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I am having a difficult time setting my depth gauge that my 220-H came with. Does anyone have easier way of setting the gauge propery. The stupid thing keeps beeping at me and the instructions suck at explaining how to set the thing.

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2006, 220 Horizon
Kent, WA.
"Semper Fidelis"

The transducers on these are very sensitive and all it takes is a bubble trapped under them to throw them off. One thing people should do is get under there and carefully trim off any excess 5200 that squeezed out when they installed it. There was quite a bit on mine. I've had a lot less trouble with 3' readings in the center of a known 200' deep lake since I trimmed that off. As to the instructions, yeah, they suck.

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

http://faria-instruments.com/site_manuals/IS0091F.pdf

Are these the instructions you have?

Mike, those could be really tall trees!!

Also, I've found on both this boat and others I've had that a little lubricant in the water will foul that thing pretty quickly. Sometimes a little spill at the marina can do that. I make it a habit to wipe that thing off after a weekend where I slipped the boat overnight. If you trailer it often enough, I'd recommend that practice.

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Paul
2007 Four Winns Horizon 220
Mercruiser 350 Mag MPI w/ Bravo III Drive
2004 Ford Explorer Limited (V8-AWD)
Pomme de Terre Lake (Southwest Missouri)

So you wipe the hull off where the thur-hull transducer is transmitting thur the hull. That has got to be one nasty marina to defuse your transducer with a coat of oil.

Most of these transducers are mounted in the hull, as in the surface of it is exposed directly to the water. They're sealed to the hull with 5200, which is where my comment came from on trimming off the excess. I've also done what Paul suggested, which is an excellent idea.

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

Not my local marina, but I've had it happen to my other 2 boats over the years at Lake of the Ozarks, which is pretty well known for having pretty nasty water.

Also happened at a local lake here in KC once when they had a guy spewing gear lube when he pulled up to marina. We were the lucky folks who followed him in. Luckily, that was on my little aluminum fishing boat so there was no stress over it.

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Paul
2007 Four Winns Horizon 220
Mercruiser 350 Mag MPI w/ Bravo III Drive
2004 Ford Explorer Limited (V8-AWD)
Pomme de Terre Lake (Southwest Missouri)

There is more information at the FW Site @ bottom:

http://www.fourwinns.net/ownman/index.html


Hope it helps!

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Jeff

2006 Four Winns Yellow Horizon 30th Anniversary 200 SS
2005 Nissan Titan Crew Cab
2004 Ford F-150 Lariat

http://www.seabrook-services.com