Ticking noise on my new Lowrence Elite 4 DSI

I just installed my new Lowrence Elite 4 DSI fishfinder on my kayak.  when I turn it on the transducer makes a ticking noise.  I can even feel it.   

Does anyone else have the same thing?

Does anyone know what it could be? 

Thanks,

Thats a perfectly normal operation of the transducer.


That tic or ping is what is sent thru the water coloum and when it hits something and bounces back to the transducer it can extrapalate the distance or depth of the object.

I havent felt its ever botherd the fish or hurt my catch rate... I do turn it off when sturgeon fishing though.

I only hear the noise (it's called SONAR because the S stands for Sound) on my cheap fishfinders when I put the transducers to my ear (No cracks about what the screen shows when I do that!), so maybe yours puts out a lot more sound than mine - it should be a regular beat.   If you turned it on with the yak out of the water on sawhorses I can imagine the sound would be resonate more. 

Thanks, I thought it was broken. 

Ultrasonic pulses, created by a piezoelectric crystal (ie. transducer). What you hear and feel are a small portion of the signal that is just at the edge of the audible range.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Check to see if you have the alarm clock feature turned on.  This feature tic-tocks like a clock.   Annoying I know. During operation if you lean your head to the left it will stop.  On the east coast you have to lean your head to the right to get it to stop.

Honestly, this is normal, my transducer does this, hold it in your hand while on, you will feel the clicks.  Its the echo location (depth finding) working.

Since you brought it up I thought I'd add a little more info.  Knowing all the above already I wondered if leaving the FF on for an extended period (out of the water) could harm the transducer, I know it's made to work forever in contact with water but water has a cushioning and absorbing property that air doesn't have.

I needed to enter a bunch of coordinates for spots I had gotten off of Google earth (seafloor mapping) and wanted to do it off the water.

Long story short I contacted Humminbird with the question and the answer came back that leaving the transducer powered up for long periods of time out of the water could damage it, not likely but possible and not recommended.  The rep told me for my purposes to put the unit into demo mode on startup and that would protect the transducer while still accepting the info I wanted to program into it.

Just thought I'd throw that out there.

NewFish,

Congrats on your new Lowrance! Great little units. I'm going to post on how to get your Google ways points onto your FF without having to manually type them in (pain in the ass). It takes a few steps but pretty easy after I did some testing. Most likely under this subject forum...

~ Mike