Leaving it on?

[liphunter]

I was told that if you were to leave your transducer on, out of the water. Like if you pull you trolling motor up and forget to shut your unit off. It could possibly damage your transducer or your unit. This might have already been asked, but I haven't found it. Nothing in my manuals say anything about that. For anyone that knows. Is there a potential for damage when leaving your sonar unit transmitting out of the water? TIA 

Mike

[bfishn]

You were told wrong. No consequences.

On the other hand, powering up your sonar with the transducer unplugged could be bad news...

[176champion]

I leave unit on all the time, when in the water or out of the water with no issues and when im done for the day then i shut it off.

[Dutch]

42 minutes ago, bfishn said:

You were told wrong. No consequences.

On the other hand, powering up your sonar with the transducer unplugged could be bad news...

Why would this be bad news?  I have one unit that has no 2d sonar.  It is strictly used for mapping.

[bfishn]

2 hours ago, bfishn said:

...could be bad news...

If your unit can sense when there's no transducer and shut the transmitter down to the appropriate port, you'll be fine. Lots of new units do that, especially anything that will network. Older standalones often don't have that ability, so you're trying to transmit a lot of watts to no load... like keying a radio transmitter with no antenna hooked up, something's gonna give.