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I am having a problem with my 585.
Sunday I was out on the local river and it seems my Furuno 585 has lost its marbles. Was working fine Satuday. Today worked as always has before up until I made turn around at idle. From that point on it hasn't worked correctly.
The set up is a Furuno 585 networked to a Garmin 4212 series. I don't bottom fish much at all - but this what was already on the boat.
I am not proficient with this unit since I mostly use it for depth and temperature for trolling or local cruising.
What I see is that the bottom read will start to scroll and then blank out. The depths in water I know is about 8' will range anywhere from 1200' to 4.5' and then will give me correct readings then give me "--------" then a second of correct readings and then back to "-------". I was always able to read depth at speeds of 30 mph or so - now nothing at all.
Originally I thought the transducer might have something on it - weeds or trash or something - but it looks fine (I trailer). I lifted the back of the console and the plugs are tight on both power and for the transducer. I tried rebooting 50 times - but powering the unit on and off and by cutting the power to it altogether and restaring - nada.
I will get an intermittent read every so often and the bottom view starts to scroll -but it gets about 10% of the way across then blanks. The depth hash marks on the side remain.
Was in 50k since I was in The Keys. Tried going to 200k. No change. I did get it to sort of work in dual mode. But that gives me intermittent reads - literally a flash of correct depth and then back to either "--------" or wild numbers in the 1000s down to 4 feet.
Temperature read is present and appears to be unaffected.
At idle it seems to begin working, but then starts to lose its marbles again after about 5 minutes.
I posted this on The Hull Truth, but thought I'd put here. I didn't know this forum existed when I originally posted to THT.
ANY ideas? Thank you!
I am having a problem with my 585.
Sunday I was out on the local river and it seems my Furuno 585 has lost its marbles. Was working fine Satuday. Today worked as always has before up until I made turn around at idle. From that point on it hasn't worked correctly.
The set up is a Furuno 585 networked to a Garmin 4212 series. I don't bottom fish much at all - but this what was already on the boat.
I am not proficient with this unit since I mostly use it for depth and temperature for trolling or local cruising.
What I see is that the bottom read will start to scroll and then blank out. The depths in water I know is about 8' will range anywhere from 1200' to 4.5' and then will give me correct readings then give me "--------" then a second of correct readings and then back to "-------". I was always able to read depth at speeds of 30 mph or so - now nothing at all.
Originally I thought the transducer might have something on it - weeds or trash or something - but it looks fine (I trailer). I lifted the back of the console and the plugs are tight on both power and for the transducer. I tried rebooting 50 times - but powering the unit on and off and by cutting the power to it altogether and restaring - nada.
I will get an intermittent read every so often and the bottom view starts to scroll -but it gets about 10% of the way across then blanks. The depth hash marks on the side remain.
Was in 50k since I was in The Keys. Tried going to 200k. No change. I did get it to sort of work in dual mode. But that gives me intermittent reads - literally a flash of correct depth and then back to either "--------" or wild numbers in the 1000s down to 4 feet.
Temperature read is present and appears to be unaffected.
At idle it seems to begin working, but then starts to lose its marbles again after about 5 minutes.
I posted this on The Hull Truth, but thought I'd put here. I didn't know this forum existed when I originally posted to THT.
ANY ideas? Thank you!
