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- Page 1 Explorer 557/567 Chartplotter Installation and Operation Manual www.northstarnav.com...
- Page 2 Documentation will be the official version of the observing safe boating practices. Documentation. BRUNSWICK NEW TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND ITS This manual represents the Explorer 557/567 SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ALL as at the time of printing. Brunswick New LIABILITY FOR ANY USE OF THIS PRODUCT IN A Technologies Inc.
- Page 3 Important The choice, location, angle and installation of the instrument & GPS antenna are critical to performance of the system as intended. Follow instructions in this manual carefully. If in doubt, consult your Northstar dealer. Ensure that any holes cut are in a safe position and will not weaken the boat’s structure. If in doubt, consult a qualifi...
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
7-1 Satellite window ..............31 8 Gauges window ........................... 31 Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... - Page 5 15-14 Setup > Simulate ............. . 61 Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
- Page 6 16-5 Installation: GPS antenna ............66 16-6 Installation: Northstar petrol/gasoline sensors ....... . .66 16-7 Installation: SmartCraft™...
- Page 7 2-8-3 Compass at top of main displays 2-8-4 Dedicated data window Fuel Fuel computer, petrol/gasoline engine Fuel sensors Fuel computer, SmartCraft™ engines SmartCraft™ What to do when you add or remove fuel 10-3 Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
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Page 8: Introduction
SmartCraft™ fuel sensors to the unit. For more information on this instrument be installed and set up. and other Northstar products, go to our website, SmartCraft™ engine functions require a www.northstarnav.com. SmartCraft™ system to be installed. For information on using SmartCraft™, see the... -
Page 9: Removing And Replacing The Display Unit
Match the connector’s color to the socket display for best viewing, then hand tighten color. the knob on the mounting bracket. Remove Insert each connector and turn the locking the dust cover. collar clockwise until it is finger tight. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 10: Basic Operation
Press means to push the key for less than a second. Hold means to hold the key down. The internal beeper beeps when a key is pressed (to disable or enable the beep, see section 15-1). Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 11: Using The Menus
, the 557/567 stays on when you turn the boat’s ignition switch off. You can now turn the 557/567 off manually. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 12: Backlight And Night Mode
The 557/567 has user settable alarms plus an or lights operate. alarm for loss of GPS fix (see section 15-8). Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 13: Simulate Mode
Other windows are available from the More… sub menu. Note: The windows available depend on the optional sensors and instruments that are installed (see section 1-1). Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... - Page 14 Note: The windows below the menu divider can only be shown full screen without a data header. (see section 2-8-3). Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
- Page 15 Press the active window. twice to change the active window. Chart is active Red border Gauges is active Red border Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
- Page 16 557/567 displays the favorites list. Select where in the list to add the new favorite. If you select an existing favorite display then the new favorite will replace the existing favorite in the list. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
- Page 17 Press Tip: The data header will change when you select another display. To set a data header that you can recall later, set the header as part of a favorites display (see below). Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
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Page 18: Navigation: Chart
(see section 5-2-1). If the arrival radius alarm is enabled, then an alarm will sound to show that the boat has reached the destination (see section 15-8). Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... - Page 19 The 557/567 asks for the direction to traverse the route. Select Forward (the order the route was created) or Reverse. The 557/567 displays a chart with the route marked and starts navigating from the start of the route. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
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Page 20: Chart Window
Distance and bearing of cursor from boat Land The cursor (see section 3-2-1) A typical waypoint (see section 5) Note: To change the types of information displayed on the chart (see section 15-2) Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... - Page 21 36° 29.841’ N or S Latitude 175° 09.012’ E or W Longitude Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
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Page 22: Distance And Bearing Calculator
(COG), speed and a specified time. To turn Projected course on and off and to set the time, see section 15-2. A Projected position Boat’s projected course Boat position Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 23: Tracks And Tracking
The track lengths are in the current distance units, for example nm. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 24: Navigation: Highway Window
A position. Note: The other choices for Waypoints are Hide A color for the waypoint symbol and name all and Show all (see section 15-2). on the chart. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 25: Waypoints Window
