Posted By: 361V
Humminbird 1197c/Navionics Overloaded?? - 10/23/16 02:04 PM
I have a Humminbird 1197c on the console of my boat. I have run a Navionics Hotmaps Platinum South chip in as long as I've had the boat. It's an older chip. Maybe 6-7 years old. Probably the 1st Platinum chip. I also leave a Boatlanes chip in the graph for when I'm @ Fork. The other day I put a brand new Hotmaps Platinum South chip in place of the older Platinum chip and my graph went haywire on the start up. It would just blink on and off but never load up or start up. Couldn't even shut it down from the unit. Had to unplug it to power down but when turned back on the same problem would arise. Finally I took out the Boatlanes chip and the unit started up and ran fine. For a "technologically challenged" fisherman is there simply too much data in the new Platinum chip for the unit to have both chips "running"? Never was a problem w/old chip. Not a problem to leave the boatlanes out...until I go to Fork and want both. Thanks, 361v.