Lowrance CARBON...BUG?
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 1:29 pm
Hello. I’m Francesco from Italy.
i would like to tell what’s its happening win Lowrance.
i have an HDS GEN III 7” which work with TOTALSCAN transducer. I got it about 10 months ago and I am satisfied with it.
About 2 weeks ago I decided to upgrade my system buying the HDS CARBON 7”. I thought to keep my totalscan transducer. I convince one of my friend who wanted a new echo to pass from raymarine to lowrance. He decided to buy HDS CARBON 7” with totalscan transducer, so we made unique order.
Both of us are finding lot of problem on HDS CARBON. In particular, Ping rate and scrolling velocity slowly very much under 15 meters of bottom. At 25 meters, carbon work too bad, too slow ping and too slow window scrolling, indipendente from frequency used (medium vs high chirp). Note that both carbon are updated to last software and pingrate I set max.
On 5-10 meters bottom carbon work ok, no problem, but under 15 meters he stops to work fine...it seems like a software problem or a bug with totalscan trasdncuer.
This happen on both totalscan transducer! And if I mount my old gen iii...it works perfectly!!!
I called LOWRANCE and they send another carbon to try...result: identical same problem!!
So they said that it is probably a serious software problem on carbon if it is working on totalscan transducer. C9mpared to gen III...his performances are really bad.
so they wanted all 3 carbon back to make some test........they say it is first time they here this but they recognize it is a really big problem.
now, my question is: it happens only to me???? I can not believe I discover this bug...does anyone has compare performance of carbon vs gen iii with totalscan in 20-25 meters of water????
Let me know!!!
thaks
i would like to tell what’s its happening win Lowrance.
i have an HDS GEN III 7” which work with TOTALSCAN transducer. I got it about 10 months ago and I am satisfied with it.
About 2 weeks ago I decided to upgrade my system buying the HDS CARBON 7”. I thought to keep my totalscan transducer. I convince one of my friend who wanted a new echo to pass from raymarine to lowrance. He decided to buy HDS CARBON 7” with totalscan transducer, so we made unique order.
Both of us are finding lot of problem on HDS CARBON. In particular, Ping rate and scrolling velocity slowly very much under 15 meters of bottom. At 25 meters, carbon work too bad, too slow ping and too slow window scrolling, indipendente from frequency used (medium vs high chirp). Note that both carbon are updated to last software and pingrate I set max.
On 5-10 meters bottom carbon work ok, no problem, but under 15 meters he stops to work fine...it seems like a software problem or a bug with totalscan trasdncuer.
This happen on both totalscan transducer! And if I mount my old gen iii...it works perfectly!!!
I called LOWRANCE and they send another carbon to try...result: identical same problem!!
So they said that it is probably a serious software problem on carbon if it is working on totalscan transducer. C9mpared to gen III...his performances are really bad.
so they wanted all 3 carbon back to make some test........they say it is first time they here this but they recognize it is a really big problem.
now, my question is: it happens only to me???? I can not believe I discover this bug...does anyone has compare performance of carbon vs gen iii with totalscan in 20-25 meters of water????
Let me know!!!
thaks