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Topic: Fish finder connector repair  (Read 1915 times)

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PURE ICE

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  • Location: Santa Cruz Mountains
  • Date Registered: Nov 2015
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Anyone got a lead on where I can get replacement connectors for my Lowrance FF transducer? Or a good fix for what I got? I've tried a few cheep tricks but nothing has stuck (literally).

Thanks
J. Ice


SlackedTide

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I think this might work for u....

Ask and u shall receive ...
 If it’s the power cable. I’d just buy a new one.
https://gemeco.com/chirp-connect.php
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2011 Hobie Outback - bye bye
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When you look outside the window, and all you see is fishing. True Story.


sebast

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Lowrance sells various adapter cables (e.g. to connect transducers with newer connectors to the old units). They were saying before it's not a good idea to change length of transducer's cable so don't know if there are side effects - I'd ask Lowrance; based on my experience their CS is pretty fast and often (but not always) knowledgable.

Getting new transducer might not be much more expensive though.
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SlackedTide

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Have u tried epoxy it?
2014 Hobie Revo 13
2011 Hobie Outback - bye bye
1997 Tracker 17 Deep V<--- Money Pit


When you look outside the window, and all you see is fishing. True Story.


PURE ICE

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I might have used epoxy.... I cant remember. I know bbn I've been playing with hot glue but it does not hold up.  I need a new CD but am cheep abd dont want to bite the bullet.  Funny thing is, I plugged it in hard with electrical tape last time out and it worked the best it ever did until it didn't water intrusion I figgure. I might just hard epoxy it and say F it the FF stays on the yak!. Thanks for the ideas not keen on splicing ooh! Just had an idea. I've got some acess to heavy duty heat shrink with glue I might give it a try.  I'll post the results.



SlackedTide

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If u can get it to hold... I’d just either epoxy it... I’ve used urethane to fix connectors also.... aka window weld.. it’s basically rubber. If you need a little flexing... also have cut and soldered  a transducer cable together which worked just fine... as far as the technical length of wiring and transducer ...impedance ... I wonder why they sell transducer cable extensions. Doesn’t hurt to try. 
2014 Hobie Revo 13
2011 Hobie Outback - bye bye
1997 Tracker 17 Deep V<--- Money Pit


When you look outside the window, and all you see is fishing. True Story.


PURE ICE

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I do remember trying to epoxy it, but it did not hold no adhesion to the plastic / rubber.  My issue is the connector pulled out of the Male connector leaving the pins connected not much to bite in to.  I just remembered I have some really good 3M rubber glue at my shop we use it for mounting o rings to fiber reinforced plastic caps.  I think I'll give it a go.
Widow weld? Never heard if that. Last ditch attempt?