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AccuMap 12
INSTALLATION AND
OPERATION INSTRUCTIONS
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Copyright © 1996, 1997 Eagle Electronics All rights reserved. AccuMap 12™ is a trademark of Eagle Electronics Eagle™ is a registered trademark of Eagle Electronics IMS SmartMap™ is a trademark of Lowrance Electronics, Inc. WARNING! USE THIS MAPPING UNIT ONLY AS AN AID TO NAVIGATION. A CARE- FUL NAVIGATOR NEVER RELIES ON ONLY ONE METHOD TO OB- TAIN POSITION INFORMATION. Never use this product while operating a vehicle. The background map built into this unit is not intended for navigation and i
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INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 1 INSTALLATION ............................................................................................................. 2 BATTERY INSTALLATION............................................................................................ 3 ANTENNA..................................................................................................................... 4 MAP CARTRID
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SYSTEM SETUP.......................................................................................................... 41 TRACK HOLDING ........................................................................................................ 41 GPS CORRECTIONS .................................................................................................. 42 DATUM .......................................................................................................................... 42 PCF (P
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INTRODUCTION ® Thank you for purchasing an Eagle AccuMap 12™. With its large LCD screen, easy to use menus, and outstanding performance, we think you’ll be happy with this product for many years. The AccuMap 12 can be used for fishing, hiking, canoeing, offshore boat- ing, and just about any other ground-based activity. This product also takes IMS SmartMap™, C-MAP™, and Navionics™ cartridges, which show greater detail of land and hydrographic features. Like most GPS receivers, your AccuMap 12 do
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tions. The AccuMap 12 takes these corrections and applies them to the position and altitude screens, giving you much better accuracy. Even with S/A on, and without a DGPS receiver, your AccuMap 12 gives you out- standing position and navigation information. Please sit down with the unit and this manual and familiarize yourself with them before using this unit in the “real world”. A simulator is built in, which lets you practice with the receiver. INSTALLATION The AccuMap 12 operates from six AA
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BATTERY INSTALLATION ® The AccuMap 12 requires six AA batteries. We recommend DURACELL alkaline batteries, but other brands will work. You can use lithium batteries which will last longer than alkaline batteries (but cost more) or recharge- able ni-cad batteries (won’t last as long as standard alkalines). Recharge- ® ® able alkaline batteries such as RayOVac Renewals will also work . Do not use heavy-duty batteries or any battery other than the ones listed above. Do not mix different types of ba
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IMPORTANT! There are arrows molded into the bottom of the battery cover and battery holder. Make certain the arrows are properly aligned! Otherwise, the bat- tery holder won’t slide all the way into the cover and the battery pack won’t slide onto the unit. Slide the battery pack onto the unit and the AccuMap 12 is ready for use. ANTENNA Your AccuMap 12 has a removable antenna that folds over the display when the unit is not in use. This prevents damage to the display. To open the antenna, simply
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LEI IMS TEXAS NORTH LEI IMS LEI IMS OKLAHOMA EAST TEXAS NORTH LEI IMS OKLAHOMA EAST MAP CARTRIDGE INSTALLATION The AccuMap 12 uses IMS SmartMap™ and WorldMap™, C-Map™, and Navionics™ cartridges, all of which are packaged in a cartridge housing specifically designed for Eagle mapping products. The IMS SmartMap™ cartridges contain digitized data of over 120,000 bodies of water. Nearly all inland waterways-public and private lakes, riv- ers, and streams, plus co
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REMOVING A CARTRIDGE If you have difficulty removing a cartridge, use the back cover as a re- moval tool. Simply press one side of the cover against the ridge on the cartridge and gently push towards the bottom of the unit. Don’t use a corner of the cover - it could damage it. KEYBOARD The keyboard has twelve keys. The arrow keys are tied to most of the features, letting you easily move the mapping cursor, navigate through the menus, make selections from menus, and other tasks. PAGES WPT MENU EX
