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Page 1: ...X 25 INSTALLATION AND OPERATION INSTRUCTIONS LITHOIN U S A 988 0105 33 LOWRANCE ELECTRONICS INC 12000 E SKELLY DR TULSA OK 74128 PDF compression OCR web optimization with CVISION s PdfCompressor ...

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Page 3: ...4 FISHALARM 14 DEPTH ALARMS 14 LAMP 15 FEET METER 15 DISPLAY CONTRAST 16 ASP AdvancedSignal Processing 16 TRANSDUCERS ANDCONE ANGLES 17 SIGNALINTERPRETATION 18 FISH ARCHES 19 WATERTEMPERATURE ANDTHERMOCLINES 20 SURVEYING ALAKE 22 BAITFISH 22 SONAR TROUBLESHOOTING 23 Copyright 1990 Lowrance Electronics Inc All rightsreserved All features and specifications subjectto change withoutnotice All screens...

Page 4: ...ble andtransducercable awayfrom the wiringthat is causing the interference VHFradioantennacablesradiate noise when transmitting sobe certain tokeepthesonar swires awayfromit Youmayneedto route thesonar unit spowercabledirectlytothe batterytoisolate itfromotherwiringontheboat If no noisedisplays on the sonar unit from electrical equipment then make certain everythingexcept the sonarunit is turned o...

Page 5: ...ion 2 Thesensitivity maynotbehighenough Inorderforthe unittodisplayafish arch ithas tobeableto receive thefish sechofromthetimeitenters thecone until Itleaves Ifthesensitivity isnothighenough theunitdisplays thefishonly whenit is inthecenterofthe cone 3 UsetheZoomfeature Itis much easiertodisplayfisharches whenzoomed inonasmallrange ofwaterthana largeone Forexample you will have much betterlucksee...

Page 6: ...6ifyou needservice SONARTROUBLESHOOTING Unitwon t turnon I Checkthepowercable sconnection atthe unit Alsocheckthe wiring 2 Makecertain thepowercableis wiredproperly The redwireconnects tothepositivebatteryterminal blackto negative orground 3 Checkthefuse 4 Measurethebatteryvoltageattheunit spowerconnector Itshouldbeatleast iivolts Ifitisn t thewiringtotheunitisdefective thebatteryterminals orwirin...

Page 7: ...wheresunlight promotes the growth ofthe plankton on whichtheyfeed Onemethod offishing is to usetheX 25tQfindthebaitfishfirst WiththeFish ID feature off aschool of baitfishwill look like a cloud on thedisplay Usually game fish will benearby oftendirectlybeneath theschool of baitfish 22 SPEED TEMPERATURE SENSORINSTALLATION RequiresOPTIONALLST TSpeed TempSensor Mountthespeed temp sensorontheboat stra...

Page 8: ...rrowkey Thechartwillfreezeandtheword STOP appearsatthe toprightportionofthescreen To start thechart press theuparrow keyagain 4 Thetemperature ofwaterinthelake isseldom constant fromtop to bottom Layers ofdifferenttemperatures form andthe junctionof a warmand cool layerofwateriscalledathermocline Thedepth and thickness of the thermoclinecanvarywiththe season ortimeof day Indeeplakes theremaybetwo ...

Page 9: ...IGHT Toturnthelights on presstheup arrowkey To switchfromfeetto meters pressthe downarrowkeywhentheproper menu appears To adjustthecontrast waitforthe DARK LIGHT menu toappear Nowpress the up arrow keyto darken thescreen thedownarrow to lighten it The menus disappearafterafew sec onds Ifyoudon twantto waft pressthe ON CLEAR key to clearthe menus fromthe screen When the X 25isfirstturnedon the disp...

Page 10: ...eunit is now inthemanual mode Waitafew secondsandthemenu willscroll offthe screen sleftside Pressing the ON CLEAR keyalso clearsit To turn theautomatic featureon again repeat the above steps exceptthis time press theuparrowkey RANGE Youcan tadjustthe range whentheX 25 isinthe automatic mode Itis adjustable whenthe unitis inthe manual mode however Todoso firstputtheunitinthe manual mode Nowpressthe...

Page 11: ...ewidestof all ON CLEAR keytoclearthe display Ifyouwaitafewseconds itwill automatically clear ZOOM Thezoomfeature enlargesallechoesonthescreen Iftheunitis in the automatic mode ittracks thebottomsignal alwayskeeping it near the bottomofthescreen This lets youseesmall detail at thesame timeenlarging all echoes that appearonthescreen Theunitdoesn t trackthebottom inthe manual mode andtheadjustments a...

Page 12: ...signal Toturnthezoomfeatureoff pressthe menu keyuntil the RANGE ZOOMmenu appears Nowpresstheuparrowkey Thisswitches theunitintotherangemode whichturnsthezoomfeatureoff TRANSDUCER CONE ANGLES The sound waves fromthe transducer spreadoutintothewater in a coneshaped beam Thislooks much likethebeamfromaflashlight The anglebetween theoutsideedges oftheconeis the cone angle Lowrance offers achoice oftra...

Page 13: ...ytoclearthe screen The sensitivity menu letsyoucontrolthe unit sabilitytopickupech oes A lowsensitivity levelexcludes muchofthebottominformation fish signals and otherdetail Nigh sensitivity settingslets yousee features but it canalsoclutterthescreenwithnoiseandother un wantedsignals Typically thebestsensitivity levelshowsa good solidbottomsignal withgrayline The X 25adjusts thesensitivity level t...

Page 14: ...es tiny small medium and large Theseshowthe relativesizebetween targets In otherwords itdisplays asmall fish symbolwhen itthinksatargetisasmallfish a mediumfishsymbolon alargertarget etc The micro computer is sophisticated butitcanbefooled Itcan t distinguish between fish and othersuspended objects suchasturtles submerged floats air bubbles etc Individual tree limbs extending outwardsfroma groupof...

Page 15: ...ee Fish ID symbols on the screen when infact thereare nofish Practice withthe unitwhenthe Fish IDfeatureis on and offto becomemore familiarwith Fish ID When the X 25is firstturnedon the Fish IDfeatureis automatically turnedon also Toturnthis featureoff pressthemenu key until the FishID feature smenu appears as shown below Nowpressthedownarrow key Thisturnsthefeatureoff Toturn it backon repeat thea...

Page 16: ...creen inverylargedigits The digital temperature speed and log shows beneath the depth Requires optional LST TSpeed Temp Sensor Thelog starts countingwhentheX 25isfirst turned on Thelog is resettozerowhen the X 25isturnedoff TheX 25 hassixdifferentscreen modes Tochangemodes press theMENU key until the DISPMODE DisplayMode menu appears Thenpressthe up ordownarrowkeysuntilthe desired mode number appe...

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