Lowrance Side Imaging Not Working On One Side

Structure page shows only a black screen with white line down the middle.

Lowrance side imaging not working on one side.

Most anglers who fish from a boat have some sort of sonar so we ll start there and save the side scan and down scan tweaks for. Check your operations manual to see if this is a feature of your depth sounder. But they work a whole lot better if you make a few changes to your settings to get a clear picture. Consider the object on the left side image.

If we assume that the water depth at the object matches the depth under the boat 16 6 ft. I have purchased and installed the lowrance elite 7ti with totalscan transducer. Sonar is a massively cool technology and to me side scanning and down scanning are two even cooler technologies. This allows you to set the range to well over 100 feet to the side and still make out important detail.

My lowrance structurescan unit allows me to view both sides or just one side at a time. Something i noticed today is that it actually seems to draw the screen in 2 of water. Side imaging solutions no side scan or not working correctly make sure your depth sounder has the side imaging option. Sonar and down imaging both work.

A reasonable assumption here because this is a featureless flat then the true lateral distance to the object is 25 feet closer to the boat than the 30 foot side imaging range might suggest. Not all fish finders are capable of this. High chirp or 200khz higher frequencies display a higher resolution image making it easy to discern fish from structure or. Last weekend the structure scan stopped working.

If you re running along a rip line or casting into a shoreline you can set the device to look only into the shallows. Not sure i can explain this but if i take off auto depth and manually set it for 5. Check out this breakdown active i. Same for both side image and down image.

Lowrance product expert jacob scott walks through the basic settings set up and interpretation of active imaging sidescan. The side imaging range to the center of the object is 30 feet. Here is a quick breakdown. Lowrance structure scan stopped working i have a lowrance setup in my boat.