Dixie Life
Senior Member
Been waiting to install a new chartplotter for a year now. Couldn't decide between Garmin 740s or Ray Marine e7d. Finally threw in the towel today; orderer the e7d. Should have it Thursday. Suggestions?
Send it back and get the 740s.
Why is that?
Well, I'm on the RM horse now and in the middle of the stream. So I'm hanging on for the ride. So far I've learned that RM help for the individual is none existant. If your a Corp., great; a private boat owner, "All of our reps are busy". I've been unable to even get a straight answer on which cable I need to connect my existing transducer to their e7D. Shouldn't be that difficult IMHO! Bottom line; RM=PC Garmin=Mac.
So far I've learned that RM help for the individual is none existant. If your a Corp., great; a private boat owner, "All of our reps are busy". I've been unable to even get a straight answer on which cable I need to connect my existing transducer to their e7D. Shouldn't be that difficult IMHO! Bottom line; RM=PC Garmin=Mac.
have you ever tried Furuno? Amazing gear, but the operating manual must be by the helm station at all times......
Like anything else, if you use it enough and use it frequently you'll eventually learn all the things that are unintuitive. But if it's a piece of equipment you don't use all that often you're always sliding back down toward the bottom of the learning curve between uses.
The NavNet2 gear, which I have, must have been designed to have an EE around to install it. Very painful.
Ron
Interesting. My wife and I installed our NavNet ourselves. Of course having the antenna mount on the flying bridge face made running the cable a five minute task. One of the only two advantages of a flying bridge antenna mount.
Marin, isn't that radar transmitting right into your crouch? You better get a check up. You may be sterile.
Ron
That could be turned into a profit center to defray the cost of boating. Can you imagine a none surgical vasectomy? Plenty of people would pay for not having to go through the surgery, and you could charge for the cruise too!