A new waypoint, with a default name and data, is created at the boat position. Change the waypoint data if necessary (see section 5-2-7). Select Save. Note: Waypoints can also be created when a route is created (see section 6-2-1). Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... - Page 26 Distance: In order of distance from the route can be deleted. boat. An arrow at at the top of a column indicates how the waypoints are sorted. 5-2-9 Navigating to a waypoint See section 3-1-2. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
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Page 27: Navigation: Routes
To go to the routes window, press , select More , then select Routes. If there are more routes than will fit on the display, press to scroll up or down a page at a time. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 28: Managing Routes
Change the name if necessary. vi Press to complete the route iii Press Menu options while creating a route: To add a waypoint to the route Press and select Add. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... - Page 29 Press select Edit. The selected route is displayed: the route name and a list of the waypoints. Edit the route as described in section 6-2-1 B, starting at step 3. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
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Page 30: Satellites
The accuracy of the corrected GPS position is typically better than 2 to 5 m (6 to 16 ft). Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 31: Satellite Window
Select the layout to change (see above). Press and select Gauge setup. Highlight the gauge to change. Press and select the data to display in the gauge. Repeat the above step to change other gauges. Press Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 32: Data Window
Select a data item that is available on your system or select None to leave the field empty. Repeat the above step to set the other data fields. Press Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 33: Fuel Functions And Display
(see section 10-4), a red bar shows the level at which the alarm will trigger. If there are two tanks, the left bar shows the port tank, the right bar shows the starboard tank. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 34: When You Add Or Remove Fuel
On a multi-tank boat, select the tank that you are removing fuel from. Write down the value of Remaining for the tank; this is the amount of fuel originally in the tank. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 35: Low Fuel Alarm
A paddlewheel Select Paddlewheel or Pitot. sensor is more accurate than a pitot sensor at Tip: You can select a different speed sensor low speeds. during a trip. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... - Page 36 If the boat travels for one hour, uses 3 gallons of fuel and has 50 gallons of fuel left: Speed Economy Range Using water speed: 10 knots 10 nm 3.3 nm / gal 165 nm Using ground speed: 14 knots 14 nm 4.7 nm / gal 235 nm Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
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Page 37: Fuel Consumption Curves
RPM. Now, do not change the engine speed. Wait for about 60 seconds for the boat to stabilise, then press . Wait while the fuel computer records the data. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... - Page 38 (see sections 10-5-1 and 10-5). better than when you recorded the curve. If the blue curve has a dip, then running the boat at this RPM will give the best speed for the least fuel consumption. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
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Page 39: Calibration
Repeat for the other engines. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 40: Tides Window
M Height of cursor on the tide chart The tides window requires the local time N Moon phase for moon at the current offset to be set to work correctly (see section time on the chosen date 15-12) Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 41: User Card Window
Select Waypts, Routes or Tracks. existing waypoints. For Tracks, select the track number to save. The new file is created. Change the name if required. The new file appears in the file list. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 42: Ais
To enable AIS from the system menu check the when connected to an AIS receiver. Available AIS AIS box. (see section 15-1) vessels transmitting in the local area are show on the chart when this feature is enabled. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 43: Viewing Ais Vessels
AIS vessel for at least two dangerous vessel alarm) seconds and press A dangerous vessel is indicated on the chart by a red circle around the icon. TCPA 15 min CPA 0.5 nm Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 44: Ais Windows
Safety msgs (rx) list will store up Instrument switches to chart window, with to 10 messages. The oldest message is replaced the selected vessel position in the middle. when the list is full. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 45: Dsc/Buddy Track Windows
Distress: The position is the distress waypoint, Buddy track: The position is where the boat which is where the boat was when it sent the was when your radio last polled the boat. distress message. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 46: Using The Windows
Delete any boat waypoint manually (see section 5-2-5). Buddy track boats automatically disappear from the Buddy track window when your DSC radio can not pick up their signal. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 47: Setting Up The 557/567
