LSS-1 problem

[bonefish10]

Hi, I installed an HDS8 with structure scan and a sirrius weather antenna about 6 weeks ago, on my first test run the entire unit shut down twice and restarted. I took the boat to the keys for a week, didn't get to fish much because of the wind but had no issues with anything the times I did get to go out. Went out locally today and was using structure scan to try and find some rockpiles, just found my first one and I start getting intermittant NO SOURCE errors then after a few minutes it became permenant.. I'm back home and just tried to bring up the weather overlay and get a message NO MODULE DETECTED so it looks like it is the module itself not the transducer.

I'm about to start contacting Lowrance and hopefully they will agree and let me send in the module only for exchange as ripping out the transducer will be a pain.

I did think of going to buy a spare ethernet cable to run from the module to the HDS to see if I could get lucky with a simple fix.

Any thought from anyone before I start the customer service circus ??????. Thanks.

[bonefish10]

Sadly it looks like the module is yet another bad one. Tried switching the ports around made no difference. On the origional ports the problem is back to being intermittant, some times weather and structure work sometimes one or the other.

[The Kid]

I have the same issue. Need to contact Lowrance as well.

Mine is close to a year old.

Sometimes a power cycle will bring it back. Sometimes not.

Arghh.

[czopper]

My LSS-1 stopped working after two weeks. Troubleshooted with Lowrance yesterday. They said it's either a bad power cable to the LSS or a bad Ethernet cable. Lowrance will send me a power cable and BOE Marine is over nighting me the Ethernet cable. I will post once I test over the weekend.

[bonefish10]

Originally Posted by czopper

My LSS-1 stopped working after two weeks. Troubleshooted with Lowrance yesterday. They said it's either a bad power cable to the LSS or a bad Ethernet cable. Lowrance will send me a power cable and BOE Marine is over nighting me the Ethernet cable. I will post once I test over the weekend.

I'm going to call them after work today. hopefully mine will just be a cable issue too as there have been some threads here and elsewhere about replacement lss-1's not being available.

[TerryS]

be carefull with those enet wires you do not want to put hard bends in them, 4 inch radius min. is what they say.

[budbrande]

Is your HDS8 a Gen1 or Gen2? The Gen2 units had an issue with re-booting but there is a firmware update that fixes the problem. I have first hand knowledge of this because my unit was doing it before I updated it! Hopefully it will be easy to solve.

[bonefish10]

Originally Posted by budbrande

Is your HDS8 a Gen1 or Gen2? The Gen2 units had an issue with re-booting but there is a firmware update that fixes the problem. I have first hand knowledge of this because my unit was doing it before I updated it! Hopefully it will be easy to solve.

Thanks, I will have to look into that. Mine is a gen 2 only 6 weeks old but who knows how long it was in stock for. Of course now I am home the structurescan and weather seem to be working fine everytime I turn it on however much I jiggle the wires fuses etc so it's kind of hard to call Lowrance support. Sods law says as soon as I hit the water again it will start acting up.