Hi guys. New to the site but I've done a lot of reading here...lots of great info on this site. I have a 596 HD DI and it seems that the transducer may be having issues after the long New England winter. In down image mode the screen shows the bottom contour and consistency beautifully but in sonar mode it will not show the bottom or occasionally it will show a faint line only, it does show the surface and surface clutter. It still provides a depth readout numerically. This happens on both 200 and 455kHz. Even on a split screen of sonar and DI, the DI looks great but the sonar image is just white except for the surface. I adjusted sensitivity, surface clutter, range, max mode etc but it didn't help. Also checked all connections. The display head unit seems to behave fine, all buttons work and it scrolls through menus as expected (this is always stored inside in the winter).
Transducer model is XNT 9 DI T. I have access to a XNT 9 20 T transducer. Will this work with my unit? I believe this is the transducer that comes with the non-DI version of my unit. Obviously I would lose DI capabilities but would everything else work?
Thanks,
Shawn