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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 INSTALLATION MOUNTING NOTICE! .2 POWER CONNECTIONS .2 TRANSDUCER 4 This uses threaded KEYBOARD BASICS product nuts inside the case to hold the 11 knobs gimbal DISPLAY onto the unit. 12 These nuts will rattle when shake the unit, It's you normal for MENUS thisto and happen shouldn't be a cause HELP forconcern. This doesn't affectthe 13 OPERATION of the 13 watertight unit. integrity AUTOMATIC 13 SENSITIVITY 14 The unit RANGE
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INTRODUCTION NOTES: that is wide screen sonar with The X-55A is a performance high quality, features and to none in its class. menu operation, second Using "soft-key" has ever sonars that Lowrance also one of the easiest-to-use the X-55A is and with resolution screen showsthe undetwaterworld built. Thewide high The for and are also detail. The lighted night operation. display keyboard and surface water has boat X-55A also temperature, digital depth, speed, usethe In
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MOUNTING Install the X-55A in convenient any there is clearance location, provided How to Obtain Service behind the unit when it is tilted for the best Holes in the viewing angle. bracket base allow wood Customers screw or You (Canadian through-bolt need Only) mounting. may We back to a of investment in on the back of thin your with service and place piece plywood to secure quality products quick, expert fiberglass panels genuine Lowrance If need service or replacement p
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NOTICE! Please check the items in the box this list. You have all of the against !hould items shown on this If are of the page. call our you missing any items, please toll-free number: special 1.800-324-1353 A RECORDED MESSAGE will the information. Please have request following it before call. ready you 1. Your and name, address, number. shipping telephone 2. The that's part missing. 3. The serial model, and DATE AND PLACE OF number, PURCHASE OF YOUR UNIT. 4. The
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TRANSDUCER transom mount transducer. It Some X-55A's are sold with a HS-WSBK can be installed on outboard or stern-drive (inboarcf\outboard) pow- any inside the boat to "shoot- It can also be installed ered boat. permanently the hull on some boats. fiberglass through1' Authorized Return Sent UPS if the transducer bracket The damage "kick-up" mounting helps prevent If the transducer does "kick- an while the boat is strikes moving. object in without tools. bracket can be ba
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Lowrance's UPS Return Shoot-thru-bull v,s, Transom Service Mounting shoot-thru-hull installations excellent Typically, give high speed opera- Lowrance Electronics and United Parcel Service are to offer (UPS) proud tion and to excellent There is no of good depth capability. possibility all of unitssentto ourcustomersfreeshippingforall usforrepairorservice. from It can't be knocked off when or damage floating objects. docking If have to send this unit to the and are in the contin
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LOWRANCE ELECTRONICS between the bracket's 2. the transducer's Slip mounting pad mounting WARRANTY FULL ONE-YEAR "ears". Sandwich two internal lock washers between the transducer and of this or "us" refers to LOWRANCE the manufacturer ELECTRONICS. INC., one side of the bracket as shown below. Place one washer on 'We", "our", mounting this as a consumer "You" or refers to the first who purchases product product. "your" person the other side of the transducer. item for or househol
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ni 0$11: ° CAUTIONI :1: FEET I I .. — — CLAMP ThE TRANSDUCER CABLE TO 12 — TRANSOM NEAR THE TRANSDUCER. This fl-I TIlE TRANSDUCER WILL HELP PREVENT — — 45.2 24 BOAT IF IT IS FRDM ENTERING ThE KNOCKED OFF AT HIGH SPEED. — — 36 65.4 100 -I-&o e GROUP "I" GROUP Uji ICR LOCATION — 0$ i : 'JDI M I FEET I I MPH I ;;i° - II 5.4 GOOD LOCATION 63.5°F I ,—. 5O.2 • I '4$ :f'MuJi4 tewi Ulu rt.i1itiia OFT strakes or ribs on the 3. Don't mount the transducer behind dir
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5. the transducer and bracket so that the front of the transducer Adjust ,0 is lower than the back. See the section on fish arches in this slightly - manual for transducer all screws. proper angles. Tighten (CAUTION: sr Don't the bolt that holds the transducer to the bracket. overtighten 0.01 the bolt result in a distorted bracket which will allow Overtightening may t*a the transducer to at the transducer bracket "kick-up" high speed.) Snap MPH 0.0 the outer bracket one
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SHOOT-THRU-HULL INSTALLATION If find noise interference from an electrical instrument, motor, you trolling be in an area The transducer installation inside a hull must or isolatethe You can reroutethe sonar fiberglass pump, radio, tryto problem. usually that does not have air bubbles in the resin or unit's cable and transducer cable from the that is separated fiberglass power away wiring The sonar must solid A success- the interference. VHF radio antenna cables radiate noise when
