Dewayne French Posted October 2, 2020 Posted October 2, 2020 Just a quick question to yall who use it? I have 2-helix 10's DI at the bow, SI at the console. I use the stand by mode some times, but does it really save power, mostly the console? Just one of those random thoughts I have from time to time. Thanks for the info that everyone put out on this site and the help.
fishinwrench Posted October 2, 2020 Posted October 2, 2020 The Lowrance units kill the power. I wondered the same thing so I put a voltmeter on the battery to see if the voltage draw stopped when I hit standby.....it does. Shuts down but saves all the settings.
Dutch Posted October 2, 2020 Posted October 2, 2020 I never do that. What is the reasoning for putting a unit on standby.
fishinwrench Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 40 minutes ago, Dutch said: I never do that. What is the reasoning for putting a unit on standby. So that you can pop it back on and all of your modes and settings will be saved.
jdmidwest Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 I was thinking the thread was about putting Hummingbird feeders away for the winter instead of a Humminbird fish finder queston. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
Dutch Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 11 hours ago, fishinwrench said: So that you can pop it back on and all of your modes and settings will be saved. I don’t quite understand. How would you lose modes and settings. I leave mine on all day long.
MrGiggles Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Dutch said: I don’t quite understand. How would you lose modes and settings. I leave mine on all day long. I think it's more that is saves the mode that you were on, and you have to hold the power button on a Bird for like 3 seconds before it will shut down, and it takes a while to boot back up. It can take a couple minutes for it to connect to GPS too. I would use it, as I get some interference when both the bow and console units are on at the same time, but I don't think my older Helix has it. -Austin
Dutch Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 50 minutes ago, MrGiggles said: I think it's more that is saves the mode that you were on, and you have to hold the power button on a Bird for like 3 seconds before it will shut down, and it takes a while to boot back up. It can take a couple minutes for it to connect to GPS too. I would use it, as I get some interference when both the bow and console units are on at the same time, but I don't think my older Helix has it. Ok I wasn’t thinking about what screen configuration it might be set on. I haven’t seen any cross talk on my Solix units so I just leave them on.
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