Todd Driscoll

Yes, you can loosen the tension to see if this helps. The tension adjustment screw is located on the left side of the pedal. Also, apply a little WD-40 silicone spray on the friction points and brake disc. Access the brake disc through the underside of the pedal. Apply a little silicone to your finger and rub some on the disc. Just a little. Excess silicone may reduce the brake disc friction too much and result in the pedal being too loose.

When first connecting a Yamaha SHO via NMEA, these engine alarm popups are expected. Although I don't recall the exact menu choices available on the alarm popups, you should be able to permanently dismiss them from the popup menu for each alarm.

Your initial suspicion regarding the lack of a bottom/splashplate cover on the SlideMaster jackplate is almost certainly the cause of your issue. Beam kickback from within the jackplate frame is most likely causing the interference you are only seeing on the shallow portion of the left SideVu return.

The older nonCHIRP and CHIRP Echomap units will not network with the newer Plus, UHD, UHD2, and Ultra Echomaps.

Yes on the transducer. Either get the Ultra with the latest and greatest all-in-one GT56 (if you read 2D sonar from the transom), or purchase the GT36/GT8 combo separately to read your 2D sonar from the inhull mounting of the GT8 (for fiberglass boats), and your scanning sonar from the transom-mounted GT36. You get a y-cable with this bundle to connect both transducers to the Ultra unit. See link below to purchase this bundle: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/735593

With the Echomap Chirp, the ethernet connection is for Panoptix only (no networking). All later Echomap generations are compatible with ethernet sharing (Plus, UHD, Ultra, UHD2).

It certainly could be the head unit that is faulty, but more often this issue is related to power supply (power cable, connections, fuse, or cradle). If you have access to another unit, try it in your current cradle to help troubleshoot your issue.

Appreciate it! Always glad to help.

You need to get your user data into the universal GPX format, then it will be a straight import into Garmin. I am not familiar with Humminbird, but you can search the internet for various ways to make the conversion of your Humminbird file to GPX. Relative to mapping advice, I need to know which specific Garmin units you have. The newest ones have Garmin Navionics mapping built in, so the exact units you have will dictate which mapping card would be most useful.

A Canada LakeVu mapping card would be your only option (other than recording your own mapping with QuickDraw). However, when I searched for this lake at the Garmin mapping search function below, nothing was found which would mean there is no supported mapping. https://lakes.garmin.com/

No question, your unit will show the hydrilla and the true bottom. First, you want to run a manual sensitivity setting around 55-70. Then run a manual depth range 5 feet or so deeper than the bottom. Here, you should be able to see the hydrilla height, along with the actual lake bottom. This "issue" affects all brands of sonar and is just due to the thickness of hydrilla growth later in the growing season when it is at its thickest. Running any brand in complete Auto mode over the top of thick hydrilla will result in what you are currently seeing.

The LakeVu g3 Ultra is split into and East and West card. Here is the coverage for the East: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/667388#coverage You can order direct from the garmin site above. Or, try BBG Marine: https://bbgmarine.com/

This feature is called Dynamic Lake Level. You need the LakeVu g3 Ultra accessory map card for this feature.

It is taking longer to work through the transducer changeover from CV to GT and ramp back up production than Garmin originally planned. I show a 5-8 week wait on the Garmin website. This is an estimate and they hope to beat that. Exact, reliable dates cannot be provided yet.

With echomap Plus units and ethernet-sharing, yes you can link 3+ units together. But, with the older echomaps and Strikers and Garmin High Speed Protocol sharing (blue/brown wires on PWR cable), you can only link two units.

In order to see Depth Range Shading, be sure to select the Fishing Chart. The Navigation Chart is used for Navigation and shallow areas are shaded using the Shallow Shading feature. As long as your combos include a Fishing Chart, depth range shading will appear. This assumes that you have 2017 or newer Cartography. If you have older cartography, then you will need to use the Navigation Chart for Depth Range Shading.

No question, the down element in the GT transducer is used.

Right. Both the nonCHIRP and CHIRP echoMAPs will only share wpts and routes via High Speed Protocol (blue/brown wires on unit PWR cables). These units will not share with the newest Plus units that use ethernet to share user data and sonar. Plus units only network with other Plus units.

Simply put, if it is moving it's a fish. I'm not an ice angler, but have been using Panoptix since the beginning. I do know ice anglers have been raving about this bundle on other forums.

QuickDraw contour recordings are laid over your built-in contours, but you don't "lose" anything. You can simply toggle the QuickDraw contours display on or off in the menu at any time to view the built-in LakeVu mapping. Yes, you can simply record all your QuickDraw Contours to the Ultra card itself.

Right, you don't necessarily need the actual Garmin data sharing cable to complete the wiring. But I would recommend using marine rated wire to make this connection. Of course, the cable from Garmin is marine rated, and includes 3 wires within the single sheathing. For nearly all installations you only need to use two of those three wires of the Garmin cable (the third wire is to establish a common ground between the two echoMAPs, but nearly all bass boat installations will already have this established between the two units).

About networking, the Garmin echoMAP units do not provide Ethernet networking. The echoMAP CHIRP units do have NMEA 2000 networking, while the nonCHIRP echoMAPs do not. All that will share between echoMAPs are waypoints, and waypoints are only shared with Garmin High Speed Protocol. You do this by connecting the the blue and brown wires on the unit power cables together as I describe above, then making sure that data sharing is enabled on both units. Garmin offers the data sharing cable to connect the wires at the link below. https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/pn/010-12234-06

You can share wpts between the two units using Garmin High Speed Protocol and the blue/brown wires on the unit power cables. Connect blue to brown, brown to blue between the two units.

First, download Garmin Homeport software: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/64242 Then directly import the Google Earth .kmz file into Homeport. Once the .kmz file is loaded, insert your SD card in the computer, then simply drag/drop this imported .kmz file on the card. The file will then be saved in .adm (Garmin proprietary format).

I also verified that the trolling motor adapter made for the GT30 will also work with the GT40. This would be your best option relative to minimizing potential impact damage to the ducer. This adapter is part number 010-12105-10. This pic is actually the adapter with a GT30, but again, it will also work with the GT40.