Raymarine Raychart Chartplotter RC530 PLUS manual Day/Night, Help, Key Beep, MOB Data, Units

Chapter 7: Setting Up the System Defaults 7-7

Day/Night

This option allows you to change the display between day and night modes. If you select NIGHT mode, a different color palette, more suited to night time viewing is used.

Help

When Help is set to ON, a prompt appears when selecting a soft key or menu choice, and when using the context-sensitive cursor. The help message is cleared when an action is selected.

Soft Keys

When the Soft Keys option is set to ON, the default soft keys are displayed if no other operation is in progress.

When the Soft Keys option is set to OFF, the default soft keys are only displayed when a soft key is pressed, and they disappear if no operation is performed for 10 seconds.

Key Beep

This option controls whether or not the keys make a noise when you press them.

MOB Data

This option controls whether MOB data is based on position data, or on dead reckoning (DR). Dead reckoning normally provides a better indication of the course to an object in the water, on the assumption that your vessel and the object are both subject to the same tide and wind effects.

Menu Timeout Period

With no timeout set, menus and soft key labels remain displayed until you clear them by pressing ENTER, CLEAR or the appropriate dedicated key.

If you set a value here, the menus and soft key labels will be cleared if a key has not been pressed for the specified number of seconds.

This setting does not affect the default soft key labels, which are controlled by the Soft Keys option (see above).

Units

You can set the units for speed, depth and temperature. The units you set will be used to display all data, including information received from other instruments on the system. However, the distance units do not affect the instrumented range of the radar, which is always in nautical miles.

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