Off Centering The Display - Furuno FR-8062 Operator's Manual

1. OPERATIONAL OVERVIEW
1.19.5 Choosing target strength which triggers target alarm
You may choose the target strength level which triggers the alarm as follows:
1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
2. Choose the Initial sub menu from the System menu and the press the ENTER key.
3. Choose Alarm Level and then press the ENTER key.
Low
Medium
High
4. Choose the echo strength level which you want to trigger the target alarm.
5. Press the ENTER key.
6. Press the MENU key to close the menu.
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Off Centering the Display

Own ship position, or sweep origin, can be displaced to expand the view field without switching to
a larger range scale. The sweep origin can be off-centered to the cursor position, but not more
than 75% of the range in use; if the cursor is set beyond 75% of the range scale, the sweep origin
will be off-centered to the point of 75% of the limit.
Ship's speed
X 0.5 = Amount of shift(%)
Shift speed setting
This feature is not available on the 72 nm or 96 nm range scale nor in the true motion mode.
The display may be off centered manually, or automatically according to ship's speed. Press the
OFF CENTER key successively to choose desired off centering method or turn off centering, in
the sequence of manual, automatic, off. OFF CENTER appears at the top left corner on the dis-
play when off centering is enabled. Off center is not available when the zoom function is in use.
1.20.1 Automatic off center
The amount of automatic shift is calculated according to ship's speed, and the amount of shift is
limited to 50% of the range in use. For example, if you set the shift speed setting for 15 knots and
the ship is running at 10 knots the amount of shift will be about 34%. The formula for determining
shift amount is as shown below. Automatic shift mode is only available in the head-up mode.
Choosing speed to use
1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
2. Choose the Initial sub menu from the System menu and press the ENTER key.
3. Choose Max Shift Speed and then press the ENTER key.
15
(1-99)
4. Choose the speed to use and then press the ENTER key.
5. Press the MENU key to close the menu.
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