Seafever
Well-Known Member
I run Lowrance X4-Pro........I'm on my third one in in 3 seasons. Seems I get about one spring/summer out of them and then they die. I think it's the transducers. They seem pretty flimsy to start with, although rated for up to 70mph. Guy at HC told me if you drop them once on the floor they are probably toast because the little diode inside the transducer bulb is very fragile.....so I was extra careful on last installation and since then it has not been dropped or banged ever. Last Tuesday i was out ..and....sure enough I started getting bogus wonky readings or no readings at all. A new transducer cost just about as much as the whole unit so I buy a new unit each time in case it isn't the transducer. I've experimeneted with transducer height at the back of the boat and I thought I had it dialed in for height. This time around I may opt for a more powerful unit (grayscale)......but will that mean I'm any farther ahead in terms of how long the transducer lasts? My brother in law has a real nice expensive fishfinder........but he left the transducer on the boat over the winter in Ontario and the freezing weather put a nice big crack in it. 169 bucks later, he's good to go...... How long do yours last?.......and do you do anything special to avoid damage?