Thread: Humminbird 597ci HD DI Combo PROBLEMS

I am using an 18 gauge wire. What gauge wire do you use?

Originally Posted by quikcarl61

What gauge wire are you running from the sonar to the battery, if it is to small a gauge it could cause this, I know , I tried 2 sonars before I figured it out.

We ended up running 12 or 14, you have a lot of current loss when you run long lengths of small wire, don't use anything smaller than 16 if its only about 10 to 12 feet, go up to 14 if its longer than this, I think this should help your problem, let me know how it works. Oh by the way my boat is 18.5 feet long so thats why we use 12.

Originally Posted by badaxed

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?

We have to remember that these newer high tech gadgets are more sensitive than models of "yore"...

Processors are fasters...xducers are more sensitive....these are mini computers....

I feel that RF interference submission techniques have not kept up with sonar capability gains in the sonar electronics field....(although some techniques are helping)....

That being said....in a nutshell....these higher end electronics ae just finikier than models of years past...and it's not a matter of HB or Low or whatever brand X...

So we can't really compare these units with what we are all used to from the past....

The end result will be worth the trouble....

Unfortunatley RF happens...(sometimes)...

Rickie

Originally Posted by kosmo

i had the shallow water dept fixed when i changed the surface clutter.it works great in as little as 1.5 feet. i run both my humminbirds at the same time,no interference. i also have a lowrance unit.i do not remember if i have run it while my 597 is runnig.next time i go out i will try it.as far as the rf noise gos from trolling motor, i only have a little on the 800khz.when i speed up to maybe three quarter speed or faster then i have no noise at all on the 800khz. i do remember that i can run my lowrance with my 997 with no interference.i will check for you when i get the time .good luck

ok i tryed running the 597 with the lowrance running. i did get interference on the 200khz that they both were pinging.

ordered 212 gauge marine wire. still waiting for unit to come back from humminbird. called them and they said my transducer was bad.

Originally Posted by quikcarl61

We ended up running 12 or 14, you have a lot of current loss when you run long lengths of small wire, don't use anything smaller than 16 if its only about 10 to 12 feet, go up to 14 if its longer than this, I think this should help your problem, let me know how it works. Oh by the way my boat is 18.5 feet long so thats why we use 12.

mean 12 gauge not 212.

Originally Posted by badaxed

ordered 212 gauge marine wire. still waiting for unit to come back from humminbird. called them and they said my transducer was bad.

iam having a problem with mine , the background is blue. how can i get it back the way it was

Originally Posted by fedexlady

iam having a problem with mine , the background is blue. how can i get it back the way it was

fedexlady... You might get better results with your query by starting a new thread with your topic questions...

Sometimes "new" questions down in the "body" of another thread get lost and dont garner the attention they should...

Even tho your question pertains to the same unit of discussion...your new thread would put your question as the leading question in the topic to discuss...

Plenty of people here will be willing to help...

Rickie