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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 373371" data-attributes="member: 389">Ok, so I bought a Garmin just to try something different up in the bow of the boat.&nbsp; While it came with the sidescan transducer, I wanted to hook it up to the Minnkota universal transducer.&nbsp; So, the fella at Scheels handed me an adapter, one that is split so you can hook up the Garmin transducer and Y's off to connect to the Minnkota.For the love of all that's holy, I haven't been able to get it configured and read the Minnkota transducer. If I just hook it up to the Minnkota and go into the sonar screen it just kicks me out saying no transducer connected.&nbsp; Note, the old Lowrance unit saw it just fine up until it died, so I am pretty sure the transducer works.If I hook up both the Garmin transducer and the Minnkota using the Y cable, the unit sees the Garmin just fine and allows me to go into the settings to choose the Minnkota, but I am guessing it's just operating on the Garmin transducer with the Minnkota settings and not actually seeing the Minnkota transducer as the sonar changes a little but I don't know for sure that it's actually trying to see the Minnkota.Anyone out there have any suggestions on what to try next?&nbsp; Maybe a different adapter?&nbsp; I don't know why, or under what conditions I would have two transducers connected to the head unit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 373371, member: 389"] Ok, so I bought a Garmin just to try something different up in the bow of the boat. While it came with the sidescan transducer, I wanted to hook it up to the Minnkota universal transducer. So, the fella at Scheels handed me an adapter, one that is split so you can hook up the Garmin transducer and Y's off to connect to the Minnkota. For the love of all that's holy, I haven't been able to get it configured and read the Minnkota transducer. If I just hook it up to the Minnkota and go into the sonar screen it just kicks me out saying no transducer connected. Note, the old Lowrance unit saw it just fine up until it died, so I am pretty sure the transducer works. If I hook up both the Garmin transducer and the Minnkota using the Y cable, the unit sees the Garmin just fine and allows me to go into the settings to choose the Minnkota, but I am guessing it's just operating on the Garmin transducer with the Minnkota settings and not actually seeing the Minnkota transducer as the sonar changes a little but I don't know for sure that it's actually trying to see the Minnkota. Anyone out there have any suggestions on what to try next? Maybe a different adapter? I don't know why, or under what conditions I would have two transducers connected to the head unit. [/QUOTE]

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