salinia
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Garmin gmi 10 nmea 2000 system Airmar depthsounder is flashing on and off 57.6 meters which is wrong has anyone got any trouble shooting tips? I have tried turning it off at the battery and back on it makes no difference.
Garmin GMI 10/Airmar depth sounder. Help needed please.
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Ex-SolentBoy
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Assuming the transducer is clean and the N2K plug is not loose you have a faulty transducer.
Garmin have had a lot of problems with these from Airmar. I am on my fourth in 3 years. The support team are very good. Just call the support desk and they will switch it for you.
Assuming it is a Depth, Speed, Temperature transducer you might want to check the temperature reading as well. I had one that was reading a water temperature of 35 degrees C.
In Cornwall? I think not.
ex-Gladys
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Interesting onservation re Airmar. I'm on my 3rd log transducer from Tacktick - also Airmar....
salinia
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Thanks for that, looks like new transducer. Customer service number? Would that be Airmar or Garmin that you had such great service with?
Ex-SolentBoy
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Garmin. 023 8052 4000
krissteyn
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am about to spend a bunch of money on Garmin , was wondering if this was more common.
I think I will retain the existing working system as a backup.
Kris
I think I will retain the existing working system as a backup.
Kris
salinia
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Well the system installed on my trailer sailer Parker 235 by the previous owner was the Garmin GWS 10 Marine wind sensor Two of the GMI10 the Garmin GPS 17 and the Garmin/Airmar tri data -transducer all on the nmea 2000 system at a total cost of around £1400 fitted in July 2009 and has had little use by the previous owner. The transducer failed intermittently by giving a wrong depth reading throughout our sailing season last year and also gave us the same trouble this year. The problem was a fixed depth that could only be rectified by turning the main supply on and off, it finally gave up the ghost when it began to flash 57.6 meters and nothing I tried...cleaning/reconecting the plugs/ rebooting etc seemed to have an effect.
I rang Garmin customer services and was hopeful that they may have been financially sympathetic to my demise, however I was given some tips on what to look for and that the Airmar DST800 tri data was widely available from chandleries. I managed to source one at a cost of £248.68 from GBOutdoors I must remember to keep the receipt handy
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I rang Garmin customer services and was hopeful that they may have been financially sympathetic to my demise, however I was given some tips on what to look for and that the Airmar DST800 tri data was widely available from chandleries. I managed to source one at a cost of £248.68 from GBOutdoors I must remember to keep the receipt handy
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Sans Bateau
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The Garmin kit is good, and well priced. By what the other posts say, its an Airmar problem, not Garmin.
PS, mine works OK (at the moment
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salinia
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OutdoorGB have just e-mailed me apologising that they are temporarily out of stock and there is a two week delay in my order.
I have tried looking around for this product and even Garmin do not have a price/availability info on their website
I have tried looking around for this product and even Garmin do not have a price/availability info on their website
Sans Bateau
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Mmm, interesting, lots being replaced? Modified unit in production? 
salinia
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Well got to the bottom of the problem by replacing the transducer with a new one, there is quite a difference in the old and the new as you can see from the picture...black is the old one and blue is the new one.
I did not shop around enough for the replacement and paid £50 more than what I could have got it for from another chandlers that will teach me.
I did not shop around enough for the replacement and paid £50 more than what I could have got it for from another chandlers that will teach me.
Ex-SolentBoy
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Well got to the bottom of the problem by replacing the transducer with a new one, there is quite a difference in the old and the new as you can see from the picture...black is the old one and blue is the new one.
I did not shop around enough for the replacement and paid £50 more than what I could have got it for from another chandlers that will teach me.
It's just an NMEA 2000 cable. There are lots of different looking ones. They all do the same thing.