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TRANSDUCER LOCATION TRANSDUCER LOCATION 2. Electrical noise from the boat's motor can interfere with the sonar. This (HIGH SPEED) (TROLLING SPEED) causes the sonar to increase its Discrimination or noise automatically feature. This can cause the unit to eliminate weaker such rejection signals as fish or even structure from the or display. Try using resistorspark plugs the sonar unit's and transducer cables from other routing power away electrical on the boat. wiring No fish
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terminals or on the terminals are or the needs transducer into the and it to force air bubbles corroded, wiring epoxy, twisting battery turning any out from under the transducer face. The the face of transducer should charging. be with the with a minimum amount of between the parallel hull, epoxy Unit locks or hull and transducer. After the cable to the route the X-55A. freezes, up, operates erratically: epoxy dries, 1. Electrical noise from the boat's or an motor, trolling motor,
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- of water is to DISPLAY General The most efficient to become with a way acquainted body The are turned on for ten seconds when the X-55A is it with X-55A. Start with a of the if and lake, possible, lights approximately survey your map on shore. firstturned on. Menus sametime. To the indicate the in relation to landmarks on, appearatthe keep lights press promising spots the to the label. It controls the used on the adjacent Light backlighting key and and If don't wantthe waitten s
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MENUS The X-55A uses menus ex- tensivelyto guide you through the functions and features of the unit. The menu ac- key cesses of these fea- many to custom- J4flPS/A? tures, allowing you 83° ize the unit to your particular needs and water conditions. have to Although you may 78° leave one menu and enter another to reach the desired all have to do is function, you 77° the menu to select the next menu. If ever lost in a press key you get menu, the CLEAR simply press ke
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the SENSITIVITY rocks or on a smooth bottom send back above stumps signals Big of the unit to The on the X-55A controls the level The of the on ability pick up bottom height. sensitivity key signal. height signal depends thetarget's level excludes much of the bottom echoes. A low it should be as a short information, overa lineextending sensitivity pass post, clearlyvisible Asyou and other information. levels enables fish above the bottom signals, target High sensitivity signal.
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- TRAVEL RANGE Automatic BOATS DIRECTION OF the first the X-55A the When turned on for time, automatically places of the screen. This is called Auto bottom in the lower half Ranging signal automatic function. The cannot be and is of the range changed part is in automatic. while the unit manually - RANGE Manual when it's in the manual mode. The X-55A control overthe range gives you is in the manual mode. To the first make certain the X-55A range, change menu in the the
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the numbered enter a numberforthe Iimitthat is at Using least keys, upper _________ five feet less than the lower limit. In this we entered case, a 20 40, giving footzoom. When enteredthe desired arrow you've upper limit, pressthe up at the bottom of the screen. key ______________________ ________ 1 The unit returns to the sonar 0 qg 3 screen with the new limit. upper •12 ENUMBERKEYSTO lowerlimitthesame Changethe lower way. 29 Usingtheupperand USE RIGHT ARROW l
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the AUTO to at twice the size as switch it. Press the CLEAR erase the AUTO! shown the key again _________________ keyto ________________ MAN menu. ones on the The echoes right. scroll across the screen that All of same echoes the X-55A's features the same with the Broadview on. are the exact on adjust all the others thefront both sides of the screen. Sensitivity, Range, Grayline®and adjust eitherusing the buttons menu selections. The is when two on panel orthrough onlydifference
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SONAR ALARMS then itshowsechoesfrom both. The X-55A has three of sonar alarms. The first is the Fish When either the left or different types right Alarm. It sounds when the Fish l.D. feature determines an echo or transducerelements are in group use, of echoes is afish. Anotheralarm isthe ZoneAlarm which consists of a bar. the scrolls the echoes display echo that inside this bar the alarm. The last alarm is from the of the to the Any appears triggers top display called the Alarm. bottom
