Elite 5 DSIOperation manual

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Introduction

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NOTICEThis manual covers several units. Some features and screenshots may differ from your units capabilities or from what you see on your screen. Your unit, however, will function in a similar manner.

Getting Started

Turn unit on/off

Press and hold the LIGhT/POwEr key for three seconds.

Adjusting the backlight

Press the LIGhT/POwEr key, select Brightness and press the keypad left/right.

Muting AudioSelect Mute Audio from the System menu and press ENTEr.

ZOOM Keys: used to zoom in/zoom out (On GPS-capable units, press keys simultaneously to create Man Overboard waypoint)

PAGES: used to select pages

KEYPAD: controls cursor & selects items on menus

MENU: Opens settings, context and page menus

ENTEr: confirms menu selections

LIGhT/POwEr: controls backlight level and turns unit on/off

General Operation

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Exiting menus

Press Menu to see if the screen or menu has an exit option). If it does (Close, Return to screen, Exit dialog, etc), highlight the exit option and press ENTEr to exit.

If there is no exit option press the MENU key repeatedly to close all menus.

Sonar settings

Selecting Menu itemsSettings menu

Accessing Settings menu

Fishfinder, GPS and combination units

Accessing Pages

Page menuPage

Accessing page menus

Fishfinder or GPS only units

General Operation

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Standby modeLowers power consumption by putting the unit into a sleep mode. Press any key to resume normal operation.

Restoring DefaultsResets unit options and settings to defaults.

Overlay DataAllows you to display data on the screen. Overlay data can be accessed on the Chart, Sonar and DSI menus.

Advanced ModeEnables advanced fea-tures/settings. On some units, advanced mode is enabled by answering Yes to the advanced user question in the Setup Wiz-ard. To repeat the Setup Wizard, restore defaults.

WARNING: Leaving the unit in Standby with the boat turned

off will drain the battery.

4Sonar Operation

Trackback You can review your sonar history by pressing the keypad to the left until the screen starts to move in reverse and the sonar history bar appears at the bottom of the screen.

Move the sonar history bar all the way to the right to resume normal sonar scrolling, or press MENU and select Exit cursor mode.

Adjusting the displaySensitivity (Traditional Sonar)

Controls the level of detail on the screen. Too much detail will clutter the screen. Conversely, desired echoes may not be displayed if Sensitivity is set too low.

Sonar history bar

Colorline (Advanced mode - traditional)

Separates strong sonar echoes from weak sonar echoes, making it easier to distinguish fish or structure from the bottom.

On monochrome units, wide bands of gray indicate a hard sonar return, while softer returns are shown as dark, narrow lines.

Contrast (DSI sonar)

Adjusts the brightness ratio between light and dark areas on the screen, making it easier to dis-tinguish objects from the background.

DSI only

5Sonar Operation

Color

Changes the look of the display using palettes with varying degrees of color and brightness.

Features

Fishing Mode (Traditional)

Fishing modes are preset packages of sonar set-tings geared to specific fishing conditions.

Noise rejection: counteracts sonar signal interference by reducing onscreen clutter.

Surface Clarity: reduces clutter near the waters surface (Advanced mode only).

Color sonar Color DSI

Monochrome DSI

Range: selects the section of the water column shown on the display

Frequency: selects transducer frequency

Stop sonar: pauses the sonar screen

6Sonar Operation

Sonar SettingsAlarms

The Shallow alarm sounds a tone when your vessel enters water shallower than the selected alarm threshold.

The Fish Alarm sounds a tone when a fish symbol appears on the display (Non-DSI).

Fishing Mode Depth SettingsGeneral Use 1,000 50% Ping speed

Shallow water 60 75% Ping speedFresh water 400 50% Ping speedDeep water 1,000 50% Ping speed

Slow Trolling 400 50% Ping speed

Fast Trolling 400 Lower chart speedClear water 400 50% Ping speed

Ice Fishing 400Reduces

interference from other sonar units

Sonar Options (Traditional)

Alarms menu

Depth threshold

NOTE: Press ENTEr to silence alarms.

