Lowrance Mark-4 Owner's Manual

Elite 5, Elite 4 & Mark 4

Operation manual

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Table of Contents

Introduction......................................	3
Unit Controls............................................	3
Inserting microSD cards...........................	4
Setup wizard............................................	5
Basic Operation................................	5
Selecting Pages.......................................	5
Page menus.............................................	6
Working with menus.................................	7
Dialogs.....................................................	8
Entering text.............................................	8
Fishing Modes..........................................	8
Cursor......................................................	9
Goto cursor..............................................	9

Advanced Mode ....................................	10
Standby mode........................................	10
Restore defaults.....................................	10
Adjusting the display..............................	10
Pages................................................	11
Steer Page.............................................	11
Sonar Page............................................	11
Chart/Sonar page ..................................	12
Chart Page.............................................	12
Overlay Data..........................................	13
Chart/Sonar split....................................	13
Using your Sonar...........................	15
Trackback...............................................	15

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Table of Contents
Sonar Menu............................................	15
Sensitivity...............................................	16
Colorline/Grayscale................................	17
Depth Range..........................................	17
Frequency .............................................	18
Ping Speed (Advanced Mode only)........	18
Fish ID....................................................	20
Using your Chart............................	21
Chart Menu............................................	21
Waypoints, Routes, Trails......................	22
Routes Screen.......................................	23
Trails Screen..........................................	27
Orientation..............................................	29
Settings...........................................	30

System...................................................	30
Saving Screenshots...............................	32
Navigation..............................................	33
Chart......................................................	34
Sonar .....................................................	36
Installation..............................................	37
Alarms ...................................................	38
Index................................................	40
Specifications.................................	42

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Unit Controls

LIGHT/POWER: controls backlight level and turns unit on/off

KEYPAD: controls cursor & selects items on menus

PAGES: allows you to select a page to view

MENU: opens settings, context and page menus

ENTER: finalizes menu selections; save waypoint at cursor position

MOB: press and hold both Zoom keys to create a Man Overboard waypoint

ZOOM Keys: used to zoom in/zoom out

microSD slot: insert a blank microSD card to save screen captures; or insert a microSD mapping card to use mapping data (See illustration on page 2)

Introduction

		Getting Started
	Turn unit	To turn on/off the unit, press and
		hold the Light/Power key for
	on/off
		three seconds.
		Press the zoom in and zoom
	Man	out keys at the same time to set
		a Man Overboard waypoint. Your
	Overboard	system will automatically create
	waypoint	an active route back to the MOB
		waypoint. You must cancel navi-
		gation to terminate the function.
	Adjusting	This unit has 10 backlight levels.
	the	Press the Light/Power key to
	backlight	switch backlight levels.
	Muting	Select Mute Audio from the
	Audio	System menu and press Enter.
	Selecting a	Select GPS Source from the
		System menu and press Enter.
	GPS	Select internal or external and
	Source
		press Enter. (Elite-5 only)

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Introduction

Inserting microSD cards

Carefully slide the microSD card into the slot until it clicks into place. To remove, carefully push in the card until it clicks out of place.

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Basic Operation

Setup wizard

Pages

The Setup wizard will appear when the unit is turned on for the first time. To choose your own settings, do not run the setup wizard.

To restart the Setup wizard, restore defaults.

NOTICE

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

This unit has four pages: Sonar, Chart, Sonar/Chart and Steer.

Pages menu

Selecting Pages

To select a page, press the keypad in the direction of the desired page.

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Basic Operation

Sonar page

Page menus

The Steer, Sonar, Chart/Sonar and Chart pages have menus that can only be accessed when those pages are displayed.

Chart/Sonar page

Steer menu

Steer page

Chart page

Sonar menu

Chart or sonar menu will appear depending on which panel is active. Press the Pages key twice to switch

active panels.

Chart menu

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Basic Operation

Accessing the Settings menu

Accessing menu items

The keypad and enter key are used to select menu items and open submenus. Use the keypad to highlight the desired item and press Enter.

