User manual VEXILAR LC-8

[. . . ] LC-8 Owner's Manual CONTENTS General Description Specifications Unit Installation Power Connection Transducer Installation Operation Maintenance Trouble Shooting Chart Service and Support 2 3 4 4 5-6 7 - 13 14 15 16 Founded in 1965, Vexilar, Inc. has a long history of bringing revolutionary technology to the sport fishing industry. Just some of the Vexilar firsts include: the first liquid crystal display, the first fish alarm, the first three color display, and the first CRT and straight line paper graphs, for the sport fisherman. 1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION The LC-8 is a compact and lightweight liquid crystal depth sounder. It indicates depth, shows changes in bottom content, and conditions. [. . . ] Pressing the ZOOM button once puts the LC8 in ZOOM mode. Pressing it again will go back to the normal view. SWEEP SWEEP controls how fast the information moves across the display. The sweep speed should roughly match the boat speed to get the most accurate reading. FREEZE/RESUME The FREEZE button stops the display so that you can examine it before it moves off of the screen. Pressing it again will RESUME the display back to the original speed. MENU Pressing the MENU button opens the first menu page. Pressing it again will go to menu page two, and pressing it again will go to page three. Pressing the MENU button when you are on page three, the last menu page, will send you back to page one. On each page you will see a list of Submenus. Each item will be explained in the next section. To resume to normal operation press the RESUME button. ON/OFF Simply turns the LC-8 ON and OFF. When you turn the LC-8 off all of your menu and control settings will be saved in memory so that when you turn it on again the unit will operate the same way as it did when you last turned it off. MENU SETTINGS When you are in the MENU mode, the control panel buttons act as input keys. You no longer read the descriptions, in white. Instead, 8 you read the blue numbers. For instance the SHALLOW button is the 1 key and the DEC button is the 2 key in Menu Mode. MENU PAGE 1 1 - AUTO - R Press the 1 key to enter the Automatic Range Submenu. In this submenu, pressing the 2 key puts the LC-8 into Automatic Range Mode. In this mode the unit changes the range setting for you when the depth of the water changes. Pressing the 2 key puts the unit into the Manual Range Mode. The unit will not change range settings until you press the SHALLOW or DEEP button on the control panel. The factory default setting is ON. 2 - AUTO - G Press the 2 key to enter the Automatic Gain Submenu. In this submenu, pressing the 2 or 3 key puts the LC-8 into Automatic Gain Mode. The 2 selection tends to keep the gain on the higher side and the 3 selection will keep it on the lower side. The factory default setting is ON<High>. In shallow or weedy water it is recommended that the <LOW> setting be used. [. . . ] The only movement on the display is of your bait and fish. 12 Unlike open water use, the direction in which the transducer is pointed is very critical. You want your bait to be located in the dead center of the cone sound, directly under the transducer. This way you can see very small baits at low gain settings and also see fish come in from all sides. If you are not using the Ice-Ducer system, the transducer must be attached to an adjustable arm so that it can be manually pointed directly at the bait. [. . . ]