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Quick Furuno Question

Post by TheGreatestGoat » Fri Nov 17, 2017 7:54 pm

Hey Guys,

Hoping someone with a Furuno might be able to help me out with something. I usually run the sounder in bottom zoom mode set to 5 metres with auto range.

Currently I think it just blows up the bottom 5 metres of the normal echo. Makes sense. Thing is I don't really need to zoom in on the seabed floor and the echos below as I can see bottom composition on the unzoomed screen.

Is there a way I can set it to say blow up 25% of the seabed and 75% of the water column above? Seemingly from images I have seen online you can.

I think it's the 'Bottom Zone' option in the menu. However I',m buggered if I can work out how to use it.

I pretty much want it to look like this all the time:

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Small amount of the bottom, but mainly above the sea floor. If you can throw in the christmas trees as well that would be great.

Any ideas would be very much appreciated.

Cheers,
goat

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Re: Quick Furuno Question

Post by re-tyred » Sat Nov 18, 2017 4:59 am

The bottom Lock/ Zoom range is set in the System menu/range menu, on most furunos. Some models have pre-set max.
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Re: Quick Furuno Question

Post by rb85 » Sat Nov 18, 2017 6:03 am

What model are you running?

FCV 588 you can remove the top section of the water column using the shift function on the menu.

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Re: Quick Furuno Question

Post by rb85 » Sun Nov 19, 2017 5:13 am

How did you go with it

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Re: Quick Furuno Question

Post by TheGreatestGoat » Sun Nov 19, 2017 12:12 pm

Cheers guys. Got it sorted with the bottom zone thing. Lets you change the proportions of what is 'zoomed'

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