P-Sea CVB20A User manual

P-Sea Software Co.
PO Box 1390
Morro Bay, CA 93442 USA
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P-Sea Fish Finder
The sounder module/option will have:
)640 pixel by 30 color resolution
)1000/600 watts output
)Speed and Temperature to .01 degrees
)Ethernet data transfer
)Multiple PC connection and data transfer to simplify
hookup; use one GPS, one depth sounder black box and
one transducer to feed data to up to 3 computers. Data is
transferred from PC to PC via the Ethernet cable.
)Bottom Classification; Hardness, Roughness and
Biomass
)Review of past sounder picture; jumps to position on
plotter as you scroll sounder history
)Several hour graphs of; Depth, temp., biomass, hardness
and roughness. Click on graph to jump to that location on
plotter screen.
)FishFinder marks show on plotter & give snapshot of
Fishfinder screen when mouse arrow placed on it.
)All the standard features of high-end sounders such as
auto range, auto gain, auto shift, variable pulse length,
multiple background colors, bottom alarm, fish alarm,
temp alarm, high/low power settings, bottom lock, zoom,
mix mode that combines both 50 & 200 khz together, and
bottom expansion
Some features you won't find in a standard
depth sounder like the bottom classification.
This gives you three more alarms for
hardness, roughness and biomass. The
biomass alarms also alerts the plotter portion
and creates a mark at the beginning and end
of the biomass. The end mark has the size
and depth of the biomass. All of this comes
with the P-Sea Sounder Option but if you
purchase the Bottom Classification for your
P-Sea WindPlot II then all three of these are
automatically recorded in your track history
for review at any time. A special color can be
selected that should allow you to determine
what type of bottom your past track was over
just by color. After collecting several past
tracks, one should be able to easily
determine what the bottom composition is.
If you clicked on the portion of the graph
shown here where the hardness was at it's
maximum causes the cursor on the plotter
screen to be turned on and moved to where
that hardness was located. Same goes for the biomass, temp and depth graphs. Same goes for the actual sounder picture.
History time can be in hours depending on the size of your monitor.
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When you are using the P-Sea FishFinder with
any P-Sea WindPlot program you can make a
FishFinder mark by right-clicking anywhere on
the FishFinder echo depth graph. When doing so,
a vertical red line is put on the FishFinder screen
where you clicked and a thumbnail of the
FishFinder screen is saved to disk. Then a green
square mark is made on the WindPlot screen at
the exact location where the fish finder echo
image was made as show here to the right.
Anytime you place the computers mouse arrow
over any one of these FishFinder Marks then the
thumbnail will appear letting you see what the
bottom looked like at that location.
Track color can change according to bottom hardness when used in conjunction
with a P-Sea WindPlot program. As seen here to the right, the harder bottom is
shown in red and lets you easily see where the harder (most likely rocky) bottom
is or find a transition between mud and sand. The easiest way to work this mode
is to fish for your species and make notes where you get the best catch. This most
likely will be a specific color or range of colors. Then you just look over your past
tracks and locate the same color and that is most likely where you will find what you
are looking for!
You can connect up to 3 PC’s to one of these CVB20A
black box depth sounder and all 3 can control the settings
If you click the REVIEW button seen in the top example,
a slider appears and the cursor on the plotter appears and
moves as you scroll the picture history back. You can
control the amount of history to be displayed depending
on the amount of memory you have available up to many
hours at a time. 4/2/2013