E 120 software upgrade

Robski97

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Jan 15, 2007
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North Bellmore, NY
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Guys the newest software for ur E120 is 3.31

It allows access to the new satellites that were recently put into serivce.

Rob
 
Used it last WE going from New Rochelle to Norfolk on a friends boat. Nice set up. Little quirky but nice. Little scary a first because it didn't power up properly. Had to reset the unit a couple of times. But then it worked great. I also like the photos it stores. Great feature to have before entering an unknown marina.
 
Rob, how does one access and install this upgrade?

[edit]I see that it's available on the Raymarine website. But how is it installed?
 
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You down load it to a little flash stick and install that in the plotter. Radio Shack sells them.
 
The E-120s are particular about the type of memory card they will recognize, I know this from experience.

I bought a ScanDisk from Radio Shack. Download the software from Raymarine, it is a zip file. Extract the files onto the ScanDisk card. There will be 2 files, one is a boot file and the other is the software update.

Put the ScanDisk in the E-120 and start (boot) it up. A screen will appear for updating the software. We have 2 E-120 units and the upgrade went smooth.

Note - after you update this software, the WAAS function is turned off by default. You need to turn this back on through the menu system, no big deal.

We carry two of the ScanDisk memory cards. One has the various versions of the software updates, just in case. After all they are computers and we have needed to use this once.

The other card we keep in the second unit (slave) and it has all the waypoints/routes/tracks backed up onto it. Again, from experience we have needed to re-install them once. One disk is a 512 meg and the other is a 1gig, just what was available.


Screen shot of satellite list after upgrade.
 

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Another note, Raymarine is planning to release another update for the E-Series systems some time late fall early winter. I believe this update will take care of some weather system issues (Sirius and AirMar). This is according to a Raymarine tech I spoke to.
 

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