HDS Zoom fix..........

[Cane Pole]

Well, kinda.

I just received the Lowrance Lake Insight HD map SD I ordered. I put it in my HDS7 and now can zoom to 20 feet with full panel or 2 panel screen views. This "chip" has far more detail than the "built in" Insight maps. I installed the new "chip" in my HDS8 which has factory installed Insight maps. The unit loaded the new Insight map. I can now zoom to 100 feet with shaded relief maps. Before, I could only zoom to .2 miles without loosing the shaded relief imaging.

This picture is a shaded relief view of one of my go to locations. The shaded relief seems to be accurate as far as location goes. I will find out more as time goes by.

So to zoom to 20 foot without pain, you can get the Insight HD maps........

[gabowman]

That's the first time I've seen the shaded areas. Love it.Thumbs Up

[mduncan62]

How much $?

[Cane Pole]

How much $?

I got mine at Cabelas cause I had some discount cards that were about expire....

Amazon.com: Lowrance Lake Insight HD US Inland Waters / Great Lakes on SD card: Sports & Outdoors

[Cane Pole]

Below dam at Sardis....

[mduncan62]

Not too bad. Looks awesome!

[Billbob]

sweet

[jimp]

neat, now a ? for ya CP;

All of the waypoints you have in the 1st pic, can you hit those waypoints dead on or real close when trolling with w/ your HDS only able to zoom in to 100' or do those waypoints mean something different to you?

I LL 99% of the time, and can zoom in to 20' on my HH Garmin gps. I seldom hit the mark (dead on the WP), as the HH beeps when I do. Trying to get a handle on how much zoom the HDS units are capable of, but it seems like you have to upgrade to have the good zoom capability, but its still limited to a point correct? like maybe 100' is the best zoom for the HDS ?

[Cane Pole]

neat, now a ? for ya CP;

All of the waypoints you have in the 1st pic, can you hit those waypoints dead on or real close when trolling with w/ your HDS only able to zoom in to 100' or do those waypoints mean something different to you?

I LL 99% of the time, and can zoom in to 20' on my HH Garmin gps. I seldom hit the mark (dead on the WP), as the HH beeps when I do. Trying to get a handle on how much zoom the HDS units are capable of, but it seems like you have to upgrade to have the good zoom capability, but its still limited to a point correct? like maybe 100' is the best zoom for the HDS ?

With this map, I can zoom to 20ft. With Navionics, I can zoom to 50ft. With Installed Insight you can zoom to 20ft.

20ft zoom is restricted to 2 panels. If you have 3/4 panels, you can zoom to only 50ft and sometimes 100ft depending on your location.

I have NMEA 2000 network and use lcg4000 external antenna. It seems to be accurate, but I don't have much cockpit time with it.

I have 3 Garmins that I refuse to give up. I am a Garmin fan, however I now leave my Garmin at home and am gaining confidence in the lcg4000.

Time will tell.

You can turn the beeps off. ha......I can't hear them anyhow.

[Cane Pole]

No upgrade required. Order units with basemap and get Insight SD. Solves zoom issues.