7Chart Operation

Setting up your GPSSelecting a GPS Source

Used to select the GPS antenna used by the unit. You can use the units internal antenna or an external antenna.

Selecting Chart Data

Selects map data that will be used on the Chart display (Lowrance or Navionics).

GPS featuresCursor

The keypad moves the cursor around the display, allowing you to scroll the map and select map

items. Press the keypad to make the cursor visible on the map. Press MENU and select Return to vessel to clear the cursor.

Cursor coordinates

Object selected with cursor

Goto cursor

Allows you to move the cursor to a desired loca-tion and then navigate to the cursor.

8Chart Operation

Cancel Navigation

Orientation

Allows you to select North Up or Course Over Ground (COG) as the map orientation.

North up keeps north at the top of the display. Course over ground, rotates the map so your di-rection of travel is at the top of the screen.

Accessing waypoints, routes and trails

WaypointsCreating a waypoint

Waypoints can be created from the waypoints menu or from the map. The example below shows how to create a waypoint at your current position.

With the cursor on the screen, you can create a waypoint at the cursor position in the same manner.

North

North indicator

9Chart Operation

Editing a waypoint

Edit waypoint menuWaypoint name, icon and latitude/longitude can be changed on the Edit waypoint menu.

The Edit waypoint menu can be accessed by selecting a waypoint and pressing ENTEr.

Navigating to a waypointYou can navigate to a waypoint from the waypoints menu (shown below) or from the chart screen. To navigate to a waypoint from the chart, center the cursor on the waypoint, press ENTEr, and then use the Goto cursor command.

Using the waypoints menu to navigate to a way-point allows you to use navigation features like arrival and off course alarms.

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Chart Operation

3. Adding route points

You must select the Leg name field to access the menu used to add points to a route .

Leg name field

2. Accessing the Leg name field

You can add points to a route from the waypoints list or from the map.

1. New or Edit route setup

Edit route New route

RoutesCreating/editing a routeWaypoints can be added to a route from the waypoints menu or by selecting them with the cursor on the chart. When editing a route, points can be added at the beginning, end, or between existing route points. Route creation/editing is covered in four parts:

1. New or edit route setup

2. Accessing the Leg name field

3. Adding routes points

4. Finalizing routes.

New

Edit

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Chart Operation

4. Finalizing routesThe process for saving a new route and changes made to an existing route differ slightly. Both methods are shown in the following illustrations.

Saving a new route

When adding points from the map, use the cursor to select a point and press ENTEr. Repeat that step to add more points.

When adding waypoints from the waypoints list, press MENU and select insert each time you want to add another waypoint to the route.

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Chart Operation

Navigating a routeSaving an edited route

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Chart Operation

TrailsCreating a trail

When the unit is turned on, it will start recording trail points after a set amount of time, or after a set distance is traveled; depending on the trail update setting.

Trail points are added to the end of the previous trail unless a new trail is created.

2. Saving a new trail

1. Selecting New on trail menu

Editing trails/Accessing Edit trail menu

Edit trail menu

To use this units navigation features to navigate a trail, you must save it as a route

Trail name and color can be changed on the Edit trail menu. You can also add/remove the trail dis-play from the chart (Displayed) and turn on/off trail recording for the selected trail.

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Chart Operation

Saving/Loading files

Press MENU from the Waypoints, Routes or Trails screens to transfer data to/from a microSD card.

Chart Settings

NOTE: Press ENTEr to silence alarms.

Navigating a trail

AlarmsYou can navigate a trail manually, by steering your onscreen position (arrow) along an exist-ing trail on the chart display, or navigate it like a route. Navigating a trail like a route allows you to use features like off course and arrival alarms.

You must save a trail as a route before you can navigate it as a route, as shown below.

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Settings

UnitsSelects unit of measure

Simulator

Simulates unit activity

Language

Selects the language used on menus and text boxes

About

Displays software information

Time (GPS only)

Sets the clock, time and date formats

Browse

Browse files on a microSD card (only on units with microSD card slot)

Tmp/Spd port

Allows you to use the Tmp/Spd port on the back of the unit as an NMEA 0183 output

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