Humminbird Side Imaging Forums
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: FLCoyote on May 22, 2013, 01:25:02 PM
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My 797c2si recently changed four menu settings while on a fishing trip without my touching the unit. It changed user mode from advanced to normal, water from salt to fresh, transducer to a different type that the one on the boat and time from eastern to central. I'm absolutely sure this is what happened. Question is: Could this be due to voltage fluctuation when starting the engine?
About two weeks ago it decided it couldn't read the depth in the local bay correctly, I coud see the bottom in five or six feet of water and it was reading from 40 to 100 feet. I finally reset to factory defaults and then went through all of the menu items and reset them to my preferences. When I was out in the gulf last Sunday my Side imaging was working fine, then without any help from me none of the side imaging views was available. When I checked the menu items it had changed transducer type to one that does not support side imaging. I have been having some voltage fluctuation problems lately and wonder if that would have caused these problems. I now have everything set correctly and it seems to be working fine.
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I think if the unit is not shutdown properly, then it may not save
your current settings.
If the voltage reduction was enough, the unit may have rebooted,
I guess it's possible.
Hooking your sonar to it's own dedicated battery will solve these types of
issues and also interference issues.
The sonar battery does not have to be large.
I would also check your battery and fuse connections, and
the fuse itself.
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I found someone with a similar problem in another post. They were having problems retaining settings and found that they were shutting the unit off with an accessory switch instead of the on/off button. I've done the same thing a number of times, but no more.
FLCoyote