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Recent reviews for this item: guy, April 4, 2012 I'm pretty happy with this unit. It is intuitive and simple
to use, but I should qualify this: I have used other
Lowrance units before.
Yes the micro SD card is inside the SD card - Lowrance
didn't invent that concept.
Transducer came with plenty of cable to reach the transom on
my 17.5' boat.
Easily removed.
Doesn't come with the Lowrance cable to connect to your
radio, but I see that GPS city stocks these. Would have
been nice to know so it could have been shipped as a single
order. I guess I'm going to have to get around to that.
It appears that every time you power up the unit you have to
select the more detailed Gold chart on the micro SD, since
the generic one loads by default. Is there a way around this? Ross, March 6, 2012 Hello to all my readers i have chosen to give a honest
opinion from my exsperiance, if Lowrance would like to send
my something IE a cover for my new purchase or a shirt that
would be a nice touch. (2XL) if you where wondering.
very easy install
poor manual (good thing for you tube)
GPSCITY was great to deal with Dave, February 7, 2012 The instruction manual is pretty useless. Doesn't go into
any detail about all the options, and there are many.
I just spent about 4 hours sitting in my driveway going over
every last option this thing has and tweaking it to my
liking. It's not that it's hard to operate but if you have a
specific question about something you are SOL.
Overall it seems to be a pretty decent unit. I fish
exclusively in shore waters of the Big Bend area of Florida
so the sonar options aren't as important as the
chartplotter. Overall it does what it's supposed to do but
you have to learn how to do it because the instruction
manual isn't much help. Flyguy47, November 28, 2011 I bought this to use in the 10,000 Islands area of SW
Florida. I found that any feature, water or land, smaller
than about 200 - 300 feet in width is not there. Last week
I navigated bodies of water between islands that appeared
on the screen as solid land and encountered islands that
appeared on ths screen as water. The last GPS I had, a
Lowrance 332-C with a 16XG Gold Navionics chip, had far
better detail. I think they are trying to cram too much
information on too small a chip.
This unit also takes a rather long time to find its
location. The first time I turned it on, it took 15
minutes to find itself at my home in Tampa, FL
