- Feb 14, 2009
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- Boat Info
- '07 42SS Carver, full electronics array
'03 380DA, RL80C+, ST7001, Kohl 7.3,4kw o/array sold
- Engines
- 8.1S Crusader express drives
Used boat, bought from Florida. During sea trials, the electronics were awesome (rest of the boat needed help, but that's another story). My goal is to have the chartplotter actually give me information about the lake it is on, Lake Allatoona, GA, like it was in Ft. Lauderdale and so far, I'm apparently unworthy.
Bridge has a Garmin 5212 (also Garmin HD radar, sonar and autopilot) that seems to be working perfectly. Transom has a Garmin 498 which also seems to be working fine as well. No chip in the 5212 (but on boot said it was preloaded with 2.1 something or other) and an odd chunky chip in the 498 dated Apr04 for lakes and rivers. Since I moved the boat from Florida to an inland lake, my chartplotter showed GPS based location, but no detail...just a page of yellowish beige...but showed a boat and tracked course fine. I got a BlueChart g2 HUS039R, thought I read the instructions to say to turn everything on and insert the card...which I did. There was some activity, things seemed to happen, and while leaving the card in, the next boot showed the 5212 still having the preloaded map, and acknowledging the existence of the secondary map card. However, the screen is still beige. I got nothin'. I went into the card management page and tried to merge or copy, and the screen showed a "Reading Data" bar, which seemed to hang at zero.
I looked at every button possible, saw nothing that appeared to tell the 5212 to look at the extension card, and no way to overwrite the card to RAM that I could see. I brought the card home to a PC that could read it, and it seems loaded with both an EULA directory which has multi-language Blue Chart support and a Garmin directory with an xml file and what looks like a huge and fairly recent gmapsupp.img file. The 5212 SD card isn't locked (I tried it though, both ways, locked and unlocked).
Could somebody point me in the right direction?
1. Is my procedure off? I thought I read directions, but certainly possible I misread them.
2. Bad chip?
3. Garmin doesn't work in fresh water without goat sacrifice?
4. Won't work until I finish the renaming ceremony?
I love the equipment, it looks great, and other than the small issue of actually telling me anything important, sure looks nice. Would appreciate any input...thanks.
Bridge has a Garmin 5212 (also Garmin HD radar, sonar and autopilot) that seems to be working perfectly. Transom has a Garmin 498 which also seems to be working fine as well. No chip in the 5212 (but on boot said it was preloaded with 2.1 something or other) and an odd chunky chip in the 498 dated Apr04 for lakes and rivers. Since I moved the boat from Florida to an inland lake, my chartplotter showed GPS based location, but no detail...just a page of yellowish beige...but showed a boat and tracked course fine. I got a BlueChart g2 HUS039R, thought I read the instructions to say to turn everything on and insert the card...which I did. There was some activity, things seemed to happen, and while leaving the card in, the next boot showed the 5212 still having the preloaded map, and acknowledging the existence of the secondary map card. However, the screen is still beige. I got nothin'. I went into the card management page and tried to merge or copy, and the screen showed a "Reading Data" bar, which seemed to hang at zero.
I looked at every button possible, saw nothing that appeared to tell the 5212 to look at the extension card, and no way to overwrite the card to RAM that I could see. I brought the card home to a PC that could read it, and it seems loaded with both an EULA directory which has multi-language Blue Chart support and a Garmin directory with an xml file and what looks like a huge and fairly recent gmapsupp.img file. The 5212 SD card isn't locked (I tried it though, both ways, locked and unlocked).
Could somebody point me in the right direction?
1. Is my procedure off? I thought I read directions, but certainly possible I misread them.
2. Bad chip?
3. Garmin doesn't work in fresh water without goat sacrifice?
4. Won't work until I finish the renaming ceremony?
I love the equipment, it looks great, and other than the small issue of actually telling me anything important, sure looks nice. Would appreciate any input...thanks.