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Jayde28

44 posts

Jayde28

WA, 44 posts

10 Dec 2016 4:11pm

Hi everybody. Just wondering if anyone else has had issues with their cmap card (gme g142c) a brief history, two years ago I replaced the card with a new one thinking I had fixed the problem, two years on I have the same problem. (Plotter freezes up and only works on a basic setting without the card) Do I replace the card or look at a new chartplotter/ system?
Thanks in advance for any feedback

brianlara3

NSW

185 posts

brianlara3

NSW, 185 posts

11 Dec 2016 5:45am

For 4 years I had the same 142c plotter with Cmap. Occasionally mine did similar to yours. I ramg GME who are particularly helpful, always.
But it meant returning the thing to them for maybe a forthight leaving a hole in the bulkhead and no plotter.
But Whitworths had a 7" Simrad with a simple Navionics card for $1100 so I dumped the gme.
If you can be without the plotter just send it to GME because there's nothing their techs can't fix. They're in the Baulkham Hills (nsw) neck of the woods.
GME have been around, same staff for ....?? 40 years. If you like the machine, and why not, then get it repaired by the people here who made it, in OZ!

Datawiz

VIC

605 posts

Datawiz

VIC, 605 posts

11 Dec 2016 8:11am

Jayde28 said..
Hi everybody. Just wondering if anyone else has had issues with their cmap card (gme g142c) a brief history, two years ago I replaced the card with a new one thinking I had fixed the problem, two years on I have the same problem. (Plotter freezes up and only works on a basic setting without the card) Do I replace the card or look at a new chartplotter/ system?
Thanks in advance for any feedback

Sounds like the plotter is having trouble reading the card....maybe because of its characteristics (eg speed, access time, different format, etc).
Often this sort of problem is a software bug which is readily fixed with a software upgrade.
I've no doubt GME are familiar with this problem and can readily fix it for you - so I'd get onto them.
regards,
allan

Jayde28

44 posts

Jayde28

WA, 44 posts

11 Dec 2016 6:41am

Thanks. I'll see if I can get it sorted in the new year refit.

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