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dmac68

Hello

My A78 as above has not detected my transducer since a rough trip home a few weeks back. There is no damage on the transducer, no water leaks out after a trip, no marks on it and it didn't even kick up at any time. The MFD was playing up as well by roving with all the heaving and the boat icon appearing top left screen indicating it had lost its way (an annoying issue with these touchscreen units in wet/rough weather). No water got into jacks at the back of MFD and there are no known or observable cable issues from transducer up to MFD. I have the supplied suppressors at the rear of the unit and have had them installed there for over a year. The system has less than 300 hours running time on it.

I have done the soft reset not affecting all data and now also the full reset having first transferred my data to an external SC card first (as per advice on a similar post). The unit fires up properly, I reinstall all my settings then select fishfinder on the homescreen, it loads and it says 'no transducer' or similar. I press 'select transducer' as offered but it does not find one and none appears in the list.

I don't want to buy a new transducer to 'test' if it is the old one that is kaput. I will be months before I can remove the transducer and travel to civilisation to have it tested at a shop - I am in the remote South Pacific. I am relying on my 20 year old other brand fishfinder at present - I run second/redundant systems in nav, comms, depth/fish finders, EPIRB's etc due to my remote location - there is no Coast Guard out here!

Thanks
Darren