Magellan 500 - Manual (Page 111)

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Setting Alarms & Beeper
In Alarms & Beeper you can set how the beeper is used as well as turning various alarms on
and off.
Alarms that you can set:
• Anchor - When you set the anchor alarm on, the eXplorist will
alert you when it has moved a distance you have selected. This
could be used when you have anchored your boat and need to
be alerted if it has drifted from it’s anchor point.
• Arrival - The arrival alarm alerts you when you have arrived to
the destination of each leg in your route or to a GOTO
destination. You will need to set the distance that you want to
be alerted. (Arrival alarms also use the speed you are traveling
as a minor factor in computing when to provide the alarm. If
you have set the Arrival alarm to 250 feet and are traveling at
30 mph, the alarm will sound slighting before the 250 foot mark.)
• Off Course - When a route is active, the eXplorist computes when you have moved left or
right of the plotted route. You can set a distance, left or right of the plotted route, that
when you exceed this distance you will be alerted by an alarm.
• GPS Fix - The GPS fix alarm will display when you have lost your GPS fix for more than
20 seconds.
• Proximity Alarm - The proximity alarm is very similar to the arrival alarm except that it
factors in speed at a higher level than the arrival alarm. The proximity alarm has two
alerts. First, a short set of beeps when you are nearing the proximity alarm distance
selected and second, a visual proximity alert when you are at the distance selected.
At the bottom of the display is a field that will display information about all alarms that have
been triggered since the eXplorist was last turned on.
Note: When an alarm is displayed, press ESC to clear the alarm from the screen.