LOWRANCE SOUTH AFRICA Issue 10 | Page 18

HOW P WER OFF YOUR UNIT TO PROPERLY Contributors: Glenn May and BassResource.com All you do is you hit the power button once and Did you know then a little menu comes up and you'll see it says you could be damaging your Lowrance unit and not even know it? Well you can. "stand by" and then "power off." R emember back when we had the black and white units, and the early colour- screen models when they first came out? It was really easy to shut them off: you just hit the power bu on and held onto it un l the unit turned off. Or you could even shut the power off to the boat and it was fine. But you can't do that with today's models. Reason being is that the current models are like mini computers. You wouldn't just unplug the power to your computer at home, would you? No. Why? Because that would cause problems. Some of the more advanced units may have extra func on op ons that pop up when you hit the power bu on Same thing applies to the new Lowrance models. Lowrance units are mini computers now. If you power them off the way you used to, over me, you're going to start having issues. So there's a proper way to turn Lowrance units off, and it's really quite easy. But with both menus, you should just select "power off ” It's that simple. It's really quick and easy. 10 18 lowrance south africa