Hello, All:
I'm working on reverse engineering the remote, floating sender (433 MHz xmit) for a fish finder found on eBay, and have stumbled across what could be a critical component that is not in any data base I can find.
It is a three pin package the end of the 125 kHz receive amplifier chain, identified with the marking "RRN" and Q4 on the PCB (far left in photo below). Using the diode check function on a multimeter, it could be a bipolar NPN transistor, but I measure 0.8V from pin 1 to 2 and 1 to 3, as opposed to the 0.71V for the other three NPN transistors on the board.
I'm puzzled by what appears to be a grounded collector, but it seems possible that the "transistor" is being used as a diode switch.
The function of the device appears to be switched on via pin 10 from the MCU, which provides a 60 ms(*) 3V pulse, presumably to gate the output of the amplifier to pin 6 of the MCU.
Comments appreciated!
(*) 60 ms is the expected return time of an echo from an object in water, 45 m distant, which is consistent with the stated maximum range of the sonar unit.
EDIT: schematic is missing a 100K resistor from MCU pin 6 to GND (see post below).