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Elite-5m HD
Installation & Operation
Operation manual
manual
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Copyright © 2013 Navico All rights reserved. Lowrance® and Navico® are registered trademarks of Navico. Fishing Hot Spots® is a registered trademark of Fishing Hot Spots Inc. Navionics® is a registered trademark of Navionics, Inc. Navico may find it necessary to change or end our policies, regulations and special offers at any time. We reserve the right to do so without notice. All features and specifications subject to change without notice. Compliance Statements Lowrance Elite 5m HD • mee
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Warning The user is cautioned that any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio freq
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Table of contents Goto cursor ..............................................9 Introduction ...................................... 4 Advanced Mode ......................................9 Unit Controls ............................................4 Restore defaults ......................................9 Inserting microSD cards ..........................5 Pages .............................................. 10 Basic Operation ............................... 6 Steer Page.............................
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Trails Screen .........................................19 Specifications ................................ 30 Orientation .............................................21 Index ............................................... 31 Chart Settings ........................................22 Overlay Data..........................................22 Settings..................................................22 Navigation Settings ...................................24 Settings ...............................
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introduction Getting Started unit Controls To turn on/off the unit, press and LiGht/Power : controls backlight level Turn unit on/ hold the LiGht/Power key for and turns unit on/off off three seconds. KeYPAD : controls cursor & selects items Press the zoom in and zoom out on menus keys at the same time to set a Man PAGeS: allows you to select a page to Man Overboard waypoint. Your system view Overboard will automatically create an active waypoint route back to the MOB waypoint. You men
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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. Introduction | Elite-5m HD Introduction | Elite-5m HD 4 5
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Page menus Basic Operation The Steer and Chart pages have menus that can only be accessed when those pages are displayed. Setup wizard 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. Chart menu Chart page Pages This unit has two pages: Steer and Chart. Press the pages key to switch pages. Steer menu Steer page Basic Operation | Elite-5m HD Basic Operation |
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Accessing the Settings menu 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). Accessing menu items The keypad and enter key are used to select On/Off features menu items and open submenus. Use the keypad Select the on/off item and to highlight the desired item and press enter. press enter to turn
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Dropdown menus To input text: Select the dropdown menu 1. Use the keypad to select the desired and press the keypad up/ character and press enter. down to select the desired 2. Repeat Step 1 for each character. item. Press enter. 3. When entry is completed, highlight OK and press enter. nOte: Press the Menu key to exit menus. Switches letters to uppercase/ lowercase Dialogs Dialogs are used for user input Switches keyboard or for presenting information to between ALPHA and the user. De
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goto cursor Standby mode Used to navigate to the cursor. Lowers power consumption by turning off the display. 1. Move the cursor to a desired location and press Menu. 1. Press the PWr/Light key to access the Back- 2. Select Goto cursor and press enter. light dialog. 2. Select Standby and press enter. Advanced Mode 3. Press any key to resume normal Enables advanced features and settings. operation. The following features are enabled when Advanced mode is turned on: nOte: Leavi
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Pages Course over ground Waypoint Compass Direction to destination Current location Cursor Current location Current location and distance/ Zoom Navigation bearing to cursor Range information Chart Page Steer Page Consists of map that moves in real-time as you The Steer page has a compass that shows your move. By default, the map is shown from a birds- current track, the direction to your destination, and eye view with North at the top of the screen. a digital data navigation panel. Pages
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Overlay Data Used to select data shown on the Chart page. To add overlay data: 1. From the Chart page, press Menu. 2. Select Overlay data and press enter. Overlay data 3. Select Configure and press enter. Show 4. Press Menu and select Add. Press enter. Enables/disables the display of overlay data, allowing you to remove overlay data from the 5. Select a data category and press screen without deleting the current overlay data enter. configuration. 6. Select the desired data and p
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Customizing Overlay Data You can select a data source, add/remove data and adjust the size and position of overlay data on the screen. Select the desired overlay data from the “Configure Item Locations and Sizes dialog” and press Menu. The configuration menu will appear. Pages | Elite-5m HD Pages | Elite-5m HD 12 PB
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Chart Operation Chart menu Chart Menu New Waypoint Press Menu from the Chart page to open the Chart menu. Press enter to launch the New waypoint Creates a waypoint at your current location or at the dialog. cursor position. When the cursor is on the screen, waypoints will be saved at the cursor position. If the cursor is not active, waypoints will be saved at your current position. Chart Operation | Elite-5m HD Chart Operation | Elite-5m HD PB 13
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Find 3. T o measure from the cursor position to a new location, press enter and move Used to search for chart the cursor to a new location. categories from the cursor position or from your current 4. T o stop measuring, press Menu and position. select Stop measuring. Measure Waypoints, routes, t rails The cursor can be used to measure the distance Used to create, edit, navigate and delete waypoints, between two items on the chart. routes and trails. Press the keypad left/right to togg
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New Creates a new waypoint at the cursor or vessel position. You can also select waypoint name, icon and latitude/longitude from the new waypoint dialog. Show Displays the selected waypoint Waypoints on the map. menu Goto Allows you to navigate to a waypoint. Edit Delete and Delete All Allows you to edit the name, icon and latitude/longitude Delete is used to delete a of a selected waypoint. selected waypoint. Delete All deletes all waypoints. Chart Operation | Elite-5m HD Chart Ope
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Inserts waypoint between Sort existing route waypoints Controls how the waypoints list will be sorted — by name or by nearest. Adds waypoint to end of the route routes Screen Used to create, edit, navigate and delete routes. Use the keypad to highlight the Routes tab to ac- cess the Routes screen. Route waypoint Starts navigation menu to the selected route waypoint To create a route from waypoint list: Routes screen Routes menu 1. Press Menu from the Routes screen. Creating a route 2.
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Leg Name field Creating a route using points from chart: 1. Repeat Steps 1-4 from the instructions for Creating a route from waypoint list. 2. Select Points using chart and press enter. The chart page will appear. 3. Move the cursor to the desired location. Press enter to set a point. 4. Repeat Step 3 to add more points. 5. Highlight Waypoint from list and press 5. Press Menu and select Stop adding. enter. Press enter. 6. Select the desired waypoint and press 6. Select Save and
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To cancel navigation: 3. Select Forward or Reverse and press enter. 1. Press Menu from the chart screen. 4. Press Menu and select Return to Chart. 2. Select Navigation and press enter. Press enter. 3. Highlight Cancel and press enter. 4. Select Yes and press enter. Edit and New Route dialogs Used to edit/create routes, route names and to turn on/off the route display. Displays/hides route on the map To edit/create a route, use the keypad to select the Route Leg Name field and
