over a very hard bottom causing the sound pulse to make 2 trips to the bottom and back ... thus the unit is sensitive enough to pick up both return echoes ...

Try this ...:
https://www.crappie.com/crappie/fish...echos-returns/

Rickie

[RLS40]

Try turning your gain down a little. That should eliminate the second return.

[D Johnson]

You will find a lot of ansers here Humminbird Sonar/GPS as it is a problen that Humminbird is having. I have 2 Helix 10" and a 9" on my boat and the problem is more then just being caused by a double image. My favorite crappie lake has a max depth of 17' and my AutoChart has recorded areas 90' deep. There is updated info on that site giving a bunch of settings to use. Humminbird CS has not been a help as everyone has tried everything they say with no improvement. We are hoping for a software fix some day. We used to adjust out sounders for that second return as it gives a better image of the bottom. It is not right to have to dummy down a unit to fix a problem that we never had before. Don