Twins Guy wrote:

sounds like you’re aware of the down/left/right selection i was thinking of.

like any transducer it does have a “cone” or field of view. it sounds like these objects should fall in that cone. this really is beyond my area of expertise (i checked this thread hoping to learn something myself) but i don’t want to abandon you-in this time of need-until a superuser comes to save the day.

screen images to decipher/help interpret what you’re seeing might be useful if you could snap a shot with your camera phone. also pics of the installation might be useful. but those would require access to the boat and a body of water and may not be so easily obtained.

tg

Ya I was smacking myself for not taking any pics when I put it all together, and when I was driving around for hours in the boat not seeing what I thought I should be seeing. I watched a few more youtube vids yesterday and I don’t know what to think. A couple people mounted the lss-2 right next to their skimmer transducer and what looks to me like in a place where the motor would interfere.

Other people went so far as to take a level out on the boat and then jacked the trailer up in the garage to the same level before mounting. If it requires that much mounting precision then that could be my problem. My boat has so many curves and angles on every surface I’m not even sure how I would figure out where “level” is. Even the side of the boat (the “rail”) isn’t straight. Also the LSS-2 is angled slightly to the right due to the transom not being flat. I don’t even know how to solve that problem…spacers/washers, or rip my mounting plate off and angle it perfectly somehow? The only way I could mount it straight is to mount it right by the motor where the transom is flat.

I also saw a couple people that mounted it backwards with the wire sticking out the rear so the wire wouldn’t create interference through the water, then they used the flip left/right option. All I did was slapped it on my transom and used a ruler from the bottom of the boat to eyeball it.

I will try to take some pics today of the HDS.

Is it possible to have the LSS-2 too low? Maybe it’s too far down into the water and that combined with the weeds is screwing it up? Looking at my transducer mounting plate it looks like the LSS-2 is only about 3 inches to the left of the 83/200 and below it. How close is too close where it would mess up the 83/200 chirp or the LSS-2?

Twins Guy wrote:

i have a gen2 HDS (touchscreen so its a little different but similar enough) and when you are in structure mode you have the option of displaying down or side images (and left or right as the captain mentioned). could that setting be off?

I’m not real sure if you’re talking about something I don’t know or if you just mean the usual structure mode options, because if it was turned off I wouldn’t see anything would I? If I have it set to “down” I see down scan images going by with weeds and the lake bottom contour. If I set it to left/right or left or right I can see stuff….in the center I see one thick line and one skinny line next to it where the boat is (I wanted to ask about that too, does the second line mean it’s seeing the motor or the other transducer?), then in the water column you can see weeds and other “stuff” but in the left/right mode is what I tried to see the logs and pilings with and couldn’t see anything different on screen. That’s the confusing part for me, I’ve read about Structurescan and looked at a lot of screenshots and youtube videos and it looks like it’s working perfectly, but if I can’t even see a huge log that I KNOW is there, what exactly am I seeing on screen?

Also our lake is filled with fish, you can see bass and blue gill swimming around all over, so to not see any clear fish indicators on down scan or side scan and especially not to see arches on chirp makes me think something is messed up in my hardware configuration.

CaptainMusky wrote:

Try using the 455Hz setting instead of the 800. I have had better luck with it anyway.
When you go past these items are you displaying both side images or just one? The reason I ask is its possible that the images are flipped where left is actually right and vice versa. You can change this in the settings.
Try messing around with the contrast. This is basically like sensitivity in the traditional sonar mode.
Do you only notice those issues with the CHIRP, when in “chirp” mode? How about if you just try using 200? Maybe bypass the sonar hub and plug the transducer directly into the display and see how it works??

Sorry I wasn’t very clear. I was using sidescan left/right on 800khz to try to see the 15+ foot log, pilings, and buoy anchors. I drove within a couple feet of it in both directions and it never showed up. Same with the docks with pilings. I tried 455 but when I noticed it wasn’t quite as detailed I switched back to 800, but I didn’t try seeing those known objects with 455…still I would think 800 should see a giant log right next to the boat. I’ll try messing with the contrast, but again, I would think those objects would be pretty visible. Lowrance tech support told me to plug both transducers into the Sonarhub, but I could try connecting the 83/200 direct to the HDS.