New Raymarine E series Firmware Update available.
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jimmy_the_builder
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This may not apply on the E series, but when I did the firmware upgrade on my C120 (non-widescreen) the cumulative log was reset to 0 - just fyi.
Cheers
Jimmy
PaulGooch
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When i did my C90W everything was reset. Took me an hour to get it back how i had it lol
longjohnsilver
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I did it yesterday, there are instructions on the Raymarine site but they can be difficult to find! You have to extract the files using the self extractor, then you'll find both a DOB and PKG file. It's these that you need to copy to the cf card.
It's all there in the Q&A section. Now off to the boat to do the update.
I should have read the rest of the replies!!!! Anyhow, thanks to Poltergeist for pointing out the update.
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jfm
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I didn't when I did my E120s :-?
jimmy_the_builder
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Fred rift I know, apologies, but even more weirdly yesterday I noticed that the log has gained about 5700nm all on its own over the past couple of months. Maybe the boat's trying to tell me I need an(other) upgrade??
Cheers
Jimmy
EddieBlue
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Thanks I will!
Eddie
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jfm
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Fred rift I know, apologies, but even more weirdly yesterday I noticed that the log has gained about 5700nm all on its own over the past couple of months. Maybe the boat's trying to tell me I need an(other) upgrade??
Cheers
Jimmy
This is a wild guess, but that sounds like the s/ware glitch that happened on Magnum and a couple of other boats. The boat's position darted between 2 points, 1/2nm apart, all day. At anchor, the track looked like a pile of straight line scribble on the screen. If you left your machine powered up overnight with this glitch, you'd do a couple of thousand miles
More fred drift. I have just installed a new E140w and the ground log is zero of course. I'd like to make it the same as the gps log I took out, namely 2400nm. Anyone know how to do this? I was thinking of putting it and a GPS mushroom in my handluggage and switching it on on my next couple of EU flights. Problem is finding a 12v power supply on a shorthaul plane. Any ideas?
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poltergeist
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jimmy_the_builder
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Be an interesting conversation at the security scanner...
Is it worth an ask to Raymarine? Surely this would just be a flash update somehow? I imagine they'd just need to give you a custom update file.
Cheers
Jimmy
BartW
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with a 12V battery belt you would look rather suspicious
have you tried calling the Raymarine software guy's ?
for a good customer they would probably do a special effort
MapisM
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Use two mushrooms, put one on the bow and one astern. Then you just need a timed relay to switch the chartplotter connection between them, say every minute or so. It'll take a while, but can be done onboard and unattended.
Just do the math for how many 58' jumps it takes to cover 2400nm...
jfm
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Brilliant! I like how your mind works! I might do it in the garden so can get slightly more than 58 feet spacing
My son is already soldering the transistor switch for me
MapisM
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Apologies if I'm teaching your son how to suck eggs, but he'd better consider that both mushrooms should be kept on all the time.
It's just the NMEA signal feed to the chartplotter which has to be switched, otherwise you should wait for the fixing at every switch.
jfm
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Hurricane
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Brilliant! I like how your mind works! I might do it in the garden so can get slightly more than 58 feet spacing
My son is already soldering the transistor switch for me
Surely, it would be easier to write a little PC app to update the plotter using standard NMEA sentences.
See, it pays to have a PC integrated - see my report in current MBY.
BTW
My log didn't reset when I did a firmware upgrade on the G Series.
jfm
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It would, and I see your logic, but I dont have a clue how. I dont know how to write the code and create the sentences that make the plotter think the boat has gone to Gibraltar and back (say). Is there an idiots guide website?
BartW
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I am sure you tryed here:
https://www.raymarine.com/login.asp...irect=&p_lva=&p_sp=&p_li=&p_next_page=ask.php
https://www.raymarine.com/login.asp...irect=&p_lva=&p_sp=&p_li=&p_next_page=ask.php
Hurricane
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Done a quick Google and here's a copy of the NMEA spec
http://www.tronico.fi/OH6NT/docs/NMEA0183.pdf
I've not given it much thought but probably use the GGA sentence.
Probably a little Visual Basic app to output the sentence on the PC's RS232.
Probably read it back again so that I could see that the correct data is being sent and when everything is working connect the PC's TX to the Raymarine's spare NMEA input.