Lowrance Hook 5 Mid/High/DownScan Upgrade Ideas?

I'm using an Elite 5 Ti and have had good experience with it so far.  I think I have an extra Elite 5 HDI FF that may work with your existing transducers.  I think the only real differences between the Tis and HDI/DSIs are the touchscreen. 

I'm using an Elite 5 Ti and have had good experience with it so far.  I think I have an extra Elite 5 HDI FF that may work with your existing transducers.  I think the only real differences between the Tis and HDI/DSIs are the touchscreen.

Elite 5 Ti is more of my price range.  I am not sure about $1,000 fish finder.  Will stop by West Marine to check on connections to make sure they will work with my transducers and power cords prior to making a purchase.  Also, sent an email to Lowrance Customer Service asking these questions.

Thank you for your help.

Paul

Just ordered Lowrance Elite-5 Ti Touchscreen Fishfinder and Chartplotter Combo with DownScan Transducer for $280 from GPSCity.com

Hope this will resolve my issues.  Got tired from spending too much time on my troublesome fish finder.

I’ve noticed a lot of issues with the newer Lowrance units. But my original Elite 5 still works flawlessly after 8yrs. 83/200kHz dual scan is all you need really. Everything after that is just extra flair.

I’ve noticed a lot of issues with the newer Lowrance units. But my original Elite 5 still works flawlessly after 8yrs. 83/200kHz dual scan is all you need really. Everything after that is just extra flair.

Thank you for your advice.   I don't want to get a unit that is too complicated or with too many options for my purpose.

Received my order of Elite-5 Ti and tried to set up.
The older power cord fits fine but it has 9-pin (black) transducer cable and my old 7-pin (blue) transducer cable would not fit.
Did search on the manual and found an adapter cable.  Ordered 00-13313-001Lowrance Black 000-13313-001 7 Blue to 9 Pin Adapter cable.
Hope this would allow me to use my old transducers.

Paul

I’m picking up an Elite 7 today at Fisherman’s warehouse.   It appears that it is compatible with my existing hook (not hook 2) transducers.  I called and verified this with Lowrance. Fisherman’s warehouse also has the adapter I’ll need to connect the ‘blue’ transducer connection to the Elite.  I hope it all works. 


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If you use it in ocean, unless the touch screen is improved somehow. I have seen older version of touch screen is not so friendly to wet finger.

I am just waiting for my elite 5-HdI to die so I could upgrade 

If you use it in ocean, unless the touch screen is improved somehow. I have seen older version of touch screen is not so friendly to wet finger.

I am just waiting for my elite 5-HdI to die so I could upgrade 

I will find out next weekend how responsive the touch screen is.  Will carry a microfiber towel to dry my fingers.

Paul

Received my order of Elite-5 Ti and tried to set up.
The older power cord fits fine but it has 9-pin (black) transducer cable and my old 7-pin (blue) transducer cable would not fit.
Did search on the manual and found an adapter cable.  Ordered 00-13313-001Lowrance Black 000-13313-001 7 Blue to 9 Pin Adapter cable.
Hope this would allow me to use my old transducers.

Paul

Thank you for all your research!

I've been thinking about upgrading to the Ti myself. Good to know about the 7/9 pin issue.

So about your Hook5 issue, did you update your software?
I had similar problem w/ my 5HDI first I got it, but after the software update it worked fine (until I got the water damage from the sd card door...).

Let us know how do you like your new Ti.

As soon as I had the issue, I updated the software but the issue continued.
Will update my progress and performance of Ti.

Paul

sorry I didn't see this sooner or else I would have told you about the 7 to 9 pin. If you are not using the total scan transducer you will need the 7 to 9 pin.

As for the touch screen...its a big pain in the butt when wet. To help solve that issue I just lock the screen and don't change anything on the water lol

ahhh forgot about that black/blue because my HDS has both! So for me it was a simple.plug and play upgrade