Furuno 1720 Radar

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I'm still trying to get mine to work. (Never shown images since I got the boat in 2003). Appears that the display unit works - shows noise. I suspect the transmit part of the radome is the problem. The solution offered locally is basically to keep changing components until it works which could easily mean spending more that the unit is worth. I have therefore been trying to source a 2nd hand radome unit without success - anyone got any pointers / links to sites that might list that kind of stuff?

I've tried ebay but that tends to list complete units which are either expensive or "as is" with no representation that they operate. Also tried "wanted" on this forum a couple of times.
 

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I take it you've tried the obvious, like the cable connections. A friend of mine couldn't get his to work, all appeared ok except no image, he paid for an engineer to check it out and was told it was beyond repair.
When I went to remove it for him I discovered one of the wires (the signal wire) was broken, fixed it and it worked perfectly.
 

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Yeh, I have - the cabling is fine, it's been installed without splicing as well - i.e. the cable from the radome to the plug on the back of the display unit is continuous.
 
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