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Vexilar Fl 18 Instuctions

JeremyCampbell

By JeremyCampbell
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JeremyCampbell Experienced

JeremyCampbell

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Can anyone steer me to a video or lititure that gives easier instruction on how all the dials work and the colors on the flasher.This is my first flasher and I'm one of those guys that need a dummy book to learn anything.lol.I only have ice fished by sight not by electronics.Thanks. smile

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bturck Proficient

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I bought the 18 years ago and it will serve you well. Don't over do the sensitivity, use only as much as you need to read the bottom and your lure. Also be sure that you have your transducer at the bottom of the ice or you can pull multiple echoes from the from the sides of the hole. Hope this helps some

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Jared_P Enthusiast

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When using the bottom lock zoom, turn the gain up higher before you put it in zoom mode. Drop it back after the zoom is set - this will help ensure the zoom window locks to a maximum range.

And so I have learned a new trick to try...thank you!

JP

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bobbymalone Grand Master

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so now please explain why you would use bottom lock in an ice fishing situation

I've used it ice fishing, but pretty rarely, and not sure if it's doing anything.

Sometimes my flasher will switch back and forth between two different bottoms... Like if it's on Zoom mode the bottom will be marked at 0 and then just flip to the bottom being a foot or two higher. I can drop my jig into what looks like the bottom on the flasher, but it's not touching. I think it might be an artifact of setting up on a steep slope or over big rocks, but I'm not sure what's going on. Bottom lock seems to improve it. Especially if the flasher is flipping back and forth like crazy.

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bobbymalone Grand Master

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When using the bottom lock zoom, turn the gain up higher before you put it in zoom mode. Drop it back after the zoom is set - this will help ensure the zoom window locks to a maximum range.

I'm totally confused about this.

What does "ensure the zoom window locks to a maximum range" mean?

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If you have your gain high when setting zoom, the zoom bottom typically shows much closer to 6 o'clock on the dial than with your gain set to a minimum. The closer your bottom displays to 6, the more fishable water (range) within the zoom window. Most my experience toying with this has been on fl20 and 22 units, pretty sure it works on the 18 as well.

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