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Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-) | Just got this unit in the off season and love it so far. Finally understand how many of you said you could tell bottom composition from the finder lol. My question is what size and type sd card are you running for recording? Sandisk is what I've run in my cameras but all are older. Considering one of the new extreme plus or extreme pro cards. I'll have my lakemaster chip in one slot and would like a card big enough to save data from several lakes at a time. Thanks for your help guys. Russ |
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| Not sure I follow exactly how you are using the sd card--you can make sonar recordings onto an SD card, this is reallyhelpful for learning how to use the unit among other things. You can also use a recording with birds sonarchart program to create a map of a lake. However, I'm not aware of any need to make a recording for different lakes and store it on the card. Knowing how you'll use it may help someone to recommend a card. I use an 8gig SD card on my humminbirds, I've never made recordings but as an example right now I have the latest software update and about a dozen screenshots on it and it's using a tiny % of the space available--8gigs is a huge amount of data and that's a fairly small SD card by todays standards. If you fill it you can store anything you want to keep on a computer too as long as your PC will either take the SD card or you have a USB/SD adaptor. I don't think (?) there's any reason to NOT use a larger capacity card, but it might actually be nicer to get a couple smaller capacity cards just for ease of use if you'll be putting images or recordings on a PC, that way you can make sure to always have an empty card in your unit.
Not exactly the answer to your question, but hopefully it helps.
Edited by Macintosh 7/17/2015 4:06 PM
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Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-) | Thanks macintosh. I'm looking to map some waters i fish that aren't charted. Haven't tried to accomplish this yet lol but hoping to figure it out. Also read that recording some of the sonar footage and re watching it would reveal alot that i miss otherwise. New to it as i upgraded from a cheap piranha finder. Thanks for your help Russ |
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Location: davis,IL | I'm using a 4gb card in my units, if one is to believe the units "counter" you have about 3000 hours of record time.
Edited by muskydope 7/17/2015 5:27 PM
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| In that case Id probably get whatever card is most reasonably priced--pretty sure the last time I bought one it was cheaper to get 2 8gig cards than it was to get one 16gig card. I dont think you'll need to store too much data on the card though--to make a chart my understanding is you'll need to download the recording onto a PC and then it puts the map onto the zeroline card from autochart, or you upload it to navionics and they'll process it as an update to your navionics card. Once youve processed it though, theres no reason to keep the recording and you can delete it from the card to free up space. |
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