Simrad ES80 - Selecting Normal Mode to Start Pinging

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SelectingNormalmodetostart"pinging"
Inordertotransmit("ping")youmustsettheES80toNormalmode.
Context
TheOperationfunctioncontrolstheoperatingmodeoftheES80.Y oucansetitto
Inactive,NormalorReplay.NormalmodeallowstheES80totransmit("ping")through
thewater,andtoreceivetheechoes.
Caution
YoumustneverstartES80transmissions("pinging")whentheshipisindrydock.The
transducermaybedamagedifittransmitsinopenair.
Thetransmission("pinging")fromtheES80canbeturnedonoroff.ThePingfunction
enablesordisablestheES80transmissionsintothewater.OncepingingisOn,usethe
PingModefunctiontochoosehowoftentheES80shalltransmit.UsethePingInterval
functiontochoosethetime(inmilliseconds)betweeneachtransmission("ping")when
PingModeissettoInterval.
Procedure
1OpentheOperationmenu.
2SelectOperation,andsetittoNormal.
TheOperationfunctioncontrolstheoperatingmodeoftheES80.Youcansetitto
Inactive,NormalorReplay.NormalmodeallowstheES80totransmit("ping")
throughthewater,andtoreceivetheechoes.TheES80isnowreadyforuse.
3SetPingtoOn.
ThePingfunctionenablesordisablestheES80transmissionsintothewater.Once
pingingisOn,usethePingModefunctiontochoosehowoftentheES80shall
transmit.UsethePingIntervalfunctiontochoosethetime(inmilliseconds)
betweeneachtransmission("ping")whenPingModeissettoInterval.
4SetPingModetoMaximum.
ThiswillmaketheES80pingwithmaximumpingrate("speed").
Thepingrateisnormallylimitedbythemaximumrangesettings.Itwillalso
bedependantonhardwareissues.Thismaybe,forexample,howfastyour
ProcessorUnitcanhandletheinformationfromeachping,howfastyoursystem
communicateswithexternalperipherals,orhowlongtimethesystemusestosave
data.
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