Thread: Humminbird 597ci HD DI Combo PROBLEMS

I have a 24 volt motor guide varible speed trolling motor. If it were only as simple as another unit turned on or just a trolling motor button. This unit's digital depth goes haywire with nothing else on and not using the trolling motor. Just a change of depth sometimes causes the units digital depth to start panicking and go from 1 to 600 feet. I first used this in truman lake and for a period the depth would read 5 feet deeper than it was constantly. I turned my lowerance off to see if it could be corrected and that did not work.
I read this forum daily and tried many if not every setting the unit has and became very frustrated.
The last straw was on monday. I was fishing in 8-9 feet of water (constant). Nothing else on my boat was running. did not use the trolling motor (drifting with the wind). was in factory settings and the digital depth went from 1.5 to 900 feet and everthing in between. Rebooted twice. Same results. At that point I suspected an evil spirit had taken up residence behind the donut of my humminbird. Called humminbird and they told me to send in everything including the tranducer. Hope it gets fixed. Am lost without a trolling motor up front when crappie fishing. Funny I never had this much trouble with all of the other lowerance units i have had. If the lowerance causes the humminbird to have problems, why doesn't the humminbird cause the lowerance to have problems?

Well, I would say you did the right thing. I have worked with electronics for over 50 years. I don't understand all I know. That is why they call it electronic theory. We make assumptions and guesses when applying theory. Oh, and don't forget algorithms.

HB will fix it I am sure. Good luck.

good luck .wish we could have helped more

Originally Posted by Cane Pole

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i still do not understand,even after reading the def.Algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

i have a 596c hd di thats doing the same thing i have called them 3 times they sent me a pc11 power cable said that will fix it WRONG . had to reset 9 times today i wiil call again monday and tell them what they can do with this high price junk they sold me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by kosmo

i still do not understand,even after reading the def.Algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Try this example.

Algorithm - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

thanks , i can understand that.theres more than one way to solve a problem,but with the same end result,right?

now i might still be on the wrong page,cane pole but bare with me.this is what i think you are meaning.the people that right the code for the software need to change some of the ingredients in recipe in the software to get the desired result