Eagle Electronics 500C, 500CDF manual Section System & GPS Setup Options

Section 8:

System & GPS Setup Options

Alarms

This unit has several GPS alarms. The factory default setting has all of these but the anchor alarm turned on. You can turn the alarms off and on and change their distance settings.

You can set an arrival alarm to flash a warning message and sound a tone when you cross a preset distance from a waypoint. For example, if you have the arrival alarm set to .1 mile, then the alarm will flash a message when you come within .1 mile of the recalled waypoint.

The off course alarm warns you when your track drifts too far to the right or left of the course line to the waypoint. For example, if the alarm is set to .1 mile, then the alarm flashes a message if you drift .1 of a mile or more to the right or left of the line to the waypoint.

The anchor alarm is triggered when you drift outside of a preset radius. Again, using the .1 mile as an example, if you're anchored and your boat moves more than .1 of a mile, the alarm will flash a message and sound a tone.

Alarms command, left; Alarm menu, right.

To change alarm settings:

1.Press MENUMENU↓ to ALARMSENTENT.

2.Scroll ↓ or ↑ to select the desired category, then press ENT to check or clear the Enabled box. This turns the alarm on (checked) or off (un- checked.)

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