Transducer damaged by cold temperature?
I left my fish finder (lowrance hook2 5) in garage this week while Texas has cold freeze. Temperature dropped to early teen last few nights. Went out today but found transducer is not functioning properly. It still reports the temperature but no depth or sonar information. I don’t hear the vibration sound from transducer, either.
This is the first time since it use it 2 years ago.
Anyone had similar experience before?
Hopefully it will recover.
Appreciate any suggestions or insight you can share.
Thanks.
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Transducer damaged by cold temperature?
Thanks for all the replies. I guess that the takeaway is cold weather should not be the reason.
Last Friday water temperature was 35F and transducer did not work. Before that trip, transducer was left outdoor.
I put transducer indoor before last Sunday trip. water temperature rose to 48F.
During that trip, it initially didn’t work. But after about 15 minutes turned on, it suddenly starts to work.
I still have no idea that why it stooped working and suddenly back to work. Only thing I can speculate is that maybe the quick drop of air temperature from 60F to 10F (very rare occasion in Houston area) is a cold shock to the transducer.
I don’’t expect it happen in the near future as this cold freeze is supposed to be once in a hundred years, lol.
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