Technical information

Operationalprocedures
4Setminimumandmaximumdepthtothedesiredvalues.
5ClickOk.
Relatedtopics
•Depthviewonpage55
•BottomDetectiononpage140
Investigatinglowpingrate
ThisproceduresuggestsafewchecksyoucanmakeiftheEK60isunabletomeetyour
requiredpinginterval.
Insomecasesyoumayforexampleseearelevantmessage—Cannotmeetping
intervalrequirement–thatindicatesthattheEK60failstopingasfastasyou
havespecied.
Thepingrateisnormallylimitedbythemaximumrangesettings.
Itwillalsobedependantonhardwareissues.Thismaybe,forexample,howfast
yourcomputercanhandletheinformationfromeachping,howfastyoursystem
communicateswithexternalperipherals,howlongtimethesystemusestosavedata,and
thetransceiverrechargingtime.
NumerousparametersettingsonyourEK60systemmayalsoaffectthepingrate.
Observethesestepstoinvestigate.
Procedure
1ChecktheMax.rangedisplayintheNumericalview.
Thisvaluesshowsthemaximumdatacollectionrangeresultingfromallsettings
madeintheEK60.Ifthevalueisvalueishigherthanyoumayexpect,observe
theremainingstepstolocatethecause.
→Numericalviewonpage61
2CheckyourcurrentdisplayrangesetbytheSurfaceRangeandBottomRange
parametersforallviews.
Ifyouoperateinshallowwaters,butstillhasalargedepthrangeapplied,thiscan
reducethemaximumpingrate.
→SurfaceRangeonpage151
→BottomRangeonpage149
3Checkthebottomdetectionparametersforallchannels.
Ifthebottomdetectionrangesaresettoahighervaluethannecessary,thiscan
reducethemaximumpingrate.
→BottomDetectiononpage140
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