Garmin question

[lone ranger]

Hi,I need help with the garmin gps map 545s.the transducer seemed to gooey glued to the hull ,but I don't get depts on my screen.is there a special way to mount the transducer ?

 

[stwendl]

Depending on your transducer it may be a cup glued to the hull with the transducer screwed in the top in the proper angle. The cup is filled with glycol or antifreeze as a transfer medium. At leastthats the way on my r27

 

[S. Todd]

The transducer in the R25SC is also mounted in a cup filled with antifreeze (-100 degree freshwater system antifreeze is what they generally use). Counter clockwise a quarter turn and lift and it comes off the cup that is glued to the hull. Hold it to your ear and if working it will make a slight ticking sound when on. If your unit works the same as the 741XS, there is a screen in the menu section of the sonar screen that turns the transducer on and off (which may have accidently unbeknownst to the user somehow got turned off).

 

[Champ]

Hi,I need help with the garmin gps map 545s.the transducer seemed to gooey glued to the hull ,but I don't get depts on my screen.is there a special way to mount the transducer ?

Check the fluid level. Had the same issue and was due to a lack of anti freeze. Filled it up and all is good.

 

[JohnH]

If the transducer checks do not reveal a problem, I offer another suggestion: If you have not deleted your "Active Tracks", then do so. It seems that storing too many Tracks uses memory that the depth sounder needs for processing, and the result -- at least in my case -- is that the depth display shows dashes. Deleting the stored Active Tracks and restarting the GPS unit (power Off/On) restored depth operation.

I am indebted to someone on TugNuts for this insight -- it was some time ago and was buried in an even more diverse helpful message, but I cannot recover the name for attribution. For reasons that I cannot comprehend, Garmin does not display a warning of the memory overflow, nor can I find any hint of the issue in their printed instructions.

-- John H