Don't leave Transducer on when not in water

[TNDiver]

I don't know how many know this or not, but I learned it yesterday.  As some of you know, I have been installing my Garmin fish finder and I wondered if once I was done if I could start it while in my garage to play around with it.  I learned, thankfully BEFORE I did it, that you can not run your transducer without being in the water or it can burn up.  I read that the CHIRP ones are more prone to it.  I have heard it is in the owners manual, but who reads those! Or it is probably step 20, once you worked your way through the previous 19!  Anyways, they rely on the water to cool them, so running them without the water can burn them up.

Learn something new everyday!

[Donald Garner]

Tks for sharing that piece of information.  That could be an expensive lesson to learn.

[fishin couillon]

I had Lowrance and now have Garmin.....never burned up a transducer but i also dont run them out of water for hours.....now i'll play with them from time to time while in the shop but never posed any problems.....if i'll be there for an hour playing then yes i'll turn them off in the menu.

[TNDiver]

I had Lowrance and now have Garmin.....never burned up a transducer but i also dont run them out of water for hours.....now i'll play with them from time to time while in the shop but never posed any problems.....if i'll be there for an hour playing then yes i'll turn them off in the menu.

I have heard that outside air temp also plays a role, but I don't want to risk it

[Bassinkorea]

I didn't actually know this TND, so thanks for sharing   

Having said that, every time I pull the TM out of the water to move to the next spot I always put my Lowrance into "standby mode". The reason I do this is because if I don't it take quite a long time for the transducer to find the bottom the next time I put the TM back in the water. So I'm killing two birds with one stone   

[Oldfart9999]

If you want to play with your sonar out of the water see if you have a demo mode, it doesn't use the transducer. Everytime you run the transducer you are wearing it out, just another reason to not run it unless it's actual use.
Rodney

[tooboocoo]

So everytime I pull my bow mount to run down the lake I need to turn my unit off?  Haven't done that in 20+ years and haven't burned one out yet.  Just saying.

[TNDiver]

Like I said above, it sounds like it is the CHIRP ones that are more prone. I am guessing you didn't have a CHIRP transducer 20 years ago? 

[Bassinkorea]

So everytime I pull my bow mount to run down the lake I need to turn my unit off?  Haven't done that in 20+ years and haven't burned one out yet.  Just saying.

I don't turn mine off, just put it in standby, turns back on quick just by touching the screen.

[Capt. BassinLou]

I don't turn mine off, just put it in standby, turns back on quick just by touching the screen.

Same here.

[Oldfart9999]

Standby turns off  the transducer, if you go to mapping the transducer is off also as is demo mode.
Rodney

[tooboocoo]

According to tech gal at Humminbird, you're OK for short runs down the lake but anything longer you should shut down.  Makes me wonder about my thru hull transducer that (hopefully) never gets wet.

[Burbarry]

According to tech gal at Humminbird, you're OK for short runs down the lake but anything longer you should shut down.  Makes me wonder about my thru hull transducer that (hopefully) never gets wet.

That was my first thought.


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[CBJ Tortorella]

Don't people have them rigged in the hull of kayaks and run them out of water 100% of the time?