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thanks for the info, i understand what your saying.not sure how your going thru them so fast, but the digital units have very little room to try to put them back on their parking spot. then with the arm that swings in with it that could be causing stress beaks on your cable. the top of the transducer hits the head unit too easily trying to shove it back onto the shuttle. the carry case tries to keep the angle of the head unit at the same position so the front of the case closes over it and this tends to keep the head unit too close to the top of the transducer while taking it out of the case or putting it back into it.i don't like how this space is used, so i just lay the transducer on its side when putting it back on the parking spot and problem solved. no stress is put on top of the transducer at all this way. keeping it just barely in the water helps with cuts and fish hurting it too while landing them.another situation might be if you wrap your transducer cable around the arm and then try to stow it back onto the cradle this way, it could also pinch cut the cable as well.hb transducer cables are even softer casings than marcum uses.
I was worried you weren't going to get a dig in at HB but you came through at the very end.