more 334 issues!!

Wade,

I talked to Ken at Smitty’s Marine who is putting my package together and he said he’s sold at least 20 of the 334C’s and has not heard of a problem with them. Maybe they’re working pretty good now. He thought that possibly windshields that have an aluminum frame could be causing some of the problems but that was just his guess.

Thanks for all the information.

Boone

Good to hear Boone. Time will tell. Let us know please.

Boone,

I heard the windshield theory too. The first unit I bought worked the same behind, on top of, aside, etc the windshield as if I held it 2 feet above my windshield.

The second unit (the one I have now) worked like garbage the first 1/2 day. Then it seemed to figure out what the heck it was supposed to be doing and it’s ran great ever since.

I was talking to another IDA’er at the gun club a few weeks back and he had a very similar experience as I had. Additionally, my uncle has a 334 and the first unit he had was garbage. Lowrance replaced it and it ran awesome (like mine) on Lac Seul in July.

From all that I can only start to lean towards thinking that the newer units are actually improved. If it works on the ice for me this winter as well as it’s working now I will be one fricken happy camper.

I’ll be interested in hearing how yours turn out. Also.. one more thought… if you can, check the date of manufacture on the unit they are equiping your boat with. Might give you an indication as to your success.

Goodluck!!

Is there a special package you can get for ice fishing?
With a Batt.,Trans.,etc.

Yap, Lowrance calls it the PPP-16I Portable Power Pack.

Includes the bag, base plate, battery, charger, ice ducer, and all the ducer bracket parts. Only thing it doesn’t come with is the gimbal bracket. It fits in a bucket. They even have an optional adapter that allows it to run off of D cells should your packs battery die.

It basically turns a unit like a 334c into a x68i but with a bigger screen… that way a guy doesn’t have money into both his boat sonar/gps AND an ice sonar/gps because they are the same unit!