Lowrance Mark-4 Owner's Manual

Installation & Operation

Elite 5, Elite 4 & Mark 4

manual

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

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

Specications ................................ 42

Introduction

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: nalizes 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)

Turn unit

on/off

Man

Overboard

waypoint

Adjusting

the

backlight

Muting

Audio

Selecting a

GPS

Source

Getting Started

To turn on/off the unit, press and hold the LIGHT/POWER key for three seconds.

Press the ZOOM IN and ZOOM OUT keys at the same time to set

a Man Overboard waypoint. Your system will automatically create an active route back to the MOB waypoint. You must cancel navigation to terminate the function.

This unit has 10 backlight levels. Press the LIGHT/POWER key to switch backlight levels.

Select Mute Audio from the System menu and press ENTER.

Select GPS Source from the System menu and press ENTER. Select internal or external and press ENTER. (Elite-5 only)

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.

Basic Operation

Setup wizard

The Setup wizard will appear when the unit is turned on for the rst 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 dier from what you see on your screen. Your unit, however, will function in a similar manner.

Pages

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.

Basic Operation

Page menus

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

Steer menu

Steer page

Sonar page

Chart/Sonar 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

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/o features and dropdown menus.

Scrollbars

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

On/Off features

Select an on/o menu item and press ENTER to turn it on/o.

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.

Basic Operation

Dialogs

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

Depending on the type of information or entry, dierent methods are used to conrm, cancel or close the dialog.

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

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.

Fishing Modes

Fishing modes enhance the performance of your unit by providing preset packages of sonar settings geared to specic shing conditions.

Basic Operation

General Use

Shallow Water

Fresh Water

Deep Water

Slow Trolling

Fast Trolling

Clear Water

Brackish Water

NOTE: Use Fresh Water mode when

shing in less than 100 feet of water; otherwise your unit may not track bottom

Fishing Mode Options

Bottom brown/white background; 50% ping

speed

Bottom brown/white background; best for

depths less than 100 feet

Bottom brown/white background; 50% ping

speed

Deep Blue; 50% ping speed; 50kHz is

primary transducer frequency

Bottom brown/white background; 50% ping

speed

Bottom brown/white background; slightly

lower chart speed

Bottom brown/white background; 50% ping

speed

Bottom brown/blue background; higher ASP; slightly lower chart speed

properly.

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 cur- sor 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.

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 o 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.

Pages

CompassDirection to

Navigation information

waypoint

Your location

Current Track

Steer Page

The Steer page has a compass that shows your current track, the direction to your destination, and a digital data navigation panel.

Overlay Data

Location and depth

Surface Clutter

Fish arches

Frequency

Colorline

Range Scale

Amplitude Scope

Cursor Depth

Sonar Page

Displays the water column moving from right to left on your unit’s screen. On the right side of the screen, the Amplitude Scope bar previews echoes about to appear on the display.

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; distance to cursor

Current location

Waypoint

Zoom 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.

Pages

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.

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 conguration.

Congure

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

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