Lowrance Elite 5X Operation Manual

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Installation & Operation manual Elite 5X, Mark 5X, Mark 5X Pro & Elite 4X Operation manual SONAR ONLY COVER_.indd 1 9/13/2011 10:02:05 PM ...

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Copyright © 2011 Navico All rights reserved. Lowrance® and Navico® are registered trademarks of Navico. Navico may nd it necessary to change or end our policies, regulations and special oers at any time. We reserve the right to do so witho...

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1 Table of Contents Introduction ...................................... 2 Basic Operation ............................... 3 Setup wizard ............................................3 Working with menus ................................4 Fishing Mode ....

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2 Introduction Getting Started Turn unit on/off To turn on/off the unit, press and hold the LIGHT/ POWER key for three seconds. Adjusting the backlight This unit has 10 backlight levels. Press the LIGHT/ POWER key to switch backlight levels. ...

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3 Basic Operation Setup wizard The Setup wizard will appear when the unit is turned on for the rst time. To choose your own settings, do not run the setup wizard. To restart the Setup wizard, restore defaults. Accessing Sonar menu Accessing th...

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4 Basic Operation On/Off features Select an on/o menu item and press ENTER to turn it on/o. Dropdown menus After accessing the dropdown menu, press the keypad up/ down to select the desired item and press ENTER. Accessing menu items The key...

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5 Basic Operation To input text: 1. Use the keypad to select the desired character and press ENTER. 2. Repeat Step 1 for each character. 3. When entry is completed, highlight OK and press ENTER. Fishing Mode Fishing modes enhance the perf...

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6 Basic Operation Advanced Mode Enables advanced features and settings. The following features are enabled when Advanced mode is turned on: • Colorline (manual control) • Surface Clarity (manual control) • Ping Rate (manual control) • ...

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7 Basic Operation Standby mode Lowers power consumption by turning o sonar and the display. Press the PWR/LIGHT key to ac- cess the Backlight menu. Select Standby and press ENTER. Press any key to resume normal op- eration. Restore defaults R...

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8 Pages Sonar Page Displays the water column moving from right to left on your unit’s screen. On the right side of the screen, the Amplitude Scope bar previews echoes about to appear on the display. Fish arches Surface Clutter Overlay Data Cur...

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9 Pages Overlay Data Displays selected overlay data on the sonar page. Show Enables/disables the display of overlay data, allow- ing you to remove overlay data from the screen without deleting the selected overlay data con- guration. Congure U...

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10 Pages To select overlay data: 1. From the sonar page, press MENU. 2. Select Overlay data and press ENTER. 3. Select Congure and press ENTER. 4. Press Menu and select Add. Press ENTER. 5. Select the desired data from the Con- �...

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11 Sonar Move the blue sonar history bar all the way to the right to resume normal sonar scrolling. Press MENU and select Exit cursor mode to re- move the cursor from the screen. Sonar Menu The sonar menu has options and settings that aect the...

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12 Sonar Press MENU from any sonar page to access the So- nar menu. Adjust (Advanced Mode only) Used to make adjustments to Sensitivity, Colorline and Grayline. Sonar Menu (Advanced Mode) Sensitivity Controls the level of detail shown on the displa...

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13 Sonar Mark series units have a monochrome display, so wide bands of gray indicate a hard sonar return, while softer returns are shown as dark, narrow areas. Auto Sensitivity Keeps sensitivity at a level that works well under most conditions, redu...

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14 Sonar Split FlasherSplit Zoom Frequency Controls the transducer frequency used by the unit. This unit supports two frequencies: 200kHz and 83kHz. 200 kHz has the highest sensitivity and best tar- get discrimination in shallow water. 83 kHz o�...

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15 Sonar Fish ID Displays sh echoes as sh sym- bols instead of sh arches. Fish ID is not the most accurate method of sh detection since structure and suspended debris may be shown as a sh symbol on the display. Ice Mode Turns on a...

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16 Sonar Overlay Data Allows you to select data (wa- ter temperature, depth, etc) to be displayed on top of the Sonar screen. Overlay data setup is covered in the Pages section. Settings Accesses the Sonar settings menu. Overlay data SONAR only....

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17 Settings Settings Menu Accesses to installation and conguration settings for your unit. System Adjusts unit settings like language, mute audio and advanced mode. Settings menu Enables advanced features and settings Displays software ...

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18 Settings Set Language Selects the language used on menus and text boxes. Mute Audio Turns on/o unit audio, like key beeps, alarm sounds, etc. Advanced Mode Enables features and settings only available with unit in Advanced Mode. Restore Def...

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19 Settings Sonar Used to make adjustments to Sonar options and display settings like Noise Rejection, Surface and Fishing Mode. Noise Rejection Uses advanced signal processing to monitor the ef- fects noise (boat pumps, water conditions, engine ...

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20 Settings Installation Provides access to Keel Oset and Temp Calibration settings. Keel Offset All transducers measure water depth from the transducer to the bottom. As a result, water depth readings do not account for the distance from the ...

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21 Settings Before setting keel oset, measure the distance from the transducer to the lowest part of the keel. If, for example, the keel is 3.5 feet below the trans- ducer, it will be input as –3.5 feet. Temperature calibration Calibrates data...

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22 Index A About 18 Advanced Mode 6 Alarms 21 Fish 21 Shallow 21 Amplitude Scope 15 Auto Sensitivity 13 C Color 15 Colorline 12 Cursor 6 Custom Range 13 D Depth Range 13 Dialogs 5 Dropdown menus 4 F Fish alarm 21 Fish ID 15 Fishing Mo...

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Specications Elite 5x, Mark 5x & Mark 5x Pro General Case size 5.4” H (134mm) x 6.8” W (174mm); 6” H (152mm) with bracket Display Mark: (5” diagonal) High-contrast lm Supertwist LCD; 16-level grayscale denition; 480x480 monoch...

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Specications Elite 4x General Case size 5.6” H (144mm) x 3.7” W (94.3mm); 6.4” H (164mm) with bracket Display (3.5” diagonal) 320x240 (256 color) TFT LCD Backlight White LED (10 levels) Power Transmit power 2100W PTP; 262W RMS Power r...

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How to Obtain Service… …in the USA: Contact the Factory Customer Service Department. Call toll-free: 800-324-1356 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Standard Time, M-F Navico may nd it necessary to change or end shipping policies, regulations and speci...

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