PC Planner - Help Needed - Furuno GP 7000
Hi all I recently purchased a PC Planner which is surposed to:
The PC-Planner is designed to turn your home computer
into a navigation planning tool. Using the same C-MAP Max/NT+
electronic chart cartridges that you use on your boat, you can
display all of your electronic charts in full colour on your PC screen.
PC-Planner can be used for viewing charts, zooming, panning, entering
user points, creating routes, and entering A-B functions. In fact, every
planning function of your charting system is now easy to do on your PC.
I also have a Furuno GP 7000 GPS which has the C Map Max chart card.Anyway after placing the C-map card in the C-Card slot and the SD-card
in the other slot I managed to enter a 100 odd spots onto the sd card and
view all of the maps and charts as stated (Was pretty impressed).
The problem is now when I place my C Map back in the GPS it shuts down
the unit. (Won't load or do anything)
Someone mentioned that it may have made the card corrupt and useless. Another card is about $400 so hopefully there is an easy solution.If anyone has any idea of how to check / recover / reload or anything
I could do to the C-Map would be much apprieciated.
Or if anyone has any previous experience with the PC Planner / C Map's
and could have a chat would be a life saver.
Cheers and hopefully hear from someone soon.
Starbug
Posts: 563
Date Joined: 27/08/09
OK a bit of fault finding.
OK a bit of fault finding. But first only insert or remove cards while the gps is switched off.
Remove all cards from the gps.
Will the GPS fire up with no map card?
Can you map card still be read with PC Planner?
Are you trying to boot with a SD memory card in the GPS? If so what size?
doublej
Posts: 169
Date Joined: 08/07/09
Thanks Starbug
I will try what you have mentioned tomorrow.
Thanks for your input.
Cheers
doublej
Posts: 169
Date Joined: 08/07/09
Thanks Starbug
I will try what you have mentioned tomorrow.
Thanks for your input.
Cheers
strike_zone
Posts: 403
Date Joined: 09/09/10
i hope you didnt load it on your c map sd card
if you have you may of fucked it you are supposed to get a blank sd card to do all your transfering of info between your plotter and pc then you put your c map card in to view the info on a map screen i think you need to call c map for some technical assistance direct i wouldnt trust what most people on here tell you
doublej
Posts: 169
Date Joined: 08/07/09
Cheers
I will try and give someone a call.
Hopefully I haven't done what youi said. (I don't think I have)
Septimus
Posts: 146
Date Joined: 14/11/10
PC PLANNER
G'day Doublej,
I had been using PC-Planner for almost 10 years.
IMO it is a clunky, temperamental, piss of shit piece of software!!
Amongst a number of issues over the years, the absolute classic bug is that when transferring waypoints/routes from PC to PLOTTER a (small) percentage of the waypoints are corrupted/altered (by some minutes of arc)!!???
So the practical outcome is that some of the waypoints on your plotter are out by up to ~ 100m (remember these are waypoints that you have punched in on your plotter while on the water fishing - then transferred to your PC - then transferred back onto your plotter). I wipe all the waypoints off my plotter after each day out, as my boat is penned and the plotter is fixed into the dash.
I've called PC-Planner (or whatever they call themselves) over the years looking for a fix, and their response has always been that they acknowledge (very reluctantly) the problem and that they are going to fix it in the next release - WHICH IS BULLSHIT OF COURSE - to the best of my knowledge no fix has been made!!
My solution was to buy a HDS-10 plotter and bracket mount it, so I can unplugg the whole thing and take it home with me.
Mate, I apologise for the rant, which I know doesn't directly address your problem, but, I thought you should be aware of a what I believe is a fairly fatal flaw for navigation software to have.