We have a handheld garmin 78sc gps and we are having the charter company install a raymarine es75 chartplotter on the boat. Can I get a chip with the caribbean charts on it that will work in both of them?
Chartplotter/handheld gps
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If you go with a Garmin 741, 741XS or 7607 the same chips will work in both. If you go Raymarine it won't...
I am the last one to question your authority, Maine, but I don't think the card for Garmin 78sc would work in any Garmin chart-plotter (741, or 7607).
If I recall correctly, GPSMAP 78 uses MicroSD cards and a different format maps than the 741 and similar (and they use the SD card).
However, no question, there is no map compatibility between Garmin and Raymarine systems.
If I recall correctly, GPSMAP 78 uses MicroSD cards and a different format maps than the 741 and similar (and they use the SD card).
However, no question, there is no map compatibility between Garmin and Raymarine systems.
As a factory authorized Garmin dealer/reseller/installer I try pretty hard to be as accurate as I can be, and my post was indeed accurate.
The Garmin 741 & 7607 series, all the way up to the $5500.00 Garmin 7616, will actually accept two microSD™ cards (two slots). This is same microSD card the 78sc takes. Even the old Garmin full size SD card models, such as the 740, can take an SD to microSD adapter and it works perfectly. I do all my customers software updates using a microSD card and if I need to update an older full size SD card plotter I use the microSd to SD adapter.
I have plenty of customers out there who can swap the cards between their Garmin hand held units and their Garmin fixed plotters. Older units going back to the GPS MAP 3200 series used Garmin proprietary cards. All the newer stuff went to SD or now microSD..
Garmin keeps their charts proprietary so I don't think there is a chip that will work with the handheld Garmin and the Raymarine. Navionics has a SonarChart for Garmin chip that works on the older plotter units (a software update on newer units prevents Navionics maps from working), but I don't think it would be compatible with the handheld. If you're set on the Raymarine unit and you get one with wifi, you can plotter sync to a tablet up on deck instead of the handheld Garmin...just a thought!
Installed a Garmin 741 this spring and still find myself using Transas iSailor on my iPhone 6 due to better maps, overall usability and ease of obtaining the information I'm looking for. Wish it wasn't the case.
Thanks everyone for your replies. I did not think it would work but I was hoping it would work so I would not have to buy two chips. The reason we went with raymarine was I wanted all of the electronics to be the same brand.