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I bought an HDS5 because it was loaded with features. However, I immediately had problems with the sonar. It would freeze up and/or display nonsense vertical bars of color. It also turned itself on and off spontaneously, draining the battery when the boat was garaged. I figured that the odds of this happening again were slim, so I exchanged it for another unit and had the same freezing/vertical bar problem. The customer service guy explained that the model can do that sometimes in shallow water, but (a) I want my fishfinder to work in shallow water; and (b) it would fail to return to normal function even if I was in water I knew to be 40 feet deep. Don’t be tempted by the gee-whiz features of the HDS5, get a Humminbird or something instead.
I used my combo unit guiding for bass and walleye this past summer. The sonar is better than my Humminbird 787 except there is no fish alarm on the HDS unit for some reason. I miss that feature and don’t know why Lowrance omitted it given all the other alarms the unit sports. Identifying fish is easy and the color systems are well designed.
But when I switch to the chart screen, I am disappointed. The built-in Lowrance charts use blue depth contour lines on light blue backgrounds…not a good color contrast scheme and there is no way to darken the depth contours or change colors as confirmed by Lowrance tech support. I have a harder time seeing structure compared to the Humminbird unit that uses black for depth contours. When I use Navionics charts in the HDS things are not any easier to interpret. Again, there should be better color contrast between depth contours and backgrounds. I am probably going to add a Humminbird unit that can be used as a stand alone chartplotter and leave the HDS for fish finding only. If I had to do it over again I would opt for Humminbird all the way. Costly mistake!
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