Confused ?????

[BentRod]

Elite 7 manual says a hard return is a wide yellow area, however, most people say bright red is hard bottom. Could someone please educate me on this matter. Obviously I'm new to the color world of graphs. thanks

[FISH ON]

Adjust color palette . I like red for hard return

[DEVOREFLYER]

Helpful set up info:

ELITE 7 & ELITE 5 HDI SET UP SHEET

SONAR ONLY

PRESS ADJUST AND PRESS ENTER and then:

SENSITIVITY: Set the amount of power 70% in deep water and 60% in shallow water.

AUTO SENSITIVITY: This setting works well in all water depths. If desired, turnoff and use the sensitivity settings above if desire.

RANGE: set to your choice so you can SEE the bottom on a FULL screen. There is a customer setting that can be set to specific ranges as needed,

AUTO DEPTH RANGE: This locks the unit so the bottom is always on the screen. Leave this feature off, unless you want to “scout” an area of varying depths.

FREQUENCY: 200 kHz in fresh water. Use 83 kHz a larger cone in fresh water and use 50 kHz for deep salt water fishing past 400 feet.

PING SPEED: Set to Normal

SONAR OPTIONS: 1. Noise reject set to LOW 2. Surface Clarity OFF 3. Spilt zoom as needed 4. Split Flasher as needed 5. Color WHITE 6. Amplitude Scope is a vertical Flasher, set as needed. Off is preferred but select the screen as needed. 7. Fish ID Off!

STOP SONAR Use as needed

LOG SONAR Use to record any screen as needed. Must use a Micro SD Card

OVERLAY DATA Set the screens up as needed.

SETTINGS:

MANUAL MODE The restricts digital depth capability. Leave OFF! For advanced users only

DOWNSCAN OVERLAY This adds the Down Beam over the Sonar beam. Use as needed

FISHING MODE Fresh Water for most anglers

RESET FISHING MODE takes the machine to General Mode

INSTALLATION: 1. Keel Offset leave at 0 2. Water Calibration leave off 3. reset water Speed leave off. 4. Temperature calibration leave off 5. Current water temperatures is correct 6. Transducer Type HDSI 83/200 455/800 kHz BE SURE TO SAVE SETTINGS IF CHANGED

SYSTEM: LANGUAGE English? AUDIO Leave off TIME set to correct time. GPS shows all satellites TRIP CALCULATOR use as needed ADVANCED MODE Leave off. Only for advance users. RESTORE DEFAULT this sets the unit back to factory settings. BROWSE FILES Shows items on the SD card ABOUT Unit serial number, date manufactured and other user data.

CHART Lowrance or Navionics card. COG extension leave off GRID LINES leave off. WAYPOINTS TRAILS AND ROUTES leave ON WAYPOINTS TRAILS AND ROUTES OPENS THE FILE.

ALARMS sets the alarms to desired alarm ranges

UNITS Mode U S Standard

NEMA 2000 Opens up the files to select options as needed.

DOWN SCAN SCREENS

ADJUST CONTRAST Set the contrast so the screen is easy to view

AUTO CONTRAST Set as needed

RANGE leave in AUTO DEPTH RANGE

FREQUENCY 455 kHz for wide bottom reading and 800 for narrow depth reading

PING SPEED Leave in Normal

DOWN SCAN OPTIONS: 1. Noise reject set as needed SURFACE CLARITY Off 2. Split Zoom set as needed COLOR Set as needed

STOP SONAR Set as needed.

LOG SONAR Log sonar as needed

OVERLAY DATA Sets overlay items on screen as needed

[BentRod]

thanks for the input. Much appreciated.

[BentRod]

I did some on the water adjusting today. The first thing I did was set my colorline at 58% which was previously 64%. The later percentage was giving me too much yellow, hence colorline too high. Adjusted to 58% gave me a wider range of colors. I went over bottom depths that I could see the bottom visually and compared this to what I saw on the Elite 7. I found on a hard bottom with rocks on top, the structure (bottom) shows bright yellow and the rocks (cover) show red, as well , so do dense bushes. I could even see thin greenish blue line on top of rocks which I believe was the thick algae. In turn when I went over hard bottom no rocks I was receiving a wide yellow return. Thanks again!