FAQ for Bass Fishing Electonics with Lowrance Pro

Q and A on Lowrance bass fishing electronics

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A hard reset will erase everything you have saved and reset the unit to factory default settings. Try the

soft” reset first. The hard reset should only be used

when starting completely over or selling your unit

to someone else. Before you do any reset, I would

suggest you back up any Waypoints and Trails you

have saved just in case anything goes wrong. You

should have these stored on a separate SD Card

anyway in case something happens to your unit.

SOFT RESET of HDS units:

With the unit OFF, press and hold the Pages button

and press and release the Power button.

Keep holding down the Pages button until the map

of the USA appears. Release all buttons and you are

done.

HARD RESET of HDS units:

WARNING ALL personal data will be erased, save

all your files on an SD card before you perform the

hard reset.

With the unit OFF, press and hold the ZIN and

ZOUT buttons, press and release the Power button.

Keep holding down the ZIN and ZOUT buttons until

the map of the USA appears. Release all buttons and

now your unit is reset to the factory default settings.

QUESTION #6

I have been using my HDS-9 Gen3 for a couple months and noticed how hot the screen gets. Is this normal or should I have this looked at?

ANSWER #6

The normal temperature of the screen is somewhere around 130 degrees. Most of the heat comes from the brightness of the screen itself. You can try turning the screen brightness down. There are five levels of brightness and even one level down will help lower the temperature. This is not a problem though as these screens are designed to run properly, even when hot to the touch; so don’t touch the screen!

QUESTION #7

I am having setting changes on my HDS units, even when I don’t change them myself.

WINTER 2017

I have both HDS touch units networked together with an Ethernet cable to share Waypoints and see the StructureScan picture on the unit at the bow. Sometimes the unit at the bow or the unit at the console will change which transducer it is trying to read the bottom with and if I have the trolling motor stowed, the transducer on the trolling motor is not even in the water; so if the unit at the console is trying to use that transducer, I don’t get a reading. What is going on?

ANSWER #7

An Ethernet network will share sonar, menu- setting data and Waypoint and Trail information from one HDS unit to another HDS unit.

If you have a StructureScan transducer mounted on the transom of your boat and it is plugged into the HDS unit at the console only, then you don’t need the Ethernet cable. If you want to see the StructureScan information at the front of the boat, while you are on the trolling motor, you will need the Ethernet cable networking the two units together to share the information gathered from the LSS-2 transducer mounted on the back of the boat. Here is where most of the issues come from since the type of data transferred along an Ethernet network can affect both units.

The resulting operation of two HDS units on a bass boat connected together with an Ethernet network can be confusing, to say the least, as menu settings data is transferred between the two units.

I am told that you must make the unit at the console the “Master” and the unit at the bow the “Slave”. A mater unit will be the one that is always powered up first and after the boot up is complete; the slave unit is then powered up. When this is done properly, selections you make on a transducer will be to a specific unit and will not be change without you making the change.

Let’s say you are checking which Broadband Sonar transducer the HDS unit at the bow is using to give you the traditional sonar picture. You will want the transducer on the trolling motor to be the one the Touch unit at the bow uses to find the bottom, right?

The pathway to check which transducer a specific unit is using is to hit the Power button and hit Settings in the menu that shows up on the screen. (By the way,

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