Introduction

WARNING

See the Important Safety and Product Information guide in the product box for product warnings and other important information.

Registering Your Device

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•Keep the original sales receipt, or a photocopy, in a safe place.

Contacting Garmin Product Support

•Go to www.garmin.com/support and click Contact Support for in-country support information.

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•In Europe, call +44 (0) 870.8501241.

Manual Conventions

In this manual, the term “select” is used to describe these actions.

•Highlighting a menu item and pressing ENTER.

•Pressing a key, such as ENTER or MENU.

When you are instructed to select menu items, small arrows may appear in the text. They indicate that you should highlight a series of items using and , and select ENTER after each item. For example, for "select MENU > Pause/Rewind Sonar," select MENU, and then select or until Pause/Rewind Sonar is highlighted, and then select ENTER.

Getting Started

Keys

MENU Displays or hides a list of options.

ENTER Selects a menu item.

Scrolls through options or changes settings.

Turns the device on or off and adjusts the backlight.

Turning on the Device Automatically

You can set the device to turn on automatically when the power is applied. Otherwise, you must select .

Select MENU > Setup > System > Auto Power > On.

Selecting the Transducer Type

Before you can select the transducer type, you must know what kind of transducer you have.

You may need to set the transducer type to make the sonar function properly.

1From a sonar view, select MENU > Setup > Sonar Setup > Transducer Type.

2Select an option:

•If you have a 200/77 kHz, dual-beam transducer, select Dual Beam.

•If you have a 200/50 kHz dual-frequency transducer, select Dual Frequency.

•If you have a DownVü transducer, select DownVü.

•If you have another type of transducer, select it from the list.

NOTE: The echo 101 device supports 200 kHz only.

Adjusting the Contrast

NOTE: This feature is not available on all models.

1Select MENU > Setup > System > Contrast.

2 Select or .

TIP: Hold or to make large adjustments quickly.

3 Select ENTER.

Setting the Beeper

You can set when the device makes sounds.

1Select MENU > Setup > Alarms > Beeper.

2 Select an option:

•To have the device beep when you select an item and when an alarm is triggered, select On.

•To have the device beep only when alarms are triggered, select Alarms Only.

Menu Timeout

When a menu is open for 20 seconds and no selections are made, the menu closes and the previous screen is displayed.

Using Quick Adjust

After adjusting a setting and returning to a page, you can quickly return to the setting options.

Select or .

Sonar Display

Bottom depth

À

Water temperature (if a temperature-capable transducer is

Á

connected)

Screen depth as screen scrolls from right to left

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Sonar

DownVü Sonar View

NOTE: Not all models support DownVü sonar technology and transducers.

Introduction

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