Chapter 1: Overview 1-3
General
General
1.1 General
The display unit is waterproof to CFR46 and can be installed either above or
below deck.
The unit includes:
• 7" or 10.4" PLUS display
• Trackpad
• Eleven dedicated (labeled) control keys
• Four soft keys (unlabeled) whose functionality changes
• Two slots for the C-MAP NT
®
chart cards
The display and keys can be illuminated for night-time use.
PLUS Display Units
Features
• Displays chart information from the C-MAP NT
®
chart cards (C-Cards)
• Uses position data from GPS, DGPS, WAAS or Loran-C technology
• Displays and transfers SeaTalk and NMEA data
• Half-screen windows to display additional data: Course Deviation Indica-
tor (CDI), Bearing and Distance Indicator (BDI), navigation data.
• Cursor echo across SeaTalk
• Choice of orientation: Head Up, Course Up and North Up
• The system can be connected to an ST80 Navigator keypad for entry of
alpha-numeric data.
Set Up Options
Set up options allow you to choose what is displayed, how it is displayed
(including language and units), bearing mode and how the display operates
with other equipment. You can view the cursor position and a variety of data
from otherequipment, e.g.speed, heading,depth, wind andtide informationin
a set of user-selectable data boxes. For systems with an autopilot, when the
status and locked heading information change the new data can be displayed.
Displayoptionsare providedinSystemSet Up,describedin Chapter 5.Screen
Presentation Options, described in Chapter 2 allow you to switch the cursor
and data boxes On/Off. The cursor box and user-selected data boxes can be
moved around the screen.