Fish finder question.

I don’t turn mine off unless I’m going for a long run.

Bearcat89 wrote:

I don’t turn mine off unless I’m going for a long run.

Same. If its just a short jaunt to the next spot, I leave mine on, which is the case on most smaller lakes. On a bigger lake, when I have to go farther, I turn it off.

I leave mine on.

Humminbird has a Standby mode that I use for long runs. Press the Power button like you were shutting it down and on the pop-up menu chose Standby. To power back on just tap the power button and back in business.

I have an older unit on the trolling motor / bow and sometimes if I don’t turn it off it will lock up on me. So I just shut it off. I will have to try the standby mode.

Never turn Garmin off unless I know I’m not going to use it for a long time and it hasn’t hurt it.

I know when I had my Garmin installed by a rigging company he shut off the pinging while setting up cause it could damage something, but I thought that was because the concrete was just below it and being a hard surface it would do harm? Not really sure, mine was already wired for a Lowrance and that is what I run when I use the bow graph, it was set up to shut off power when you start the big motor. To be honest I only run that one sometimes, most days I just run my two on the console.

Thank you all!!!