Post by mwardncsu on Jul 27, 2015 11:50:11 GMT -5
The other week, the last day we were up on vacation we were taking a bit of a pleasure ride heading to the back of one of my favorite bait creeks so I decided to switch over to the StructureScan just to see what bait we were marking this time of year, and to my surprised my left-sidescan view was gone.... the downscan and the right-side view were still OK, but I was blind on the left
Fortunately I had a buddy that had upgraded from the LSS-1 StructureScan to the ewer StructureScan HD transducer when he added a HDS12 Gen2 unit to his rig - so he had the old LSS-1 xducer laying around. I picked up it from him and confirmed that the problem was indeed the xduer (and not the LSS-1 box). He made me a deal I could not refuse on his xducer and after about an hour, 1/2 of that floating in the lake with the boat in the lift to remove the old and re-install the new and the other 1/2 fishing the new wire back to the console, I was back up and running....
Not sure what could have caused the failure. Perhaps we hit a log somewhere along the way that bumped the xducer just right - though mine is pretty protected up in the lower pocket. Maybe it was just time..... the unit has probably more than 2000 hours on it - though that is not really that long in the scheme of things - its about 300 days of 6-8 hours/day.
I'd always wondered if the SS xducer would "fade" over time like the regular xducers do...... I may be getting back in the water before long to replace my regular 83/200 as well as I noticed the plastic "clam shell" looked like it was trying to start open up on the leading edge where the two 1/2s of the shell meet..... debating if I should go ahead and proactively change it before it goes bad when the lake is back to 50 degrees...... think I last changed it about 2 and a half years ago.
Fortunately I had a buddy that had upgraded from the LSS-1 StructureScan to the ewer StructureScan HD transducer when he added a HDS12 Gen2 unit to his rig - so he had the old LSS-1 xducer laying around. I picked up it from him and confirmed that the problem was indeed the xduer (and not the LSS-1 box). He made me a deal I could not refuse on his xducer and after about an hour, 1/2 of that floating in the lake with the boat in the lift to remove the old and re-install the new and the other 1/2 fishing the new wire back to the console, I was back up and running....
Not sure what could have caused the failure. Perhaps we hit a log somewhere along the way that bumped the xducer just right - though mine is pretty protected up in the lower pocket. Maybe it was just time..... the unit has probably more than 2000 hours on it - though that is not really that long in the scheme of things - its about 300 days of 6-8 hours/day.
I'd always wondered if the SS xducer would "fade" over time like the regular xducers do...... I may be getting back in the water before long to replace my regular 83/200 as well as I noticed the plastic "clam shell" looked like it was trying to start open up on the leading edge where the two 1/2s of the shell meet..... debating if I should go ahead and proactively change it before it goes bad when the lake is back to 50 degrees...... think I last changed it about 2 and a half years ago.
