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[da22y]

My Lowrance 5ti touchscreen give me mucho problems.
Water drops or wet finger cause the screen to act up a lot.
1. No response, freeze up.
2. Wrong selection.
3. Cursor jump around.

Gotta use screen lock + dry towel a lot, or you will be frustrated....
When it works, it is great.

[Andy09]

100 dollar rebate on the elites right now until July 4.

[ful-rac]

[chris138]

Originally Posted by ful-rac

What is that, kelp?!?

[GregAndrew]

Originally Posted by chris138

What is that, kelp?!?

Sand Bass party.

[chris138]

Originally Posted by GregAndrew

Sand Bass party.

Dang that's an awesome screenshot... I was guessing ! But on second look i saw the zoom haha

[chris138]

Originally Posted by da22y

My Lowrance 5ti touchscreen give me mucho problems.
Water drops or wet finger cause the screen to act up a lot.
1. No response, freeze up.
2. Wrong selection.
3. Cursor jump around.

Gotta use screen lock + dry towel a lot, or you will be frustrated....
When it works, it is great.

Da22y,

Do you have your transducer in the hull or in the water? Transducer completes the ground for the touchscreen, so if your transducer is inside the hull insulated w goop, you have no ground and the touch screen will malfunction. I have 7ti and my touch screen works with water blood and mackerel slime all over the screen.

[da22y]

Chris 138,

My transducer is inside the hull with goop indeed.
I will make it direct contact to water and see. You have a point !
I hope it is the "ground" issue.

Thank you !

Originally Posted by chris138

Da22y,

Do you have your transducer in the hull or in the water? Transducer completes the ground for the touchscreen, so if your transducer is inside the hull insulated w goop, you have no ground and the touch screen will malfunction. I have 7ti and my touch screen works with water blood and mackerel slime all over the screen.

[chris138]

Originally Posted by da22y

Chris 138,

My transducer is inside the hull with goop indeed.
I will make it direct contact to water and see. You have a point !
I hope it is the "ground" issue.

Thank you !

Guaranteed that's your problem. Now you gotta get that crap off the face of your skimmer and clean it as well as you can. DON'T use sandpaper on the business end of the skimmer. Ideally you want your transducer in the water, a couple inches or more below the surface. Im guessing you don't have a scupper w a transducer mount...

Grounding issues aside.... boom arms for the 'ducer are unwieldy, but produce unparalleled resolution. I know everyone will say "if you install it correctly w goop it works fine". Sure it produces an image that "looks" right when you dial in the colorline. But how much of your signal strength is reflected or lost in the first 10mm of ping (ie your goop and hull)? 20%? 50%?

With a proper boom arm that has the 'ducer 5 inches below the surface, the elite 4x can easily track the bottom in 1000' of water at 83kHz. But shooting though the hull, your gain is maxed out just trying to find bait in 200', and you'll never see the yt on the bottom.

I would love to see some images from the Total Scan transducer if someone would like to post up!

[Sheephead]

Elite 7ti, super clear sonar and easy to use with many helpful features! I love mine and struggle to tell the difference between GB, spanish, sardines, and everything else when I go back to my hook 5 on the revo.

[da22y]

Originally Posted by chris138

Guaranteed that's your problem. Now you gotta get that crap off the face of your skimmer and clean it as well as you can. DON'T use sandpaper on the business end of the skimmer. Ideally you want your transducer in the water, a couple inches or more below the surface. Im guessing you don't have a scupper w a transducer mount...

Yup ! Chris 138 ,
You are right , change the transducer to direct contact to seawater solve 99% of the touch screen problem ( still have system freeze one time).

Have you experience this problem? :
Lost GPS destination direction red line.
When I input waypoint to go to, I got distance to destination, but no
direction red line to follow.
Only after many system shut down/ reboot, I do get those GPS
direction line back.
Thanks

[chris138]

Da22y

Try the hard reset and see if it works.

[da22y]

Originally Posted by chris138

Da22y

Try the hard reset and see if it works.

It happened to me many times.
Yes, soft/hard reset will resolve most problems I know.
But , am I the only one experience this problem on Elite Ti ?
Never encountered this on my past GPS combo, HDS, Hook, Dragonfly or Garmin, Humminbird....

Thanks