Welcome To The Flx-28 - VEXILAR FL Series Owner's Manual

WE L COME TO T HE F LX - 28
Welcome to the age of the FLX series!
A unique brushless data transfer design
system allows for the creation of a
breakthrough flasher display with digital
depth and Auto Ranging technology.
The top of the line FLX-28 is totally
revolutionary in the world of winter flasher
sonar technology.
The following instructions should be read
before you take your FLX-28 to the water to
ensure you fully understand the capabilities
and limitations of this unit. What makes the
FLX-28 so special is the performance based automatic features that allow you to start
fishing faster and easier than ever before. There has never been more features inside a
single flasher sonar system than the FLX-28.
FLX-28 Auto Range Operation
It is possible to confuse your "Auto Range"
operation when fishing over very soft lake bottoms
or during conditions of thick ice. This can confuse
the software, as it cannot find a bottom point in
the return signal strong enough to trigger a lock on
the bottom. For this reason, there is a three second
delay beginning when you put the transducer in
the water before the unit attempts to lock. This
gives the software time to process the signal it is
seeing to best determine the true bottom point.
When soft bottom conditions exist, you may
need to turn up your gain initially to help enable
the program to find bottom. Then you can turn
the gain back down when fishing. If you find your
Auto setting cannot lock on bottom, the range
setting will default to the 300' range. You can
then simply switch to a Manual Range option.
NOTE: There is nothing wrong with your Vexilar if the FLX-28 cannot lock on range
automatically. This is a very unique fishing scenario, so try switching to Normal mode,
a manual range and/or moving to a new location. The depth should then lock properly.
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FLX-28 LP Mode & Open Water Use
The Digital Depth display is disabled in Low Power
mode. This is because accurate digital depth readings
cannot be maintained when running in this mode.
Because the Auto Range technology was designed
specifically for an ice fishing environment, it is
recommended to use Manual Range settings for open
water use. Note that while in the Manual Range
settings the digital depth readout will only display up
to 50 feet. If you lose the digital bottom depth reading
in a known area of less than 50 feet of water, or it does not seem to match with what the
flasher display is reading, these factors may come into play:
1. Very Soft Bottom
2. Too many fish
(Depth readings will jump up and back to bottom as fish pass)
3. Too Much Vegetation
4. Your actual depth may be deeper than the current range selected.
(Shift to 50 foot manual range)
NOTE: When fishing in very shallow water, you will see that the FLX-28 will not register
a digital depth readout when you are in waters shallower than 3 feet.
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