Working with menus

There are several menu types used to make adjustments to options and settings, including scrollbars, on/off features and dropdown menus.

Scrollbars

Select the scrollbar and press the keypad left (decrease) or right (increase).

On/Off features

Select an on/off menu item and press Enter to turn it on/off.

Dropdown menus

After accessing the dropdown menu, press the keypad up/down to select the desired item and press Enter.

NOTE: Press the Menu key to Exit menus.

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Basic Operation

Dialogs

Dialogs are used for user input or for presenting information to the user.

Depending on the type of information or entry, different meth-

ods are used to confirm, cancel or close the dialog.

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.

Entering text

Some functions, like naming a waypoint, route or trail, will require you to input text.

Switches letters to uppercase/ lowercase

Switches keyboard between Alpha and QWERTY layout

Fishing Modes

Fishing modes enhance the performance of your unit by providing preset packages of sonar settings geared to specific fishing conditions.

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	Fishing Mode Options
General Use	Bottom brown/white background; 50% ping
	speed
Shallow	Bottom brown/white background; best for
Water	depths less than 100 feet
Fresh Water	Bottom brown/white background; 50% ping
	speed
Deep Water	Deep Blue; 50% ping speed; 50kHz is
	primary transducer frequency
Slow	Bottom brown/white background; 50% ping
Trolling	speed
Fast	Bottom	brown/white	background;	slightly
Trolling	lower chart speed
Clear Water	Bottom brown/white background; 50% ping
	speed
Brackish	Bottom	brown/blue	background;	higher
Water	ASP; slightly lower chart speed

NOTE: Use Fresh Water mode when fishing in less than 100 feet of water; otherwise your unit may not track bottom properly.

Basic Operation

Cursor

The keypad moves the cursor around the display, allowing you to scroll the map, select map items and review sonar history.

Press Menu and select Return to vessel or Exit cursor mode to clear the cursor.

Goto cursor

Allows you to navigate to the cursor.

1.Move the cursor to a desired location and press Menu.

2.Select Goto cursor and press Enter.

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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)

•Alarms (Enables arrival, off course and anchor alarm options)

•NMEA 0183 Output

•Units (Enables distance, speed, depth, temperature, and bearings options)

Standby mode

Lowers power consumption by turning off sonar and the display.

Press the PWR/Light key to access the Backlight dialog. Select Standby and press Enter.

Press any key to resume normal operation.

NOTE: Leaving your unit in Standby mode when your boat is not is use will run down your battery.

Restore defaults

Resets unit options and settings to defaults.

Adjusting the display

You can make adjustments to the display using Sensitivity, Colorline and Palettes. Those features are covered in the Sonar section.

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Pages

Direction to	Current Track	Compass	Overlay Data	Surface Clutter	Colorline
waypoint				Fish arches

		Navigation	Location and depth		Range Scale	Cursor
	Your location					Depth
		information		Frequency	Amplitude Scope
			Sonar Page
	Steer Page
			Displays the water column moving from right to
	The Steer page has a compass that shows your
			left on your unit’s screen. On the right side of the
	current track, the direction to your destination, and		screen, the Amplitude Scope bar previews echoes
	a digital data navigation panel.		about to appear on the display.

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Pages

Chart/Sonar Page

Chart/Sonar page

Consists of a chart/sonar splitscreen. Press the Pages key twice to switch active panels. The active panel will have an orange border.

Depth contours	Current location

Current location;	Waypoint Zoom
distance to cursor	Range

Chart Page

Consists of map that moves in real-time as you move. By default, the map is shown from a birdseye view with North at the top of the screen.

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Chart/Sonar split

Allows you to change the way the panels are displayed when viewing the Chart/Sonar page.

Press the Pages key twice to switch active panels.

Pages

Overlay Data

Displays selected overlay data on the sonar page.

Overlay data

Show

Enables/disables the display of overlay data, allowing you to remove overlay data from the screen without deleting the selected overlay data configuration.

Configure

Used to select overlay data to be displayed on the screen.

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