Thread: Discussion on Lowrance Elite 5 DSI/Chartplotter ....

I ordered some protectors yesterday. Guess I'll be the guinea pig.

Ok I bought the elite 5x dsi and plan on mounting this weekend. I've read all 45 pages and really liked the input on the sonar coverage. After looking at my unit it states the beam is30 degrees at 800 kHz and 55 degrees @ 455 kHz with -3dB. Does anyone know where I can find a chart like the one posted earlier in the thread that shows the area coverage at - 10 dB?

Originally Posted by Wooduckn

Ok I bought the elite 5x dsi and plan on mounting this weekend. I've read all 45 pages and really liked the input on the sonar coverage. After looking at my unit it states the beam is30 degrees at 800 kHz and 55 degrees @ 455 kHz with -3dB. Does anyone know where I can find a chart like the one posted earlier in the thread that shows the area coverage at - 10 dB?

Here is one that I made. . I figured multiplying the 455 kHz depth by 1.04 would give me the bottom coverage. For the 800 kHz I multiplied the depth by 0.53. (Example: 10' of water would convert to 10.4 on the 455 and 5.3 on the 800)

Tiger, thanks for the information. Do u mind me asking where U came up with the multiplier?

Originally Posted by Quackrstackr

I ordered some protectors yesterday. Guess I'll be the guinea pig.

Did you have a chance to try out the "screen protectors" yet? I thought that I might go that same route if it helps out any...

Originally Posted by FlyBye

Did you have a chance to try out the "screen protectors" yet? I thought that I might go that same route if it helps out any...

I have. The brand that I purchased increase the glare just a tad if you're not wearing polarized glasses because of the gloss finish but if you are, no problems. I just cleaned the fish slime and water spots off of my screen this morning with a bottle of Windex after yesterday's trip and didn't have to worry about scratching the screen. I'm satisfied with them.

Screenshots require the following :

Blank 2G micro SD card & reader (this is the one I have ... 2GB microSD Secure Digital TransFlash Card with Reader (BMZ-C) )

Pushing the "Power" button, then the + (MOB) button (per pg 32 of the Operations Manual - http://www.lowrance.com/Root/Lowranc...0153-001_w.pdf ) Also note that it states that screenshots cannot be put on a Navionics Card (which I assume is referring to the Navionics map card)

Being as there is only one card port on a E5DSI ... if you have a map card installed, you would have to remove it & place the blank card in the unit in order to record a screenshot.
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As to the number of pics in your "quota" .... contact Slab & check on that.

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I checked your download link. For KY, it only shows two lakes ... one I don't fish, & the other I've fished since it was formed (it's also the one that my base map has the 7/17/27ft contours shown). Hopefully it will be of benefit to other owners.
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And yes ... the source card option is "Lowrance" for the already installed base map -- "Navionics" for the programmed map card from Navionics. But, with that in mind ... I'm wondering if you would also have to change the source card option, when changing out a map card to a blank card in order to take a screenshot ??

... cp