Chapter 12: Alarms, Tidetrack, Currents, And Echo Sounding; Understanding Alarms - NorthStar 961 Reference Manual

Chapter 12 - Alarms, TideTrack, Currents, and Echo Sounding

Understanding alarms

Displaying alarms
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Alarms are designed to automatically alert you of certain
situations. The status of the alarms is updated every second,
and alarm messages are displayed in four different ways:
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at the bottom of any screen you're displaying
at the top of the CHART screen (this lets you still see the
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INFO BARs at the bottom of the screen)
on the ALARMS screen (on this screen, you can manually
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"clear," or stop, new alarms, although some are
auto-clearing, and you can view old alarms, which are
alarms that already have cleared)
on the ECHO SOUNDER screen (if you're using the echo
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sounder)
On this screen, if there aren't any new alarms, the CLEAR
ALARM key won't be displayed.
961/962 Operations and Reference Manual, Rev. A
Alarms screen