11.3ALARMS
This menu is used to select and setup audible and visual Alarms. Available alarms are Arrival, XTE, Depth, Anchor and Grounding Alarm.
Arrival Alarm | : Alerts when the vessel is approaching a single destination point or when arriving at a leg in a route. |
| Available selections: 0.00 to 9.99NM. |
XTE Alarm | : Alerts when the vessel is deviating from a defined course. Available selections: 0.00 to 9.99NM. |
Depth Alarm | : Alerts when the received depth Value from the optional Fish Finder or depth finder inputting NMEA |
| data into the chartplotter is lower than the selected value. Available selections: 0000 to 3000 FT. |
Anchor Alarm | : Alerts when the ships moves off a selected locations by a selected distance. Available selections: |
| 0.00 to 9.99NM. |
Audible Alarm | : Enables or disables the alarm beep. |
Grounding Alarm : This function looks ahead of the vessels heading to see if a potential danger exists. When the Grounding Alarm is enabled the chartplotter will draw a triangle in front of the vessel on the chart page showing the area that is being searched as shown below. The depth and range (distance) of the area the chartplotter looks ahead for a shallow area can be set using this function.
The following warning appears when the Grounding Alarm is enabled:
NOTES
The Grounding Alarm function only operates with the new NT+
When any of the objects checked are found for the first time, the chartplotter shows a pop up window to alert the user of the possible danger. The name of each new dangerous object found is reported in the warning window. In the Grounding Alarm Report page the relative item has a tick marker next to it, to identify the dangerous object currently detected. If in the next search cycle the same objects are found again, the alarm window will not be shown. Instead, if in the next searches the objects found before are no longer detected, their relevant item in the Grounding Alarm Report page is cleared (note that in this case, if the same object type is found again later, the Alarm will be shown). The chartplotter shows an icon on the charts that identifies when a Grounding Alarm is detected.
Figure 11.3 - Grounding Alarm
a. Ground Alarm Range : Allows setting the distance of the grounding alarm zone. Available selections are 0.25, 0.5 and 1.0NM. the default selection is 0.25NM. When a depth or a object is found in the scanned zone area a marker is printed in the Grounding Alarm Report Page to identify which dangerous objects have been currently detected.
b. Grounding Alarm Report : Displays a report of dangerous objects found.
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