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OPERATION Turning Power On To turn the AccuMap 12 on, simply press the PWR key. A screen similar to the one at right appears. Press the EXIT key to erase this screen. MENUS Most of the adjustments and features are found on “menus”. Pressing the MENU key lets you view the menus. Different menus items are added or subtracted to the ba- sic list, depending on which mode (map- ping, navigation, or windows) the unit is in. This gives you the features that are spe- cific to the mode you are in, but al
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Once the AccuMap 12 locks on to the satellites and finds your position, it stores the satellite data in its memory. The next time you use the unit, it should take much less time to lock on. To use your AccuMap 12, first take it outside, away from trees and buildings. You need a clear view of the sky. Open the antenna and adjust it so that it is parallel with the ground. Press the PWR key. Read the message on the screen, then press the EXIT key to erase the message. A screen similar to the one at
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Using the down arrow key, highlight the “Ini- tialize GPS Receiver” menu, then press the right arrow key. The screen shown below ap- pears next. This is the GPS initialization screen. The posi- tion, altitude, time, and date the GPS receiver is currently using to find the satellites is shown at the bottom of this screen. Changing these values to your local position and time will speed the position lock. To change the position, highlight the “EDIT LAT/ LON label, then press the right arrow key. A
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key. The unit returns to the GPS SETUP menu with your local latitude and longitude showing in the box at the bottom of the screen. Enter Manually To change the position by manually entering the latitude and longitude, press the MENU key, then highlight the “GPS SETUP” label and press the right arrow key. Now press right ar- row key again while the “EDIT LAT/LON” box is highlighted. The screen shown at right ap- pears. Highlight the “INPUT MANUALLY” label and press the right arrow key. The scree
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IMPORTANT! If the data shown in digital numbers on any screen is flashing, it means that data is invalid. DO NOT RELY ON ANY NUMBERS THAT ARE FLASH- ING! Usually, this happens when the GPS receiver has lost its lock on the satellites. The data that is flashing was the last known when the unit lost its navigational capability. DO NOT NAVIGATE WITH THIS UNIT UNTIL THE DATA STOPS FLASHING! POSITION/NAVIGATION DISPLAYS The AccuMap 12 has navigation, mapping, and windows group modes. These screens we
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Navigation Screens There are two navigation screens. Nav screen number one shows a graphi- cal view of your trip, the other screen shows all navigation details in large digital numbers. Nav Screen #1 This screen is dominated by a compass rose. Your track (direction of travel) is indicated by an arrow pointing down toward the compass rose at the top center of the screen. Track is also shown in the upper right corner of the dis- play under the “TRK” label. In the example screen shown at right, the
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course has nothing to do with your present position, except for your start- ing location.) It’s shown as a dotted line on the NAV 1 display. This is shown as a reminder so that if you deviate from your original course, you can easily return to it. (A “course” is a proposed path over the ground. A “track” is your actual path over ground.) All of the digital boxes on this screen are programmable. See the “Pro- gramming” section for more information. Nav Screen #2 The navigation screen shows naviga
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The smaller arrows pointing down on each side show the CDI’s range. The default is 1/10 mile. The small vertical bar shows the distance off course and represents the course line. If the bar moves to the right, then you are to the left of the desired course line, and vice-versa. The CDI indicator shown above shows that we are about .02 miles to the left of the desired course. (With the CDI range of .10 miles, each vertical dotted line represents .02 mile.) You can adjust the CDI’s range through t
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MAP 1 MAP 2 MAP 3 To view the other mapping screens, press the PAGES key. Press the up or down arrow key to highlight the "MAP 1" label. Now press the right or left arrow key to select a different mapping screen. Press the EXIT key to erase the pages menu. Maps 2 and 3 (as shown above) have navigation data displayed using digital numbers. The digital displays on map 3 can be rearranged or changed to other displays. See the “Reprogram Boxes” section for more informa- tion. As you move, the map sl
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The latitude/longitude of the cursor shows in the box at the top of the screen whenever the cursor is activated. CURSOR OFF CURSOR ON The map cursor is also used to place and erase icons and waypoints. AUTOZOOM Generally, when you travel using a mapping receiver like the AccuMap 12, you spend some amount of time zooming in and out, looking at detail or the whole route between the start and destination. The AccuMap 12 has an autozoom feature that eliminates much of the button pushing that competi
