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Location: Athens, Ohio | Howdy. I got a LMS 520 c unit installed now, and last night I was trying to run a Lakemaster chip of Minnesota that I got from TopH2O. How do you tell when you are reading off the chip and not the Lowrance background map?
I went to a browse files prompt and the unit seems to be 'seeing' the chip. Without actually being on the lake, I can't tell if I'm reading off the chip or not. The guy I got the map chip from thought there would be pink trail lines on it - nope! Now, I understand you can't really save trail lines to a map chip, you have to put in a memory card chip and save your trails to that.
Just confused, any help is appreciated. Also, the underwater contour lines were in white which made them hard to see. Any way to change that? thanks! m
Edited by mikie 5/21/2008 12:25 PM
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Location: Duluth, MN | Just use your cursor to zoom in on a lake that you know is on the chip...Mille Lacs is the easiest i guess. You will see the 1 foot contours. To verify you can remove the chip and zoom in on the lake again and you won't see the same level of detail. The chip loads itself you don't need to tell the unit to use it. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | My dad has a Lowrance H20 that was not showing the contour lines with the chip in now that i think about it. It was a setting called Detail Level maybe..foggy on this one...he had turned it off while he was button mashing...i turned it to high and the lines came back. |
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| For changing contour lines: hit menu, menu, select screen, go down to the box that says normal or high contrast, hit enter, select night view. Deep water now is horrible, but at least you can see the shallower lines. If you have split screen hit pages 2x to toggle to sonar, hit menu go down to sonar features and go down and select either white background or bottom color tracking so you don't have to have night view on your sonar as well.
hit pages twice to toggle back to the gps side and zoom out, you should see a boxed in area. The area within the box is the section of the chip that is working.
Hope this helps
Edited by veha45 5/21/2008 1:56 PM
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Sounds like a good start, thanks so much! m |
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Location: north central wisconsin | mikie, I don't have my unit in front of me, but I beleive you can go to menu then map options(might have to hit menu twice if I remember correctly). Then you toggle to select the map you want to use. This needs to be done with the Navionics chips, when used in Lowrance units. However, I am pretty sure that Lowrance 'recognizes' Lakemaster immediately, and defaults to the use of the chip whenever in the unit. Later. |
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| Reef Hawg,
Check out the product emulators on the lowrance website. Download the one for for your unit. This way you can make adjustment and try different settings without hooking up your unit on the boat.
http://www.lowrance.com/en/Downloads/Product-Emulators/
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| Plus check and see if your unit needs a Software Product Update. Mine did and it made a big difference. |
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| If the map needs to be turned on press menu, go down to map data, hit enter. hit right arrow and go down to map options and select the chip. If you have a unit with the hard drive it is a little different, menu, map data, go to map options and select your what info you want to see (hard drive, navionics, lowrance mmc, or lowrance base map etc), but if you have a navionics chip you highlight navionics in the first section and then go to the next box down and select the region of the chip that you want displayed.
hope this helps |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Thanks Mo. Will check out the emulator. As far as updates go, will not do another for my 111 or 25. I actually went back to the 1.7 update from the newer one when my unit would no longer give a good depth sound in water under 4'. I'll stick with what is in there. However, I have heard that the newest update has less bottom clutter(the blue haze that shows up when in manual mode in high sens). If they've corrected the shallow water readings, I might try it. |
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| Definately do not give up on the updates. This year I would just advise that you give it a little time to see how this one turns out. The way it was explained to me, was that last year Lowrance (like TV) went from an analog signal to a digital one. The theory behind it is that you should have a faster unit that can send and receive more info. The software wasn't able to handle the amount of info that was being received when inside really shallow water or just weedy areas inside of 15ft and they locked up. If you wait until the middle of summer there should have been enough people out there to be a guinea pig for this software to see how it works. |
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