Clicking sound from transducer

That is what they do. Make sound waves that bounce off remote objects and reflect back to the transducer where the echoes are received and displayed on the screen. Most cant hear them. I have seen one of the new CHIRP units I could hear as they broadcast a LOT of different frequencies in an effort to produce hi-def images and probe to deeper depths as well. The frequencies these things produce are pretty high for the most part, but some of that energy is attenuated through the transducer material and can become audible.2008 Pantera Classic2014 Mercury Pro XS 200

Most, if not all, transducers make a clicking noise when they are working.

You can feel it thumping with your hand on all transducers if they are working. They must have the pinging to send the signal.

Wheres the transducer? On The TM? Check the mount. Anything can click, given a sonic shock, which the transducers definitely produce. But many I have used certainly produced vibration if you listen/feel carefully enough. The console units are probably (a) shoot-thru-hull for one, and when you glass a transducer to the hull, that greatly isolates any sounds from you since it is inside an enclosed bilge cavity and surrounded by a bunch of glass/carpet/lids/etc. (b) The external transducer (my side-imaging transducer) is hung off the back of the boat separating it from me by 8-10 of boat, hull, motor and such. On the front, I am standing right over the thing. Lots of things within a TM that can make noises when vibrated. And it can be conducted right up the TM shaft where the head or part of the bow can act like a speaker cone.If this has changed from a day ago, Id check for a loose TM mount, or something else between where the tranducer is mounted up to the hull where you stand. But chances are it is not anything that will cause a problem. Mainly would be annoying if it is new. More specifics on how you hear this. Transducer OUT of the water? They arent intended to be run like that, as one possible example…Last edited by oldtimer57 on November 26th, 2016, 5:02 am, edited 1 time in total.2008 Pantera Classic2014 Mercury Pro XS 200

Every boat Ive ever had did this. Can here the TM ducer bouncing off the metal shop door. Its what they do. Ive always been conscientious of this and in a lot of the shallow lakes we fish I just turn my sonar off. Ive heard fish can here it and Ive heard they cant. Nothing is wrong with your unit go out and enjoy it.