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David Booth Posted on Feb 08, 2016
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Depth sounder erratic. Giving 0.3m in a channel over 20 m. Then after many minutes starats to work for a few minutes. Then back to 0.3 or 0.4m. Makes the thing unusable in shallow water.

5 years old & no problem before. Others have reported same issue but cannot find fix?

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on May 27, 2009

SOURCE: Lowrance x96 does not function after 20 feet depth

Your transducer needs to be adjusted so the return signal can be picked up. Some of these have to be super tuned to receive the signal. Also the transducer may be moving ever so slightly when the boat is traveling at speed. You may have some water turbulence interference all contibute to signal return.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jul 16, 2009

SOURCE: it shows the correct depth and then intermittently

I have this problem as well! Mine is on the LMS 332C

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  • Posted on Jul 24, 2011

SOURCE: shows incorrect depth suddenly and Erratic displays

MY XD510c works fine then flashes 2.5 and fills the screen with black red blue white vertical lines...then after an amount of variable amount of time goes back to working for awhile

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