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12-21-2018, 01:42 PM
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Boat Trip Meter
One thing I miss is my old Garmin GPS126 (pictured below). It was a simple monochrome display that showed Lat/Lon position and had a sort of "trip meter". It was pretty hands-off and stopped rolling with the boat stopped moving. I really liked the unit and provided a nice little backup to the large chartplotter. I have had no luck finding one on eBay without people running the price up too high for what I think such an old unit is worth... maybe it's just me, but these things should be $50 at a marine consignment store. Anyway, is there any other option for a simple unit like this? I mean, I will probably pay more for something new than I would if I just put in a high bid for a 126, but maybe if something new had even more features, it would be cool to have.
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12-21-2018, 01:46 PM
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12-21-2018, 02:02 PM
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I don’t think you can wrong with either of those. We have the GP-32 and love it.
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12-21-2018, 02:17 PM
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the boat we just purchased has a Garmin on the dash, I think the same model 126. If it is, I can send it to you when I redo the dash this winter. It seemed to work for the trip north, but I have no use for it.
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12-21-2018, 02:25 PM
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Surely whatever you use for nav now has a trip meter in the settings?
Failing that your hour meter x boat speed for the day.
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12-21-2018, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom.B
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FWIW, our older circa 2002 unit is a monochrome GP-36 DGPS. It has four dispays, and one of those includes a trip log, voltages, etc. Ours is right at about 10K miles just now...
The screen is actually going toes up, unfortunately; works, but some of the pixels are disappearing.
But our MFD-12 also has both trip log and odometer, so at least we can continue keeping track of total NMs on the boat.
And I'm trying to think of something useful I could put in place of the GP-36, since we have two other fixed GPS sources on board anyway.
-Chris
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12-21-2018, 07:28 PM
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See if you can find a used Furuno RD 30. Great little devices that do just want in your thread title among other things;they are a repeater, so don't act as a backup GPS. Are you sure your main plotter doesn't have an odometer and trip function buried in the menus somewhere? Pretty common feature.
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12-21-2018, 08:24 PM
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You might consider one of the Garmin GPSMAP handhelds. Have one that I use when kayaking, one for when I flew ultralights, and one for cycling. They have mounts, are waterproof, can be powered by 12 VDC external or batteries, and have configurable displays with lots of trip options. Usually a bunch of used ones on Ebay.
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12-21-2018, 11:51 PM
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I've got a Garmin 128 with the same display and love it. I take a photo at each return to the home slip for my running total time and distance.
I think the main difference is that the 128 has an external antenna.
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12-22-2018, 04:42 AM
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I believe both of those Furuno devices have both a tipometer, and an odometer. But just download the operator's manual and check. I'm certain the 33 has it, and expect the 39 does too.
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12-22-2018, 07:20 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by twistedtree
I believe both of those Furuno devices have both a tipometer, and an odometer. But just download the operator's manual and check. I'm certain the 33 has it, and expect the 39 does too.
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I looked at the manuals and didn’t see anything like what I am looking for.
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12-22-2018, 07:24 AM
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I think every MFD I've used in the last 10+ years had some sort of trip odometer function. Generally there's a way to display it right on the screen. This should be a non-issue when it comes to choosing a display.
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12-22-2018, 07:50 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom.B
I looked at the manuals and didn’t see anything like what I am looking for.
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The manual for the GP-33 talks about the trip function starting at page 57.
https://www.furuno.com/files/Manual/...580G3_GP33.pdf
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12-22-2018, 08:55 AM
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Boat Trip Meter
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Originally Posted by Larry M
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Ah haaaaa! That’s it. Thanks! But dang... that’s $600. I will consider it. Never hurts to have a backup I guess. I will check on the 39 and see if it does it too. I would guess it does, I just need look harder at the manual. :-)
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12-22-2018, 09:15 AM
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Boat Trip Meter
I think I found it... not sure if it has. A trip timer, but we are almost to the point of “close enough” and for $300... but it needs an external antenna. Sigh.
Digitaldisplay
The digital display shows digital navigation data. You can select what data to dis- play in one to four cells. The choices of data are odometer distance, trip distance, time, date, position, power source voltage, speed over ground, course over ground, range, bearing, cross-track-error, time-to-go to a destination, estimated time of ar- rival at destination, waypoint and none.
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12-22-2018, 01:36 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom.B
Digitaldisplay
The digital display shows digital navigation data. You can select what data to dis- play in one to four cells. The choices of data are odometer distance, trip distance, time, date, position, power source voltage, speed over ground, course over ground, range, bearing, cross-track-error, time-to-go to a destination, estimated time of ar- rival at destination, waypoint and none.
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On our MFD, the odometer is "since installed" and the trip log is "since the last time it was reset." I've only just started to work with those -- and added them to one of the on-screen data cells -- since our older unit display is beginning to have some "holes" in it...
Remembering to zero out the trip after each boat ride hasn't yet become second nature...
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12-22-2018, 02:00 PM
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What about simply using phone or tablet GPS and a trip meter app?
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12-22-2018, 02:12 PM
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Tom: Maybe you can find a used Furuno GP-32 for a good price. They’ve discontinued but there must be thousands of them out there. External antenna though.
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12-22-2018, 03:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Larry M
Tom: Maybe you can find a used Furuno GP-32 for a good price. They’ve discontinued but there must be thousands of them out there. External antenna though.
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Is that time a trip time or just the time of day? Is there a trip timer on that?
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12-22-2018, 03:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom.B
Is that time a trip time or just the time of day? Is there a trip timer on that?
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The time is when I took the picture. I reset the Trip (NM) every day when I do the long entry. I’m not sure about a trip timer.
Here’s the link to the manual:
https://www.furuno.com/files/Manual/...0J_GP32_37.pdf
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