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X-25 INSTALLATION AND OPERATION INSTRUCTIONS LITHO IN U.S.A. 988-0105-33 LOWRANCE ELECTRONICS, INC. 12000 E. SKELLY DR., TULSA, OK 74128 PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfC.
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N 0 T ES TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 INSTALLATION 1 POWER CONNECTIONS 2 SPEED/TERMPERATURE SENSOR 3 KEYBOARD BASICS 4 DISPLAY 5 MENUS 5 OPERATION 6 AUTOMATIC 6 RANGE 6 ZOOM - Automatic Operation .
4. The boat must be moving at aslowtrolling speed to seefish arches. If the boat Is motionless, fish stay in the cone, showing on the display as straight horizontal lines. ELECTRICAL NOISE A major cause of sonar problems is electrical noise. This usually appears on the sonar's display as random patterns of dots or lines.
Weak bottom echo, digital readings erratic, or no fish signals (cont.): INTRODUCTION 2. Electrical noisefromthe boat's motorcan interfere with the sonar. Thiscauses the sonar to automatically increase its Discrimination or noise rejection feature.
a one inch hole. TherefOre, after drilling the hole, pass the transducer connector up through the hole from under the dash. Then drop the power cable down from the front side of the dash. Slide the bracket over the hole, then route the transducer and power cables out the slots in the bracket.
SURVEYING A LAKE The most successful anglers on any body of water are those who fish it day after day and year after year. Eventually, they learn the hot spots that produce fish consistently. They discover through experi- ence where, and at what depth, they can expect to find the fish they want at any season.
KEYBOARD BASICS The unit sounds a tone when you press any key. This tells you the unit has accepted a command. ON/CLEAR Use this key to turn the unit on. It also clears menu selections and the menus from the screen. OFF This key turns the unit off. MENU The X-25 has many menus of features that are accessed with this key.
Very small fish probably will not arch at all. Medium sized fish will show a partial arch, or a shape similar to an arch if they're in deep water. Large fish will arch, but turn the sensitivity up in deeper water to see the arch. Because of water conditions, such as heavy, surface clutter, thermoclines, etc.
Menus change depending on the mode the unit is in. For example, if FISH ARCHES the automatic mode is turned off, the sensitivity menu changes from "AUTO SENS" to "MAN SENS." Other messages may appear in menu boxes or new menus can appear, again depending on previous selections.
Both 8 degree and 20 degree transducers give accurate bottom read- ings, even though the bottom signal is much wider on the 20 degree model. This is because you are seeing more of the bottom. Remem- ber, the shallow edge of the signal shows you the true depth.
Press the up arrow key to decrease the zoom size, press the down arrow key to increase the zoom size. When the unit is switched into the zoom mode, the tellers "ZM" appear at the top of the screen. The zoom window size displays in the top right corner of the screen.
To chanQe from feet to meters or vice-versa, press the menu key until SENSITIVITY the FEEt/METER menu appears. Press the down arrow key to switch to metric, the up arrow to switch to feet. Displays show in feet when the unit is first turned on. The menu will clear automatically after a few seconds or press the ON/CLEAR key to clear the screen.
narrow or no gray line. A hard bottom returns a strong signal that turn the alarm Sound off until the shallow alarm is triggered again. causes a wide gray line. If you have two targets of equal size, one with gray and the other without, the target with gray is the stronger echo.
ALARMS FISH ALARM The Fish Alarm sounds a tone when a fish symbol appears on the screen. To use the fish alarm, press the menu key until the "FISH ALARM" menu appears on the screen. Now press the up arrow key to turn the alarm on. Repeat the above steps to turn the fish alarm off.
DISPLAY MODE CHT 1 (Chart #1) This is the default mode used when the X-25 is first turned on. It has the following features: 1. Automatic On 2. Fish ID Feature On ____________ 3. Digital Depth Display On ___________________ CHT 2 (Chart #2) Same as Chart #1 plus digital surface water temperature display (Requires optional LST-T Speed/Temp Sensor.
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