lineman49

You are 100% right . I have a elite 7 HDI (the 4th one) and am still having problems with this one! One would think after spending $800-900 bucks the dam thing would work!!

There is a " 4 Mile creek" state camp grd. 4 miles east of the Niag. river.

What did you buy for a boat ? Also I think I finally got a good Elite 7 HDI after 4 diff. ones. The latest one seems to be woking fine so for, it worked great all day on Fri. PM sent.

Try installing 4 in a row , thats like having all your teeth pulled at once! lol. Anyway my newest "7" worked great all day,today they are nice when they work. With any luck it will keep working. I always had Lowrance too starting with the paper graph & just replaced my LMS 350 A with this elite 7. Fingers crossed!

For sure! The next one will be a different brand.

FYI, My frist Elite 7 HDI shut off by itself, then have to do a hard reset & reprogram. Another one would not lock on to a satilite for GPS. I am now on my forth one! I am glad I took out the extended warranty! I talked with an eletronics wizard/ computer expert & he thinks they have a soft ware problem. Will be trying the newest one for the frist time tomorrow AM.

JMO but watch out for the Elite 7 HDI, I am on my forth one.. Glad I took out the extended warranty! They appear to have a soft ware problem!

Just installed a new Elite 7 HDI but it will randomly turns itself off. I can turn it right but on but then have to reboot it like starting all new again. (everytime I turn it on) it does not seem to save anything. I have heard that the Elite 5 has this problem also. Lowrance has an update but that does'nt seem to work either. Does anyone have this problem and a way to solve it ? Thanks advance.

Let us know how you do.

Last reports from last week about night catches. Not much going on during the day yet. Plus too much wind and waves lately.

Try cleaning all the connections, even inside the switches(take apart) & clean the contacts.

Thanks guys! I'll be checking all grds. & connections.

Just installed a new Lowrance Elite 7 HDI fishfinder/chart/gps. On the sonar I get alot of vertical "static lines" on the screen & was told it might be bad grounds in the boat.The faster I go the worst it gets. It is worst when I am using the trolling motor than with the main motor . My question is where does one start looking for bad grds. & where is the main grd found on a boat? Any good ideas? Thanks!

You could try asking on "HuntingNewYork" empire hunting forum web site for some info. someone there might know.

Just installed a new Elite 7 HDI & love it , user friendly. jmo.

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