This did not do it last year, the ticking is driving me nuts in the front of the boat. When I got home I checked it out again and you can feel it also when you touch the built in transducer. I’m assuming this needs to be replace. It’s only 1.5 years old. 2 year warr,. Has anyone had to replace it?
All ducers do that.
Sometimes at different frequencies and volumes depending on depth, clarity and speed.
That’s how I tell it’s working , by feeling the bottom of the ducer
Yup. Sounds normal.
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All ducers do that.
Sometimes at different frequencies and volumes depending on depth, clarity and speed.
I had the same thing happen a few years ago when I was fishing P4 in spring during high water 
Water was like chocolate milk 
Ticking is normal, feeling it tick is normal, hearing it while fishing is sometimes normal. If you were in dirty water with a lot of sediment/debris floating around your sonar waves will bounce off them at the transducer and send a loud ticking noise through the air. Like when ice fishing and you hold the transducer just on top the water, you can hear it click 20-30 feet away. If you were in clear water with no debris I would look into it a little further. Otherwise just ignore it until you find some cleaner water, it will go away.
Man it just don’t seem normal, yeah there is lots of debris and drity water but there was last year also. It never made that much noise. I hope it calls some fish in because if I can hear it so can’t Mr & Mrs walleye. I guess I will just deal with it until water cleans up. Thank you all 
In shallow lakes sometimes I turn it off ,its so loud. 
Why didn’t it tick last year? I saw a angler fishing last year in the fall and he said he pinched his wires and then his started ticking real bad. I thought maybe I had a pinch wire from wire ties to tight but not. The guy actually saw his wire get pinched and after it got pinched he said it was so loud of a ticking noise that I told him I could hear it 10 yards aways in my boat, that sounded just like mine now but maybe not as loud because that was loud. What ever I know it’s not the same and something wrong. This isn’t my first rodeo and if I wait to long the warrentie expires I also got another ticking noise by the handle which you release the trolling motor to go in the water inside where the battery test is, must be a elec board in there that’s making the nosie. 
Only happens when I hit the go button. It’s a different tick than the transducer more like a chrip and know it’s not a bird 
Thanks to all for all replies and Happy Easter
You very well could have pinched the cable. I had similar experience with an ice ducer. I accidentally sliced the casing (no wires cut) and it clicked so loud I could not stand it.
Where is the loud clicking coming from when the transducer is in the water? Is it sounding off out of the water, off the cord, or echoing out of the trolling motor?
echoing out of the trolling motor and the only thing I did different this year is I had the marine put in new batteries.
This is a reply from MinnKota –
Jeff,
A ticking sound coming from the transducer is actually very normal. Some transducers are more audible than others, but there really isn’t anything that can be done to adjust or change the noise.
As to the chirping that you hear when the motor is running, I suspect that you have a Co Pilot system installed. The Co Pilot has three different audio modes and you have probably, accidentally, changed it to the next setting. You can change from one setting to the next by holding both speed control buttons down at the same time for two seconds. When it changes, it will chirp one, two or three times to indicate which mode it is in. I am attaching a Co Pilot manual so that you can see what each of the three modes will do.
Best regards,
Ryan
It is a Co pilot and tonight I will try to fix.
Thank you everyone for being so helpful, great gang here on IDO. 
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