It's meant to give Panbo readers a free and easy way to buy and sell used marine electronics. And also to provide small manufacturers, apps developers, installers, distributors, etc. long-term exposure to Panbo readers at a very reasonable cost.

But in fact all ads are now free, and extra features are marked way down, while we beta test the site and gather an audience. Please visit the section; please put up a free ad for your product, service, or used electronics; and please give us feedback of any variety. Thanks!

I'd appreciate help in causing Furuno to appreciate that this is critically important since denial of such functionality genuinely jeopardizes their customers safety. Choosing to render the radar useless if no MFD is functionally present is consistent with the industries long standing fear of fear of losing chartplotter revenues once open standards define radar interfaces. It's hard to understand why Furuno would impose such a penalty on PCs running their own MaxSea TZ software, however. This is not technically difficult nor expensive but it may be indicative of whether Furuno is so intent on maximizing ROI that they are willing to undermine the philosophical purpose of NavNet i.e. safe/effective navigation. Could it be?

Thanks!

Ed Cox
Co-Chairman

Thank you for that very instructive and educational cruise on Friday from Camden to WBS. It was a day to remember and a pleasure to meet you.
Best wishes
Pearse Morris

Thanks,
-p

Yes, it's me again.

I am looking at increasing the house-battery capacity on the old girl. Currently she is equipped with a pair of tired 12V batteries that will be removed this spring. In other terms, I will be starting will a clean slate.

The problem I have is placement, not that it is missing; there is a lot of it. It is more a question of trying to keep all the house batteries in one bank of four under one panel or creating 2 banks of two managed by two panels.

Any suggestions?

Andre

My question is this: I assume that when a micro/mid powertap tee is installed (e.g. Maretron's CF-SPWR05-CF) then one side of the network can be isolated from the other side (power wise). This sounds great because one can split the network in two: the at-anchor segment running the essentials (e.g. high bilge sensor) and the underway segment running the remaining components (e.g. engine temperature). This would be very useful since after measuring my desired NMEA network with N2K builder I discovered that it could easily consume over 100 watts - wow that's 9 Ah.

The problem I see is that practically speaking this entails substantially more cable and routing headaches in order to separate the at-anchor from the underway devices, which in turn adds move cabling and thus Ah. This is where, I assume, that network bridges come into play (e.g. BEP Marine's CZONE).

If all of the above is correct then why are these network bridges late arrivals and hard to find. One would think they would be a standard and off-the-shelf device part of say Maretron's offering.

Again, please forgive the newbie and many thanks to all that have responded to past questions.

The unit will be used in SE Louisiana "inside waters" for fishing purposes. Of particular interest are the satellite overlays that should be particularly useful to me in areas of the Mississippi Delta where coastal erosion has made CG nav charts less than useful.

I have two concerns:

1. I have been told that the Platinum satellite overlays cause the Lowarnce system to slow to the point of being problematic for realtime navigation purposes. One dealer told me the system computer processors do not have sufficient speed to handle the Platinum optional products.

2. Has anyone been able to use the Platinum satellite overlays in the Mississippi Delta and have they been useful for navigating through areas where coastal erosion has been particularly problematic?

3. If the Lowrance precessing speeds are an issue, does anyone have experience using the Hummingbird 1198c si Combo with similar mapping software?

Thanks guys and gals.

Finally, something new. There's a neat, new app released today called Currents. It uses the NOAA CO-OPS current data to give really nice current flow overlays on Google maps - about the perfect thing for coastal cruising.

This is the first Android app that does something no iPhone app does (to my knowledge). It's about time...

Don't get me wrong - I own 2 iPhones and an iPad and love them. But having competition and another marketplace for apps will spark creativity and competition and will make it all better for everyone.

More info here:
http://yoyana.com/

When I add my URL to my profile it says "invalid URL". Its not???

When I add a comment I press submit it goes to a screen that says "Comment Submission Error
Your comment submission failed for the following reasons: Invalid request"

Any suggestions?

I am using the Chrome browser.

Thanks

Dean

Neither the Blog Search nor the Forum Search work for me.

On the blog home page the blog search works but on the forum page from either search box I get:

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Thought you should know....

But what else would it be good for them to know? What else should the survey include? Should it branch into the area of customer satisfaction and brand attributes like JD Power? For example, what good is it to tell the mfg we make our purchase decision based on reliability if they don't know how we perceive their reliability?

Inquiring minds want to know, what topics should be added to the survey?