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(More customer reviews)I just set this up on my boat in Beach Haven, NJ, about 15m n. of Atlantic City.I'm about 5 miles from the inlet to the ocean.
Connecting it to power was a snap.It powered up, with the microSD Navionics card installed.I set it up for the NJ coast.
There are a number of set up screens which allow you to configure what data you want to see on the chart screen.With 5" of screen, there's plenty of room for all the info you want to see.My marina is right on the ICW.The Navionics card doesn't exactly match the charts, and the ICW boundaries are marked in purple, which is hard to see against the blue background.Once I got into open water, the chart's white deep water areas, with depths, were clearly visible and easy to follow.
Zooming in and out for more detail is accomplished with a single key push, good for underway quick checking of areas of concern.The screen is easily visible under all lighting conditions.
The biggest negative is the manual.Lowrance uses this manual for both their chartplotter and fishfinder.Almost all the manual is dedicated to the fishfinder, so working with the chartplotter is mostly self teaching.
It comes with an NMEA output but no cable, so I wasn't able to interface it to my computer.
Overall, I'd say this is a very good, moderately priced chartplotter, typical of Lowrance's dedication to value. I got it for $480 bundled with the Navionics card, but the place I bought it from raised prices by $50 the next day, so typical price, WITH the card seems to be about $525.There are lots of places selling the base unit for this price so make sure you get the 'bundled' package.
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Product Description:
A feature-packed GPS+EGNOS+MSAS chartplotter with a brilliant, easy-to-view color display.
These bundles include a custom 2GB Navionics Gold micro SD card with full Gold coastal/offshore coverage of US and Canadian waters along with coverage of The Great Lakes, Alaska, Hawaii, the Bahamas and over 125 major Canadian lakes.
The new color Elite-5m Gold Chartplotter includes many Canadian inland lakes
and coastal data along with US coastal data and delivers high navigation performance and high color for your on-the-water journeys, and at a very affordable low price. All provide any boat with incredible precision and functionality, in addition to a spectacular new view.
The brilliant 5 in./12.7 cm, 480x480 pixel SolarMAX 256-color TFT display has unmatched screen brightness, contrast, resolution and viewing detail at wider angles and in bright sunlight. Adjustable screen and keypad backlight improves usability and visibility day or night.
The internal 16-channel GPS antenna provides great WAAS+EGNOS+MSAS precision for navigation. And an external antenna option is also available for customized applications.A waterproof microSD memory card slot is fully compatible with Navionics Gold chartcards, as well as Fishing Hot Spots and LakeMaster mapcards in the micro SD format for U.S. anglers. Built-in memory allows for up to 3,000 waypoints, 100 routes/100 waypoints per route and 100 retraceable plot trails/up to 10,000 points per trail.
All of this, packaged with easy-to-use menus with Advanced Mode to expand features selection. An all-new case/mounting design provides for easy one-hand tilt/swivel view adjustment, removal and re-install - even fits same cut-out for previous 5 in./7 cm models for in-dash installations. And a new uniplug 1/4-turn connectors are compatible with earlier Lowrance uniplug installations to simplify upgrades to any new Elite model.
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