Transducer not working right in shallows

[Argyle38]

I have an Airmar B45 depth and temp transducer powered by a Raymarine DSM300 and displayed on a E90W.


Lately whenever the boat is in shallow water, below around 15' or so, the signal seems to go haywire. Below is a picture of what I see from the MFD. Not that the depth is not reading anything. I was probably in around 9'-12' of water at that point.



The problem seems to go away in deeper when both the depth and the graphical fish finding functions seem to work properly.



Has anyone seen behavior like this before?

[Argyle38]

Gonna bump this one time to get it one more pass through the front page.

[billknny]

The behavior you are seeing on the screen is the device "hunting" for a signal it recognizes as the bottom, and not finding it.

Is it possible that you have changed settings somewhere? Gain? or TVG?

[Argyle38]

Originally Posted by billknny

The behavior you are seeing on the screen is the device "hunting" for a signal it recognizes as the bottom, and not finding it.

Is it possible that you have changed settings somewhere? Gain? or TVG?

I didn't change any settings when I first noticed it. I've tried to tweak some settings in trying to mitigate the issue, with inconsistent success.



I have a weak suspicion that I might have too much build up of transducer paint. It seems like that might be something that would cause 'searching' behavior. Not sure though.