The Setup menu options are explained in the following sections. Section 2-1 describes how to set or change data in the setup menus. The setup data available will depend on the optional sensors and instruments installed. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... - Page 48 Track Favorites (see 15-3) (see 15-4) (see 15-5) (see 15-13) Logs Alarms Units (see 15-6) (see 15-7) (see 15-8) (see 15-9) Comms Calibrate Time Simulate (see 15-10) (see 15-11) (see 15-12) (see 15-14) Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
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Page 49: Setup > System
No appropriate Northstar DSC VHF radio is fitted. Disable Buddy track. • The versions and dates. An appropriate Northstar DSC VHF radio is • The world chart version. fitted. Enable Buddy track. • Any card fitted. See section 14. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 50: Setup > Chart
When you change to a chart with a different direction needs to change to make the chart datum, change the 557/567 map datum redraw. again. Tip: If the chart redraws too frequently, increase the course deviation setting. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... - Page 51 Use map shift with caution: shift. incorrect application will cause incorrect boat positions. Press and select Clear. Press Some charts have consistent position errors. To correct this, apply a map shift. After a map shift: Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
- Page 52 Land submenu Land features Displays land features, for example regions, rivers, roads, railways, airports. Land elevation Displays land contours, shaded like depths (requires an NT Max card) Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
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Page 53: Setup > Gps
GPS receiver (see section 7). Restart the GPS if the receiver has not been used for some time and is taking a long time to get a GPS fix. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 54: Setup > Fuel
For the selected engine, you can enter: fuel dispenser’s reading. Beware of air pockets, especially in underfloor tanks. Fuel consumption curve See section 10-6. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 55: Setup > Track
The data in the track selected for Record (see Display above) is deleted. Off: No track is shown on the chart. 1 to 5 (select a track number): The selected track is shown on the chart. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 56: Setup > Ais
This option resets the total distance to zero. Reset engine hours Use this option to reset the engine hours to zero. This can be useful after an engine service or to count the engine hours between service intervals. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 57: Setup > Alarms
Battery voltage is less than the alarm trigger value Low fuel remaining equals the alarm trigger value; on a multi- Low fuel tank boat you can set separate alarms for each tank (see section 10-4) Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 58: Setup > Units
557/567 to other Northstar instruments. Select this if the instruments are connected using NavBus. NavBus Group Use this when a group of Northstar instruments NMEA out are connected together using NavBus, to specify NMEA is generally used with third party a group of instruments for backlighting, if instruments (see section 16-10). -
Page 59: Setup > Calibrate
The range is 1 Calibrating speed: to 30 seconds or Off (0). Travel at a constant, known speed. In the Calibrate menu, select Speed. Press to change the displayed speed to the true value. Press Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 60: Setup > Time
MM/dd/yy. Local offset The difference between local time and UTC (GMT). Change local offset when daylight saving time starts and ends. The range is 0 to ± 13 hours, in 30 minute steps. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 61: Setup > Favorites
2 Demo Simulates a boat moving along a route and automatically displays different 557/567 functions. The options required for Demo are: Speed: The simulated boat speed to use. Route: The route to follow. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 62: Installation
C-MAP™ user cards (3 V) for storing data. (The older 5 volt cards are not supported) • Northstar carry bag. • Northstar NavBus junction boxes simplify wiring, particularly if several instruments are connected. For more information, see the NavBus Installation Manual. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... - Page 63 Brown Not used White NMEA out Blue NavBus- Power in, +10.5 to +30.5 V DC Orange NavBus+ Yellow Auto power in Green External alarm out, 30 V DC 200 mA maximum. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
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Page 64: Installation: The Display Unit
Screw the four studs into the brass inserts in knob on the mounting bracket. the back of the display unit. Sit the display unit in place and fit the washers and nuts to the studs. Mounting Knob bracket Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 65: Installation: Power/Data Cable
If the current is more than 200 mA, fit a relay. Black Black Connect the power/data cable to the black Green display unit connector; turn the collar to External beepers or lock the connector. lights Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 66: Installation: Gps Antenna
SmartCraft™ engines have fuel flow sensors, therefore Northstar fuel sensors are not White required as well. • Wire for auto power (see section 16-4). Fuel sensor cable During setup enter fuel setup data (see section 15-4) Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 67: Installation: Smartcraft
Wire the unit for auto power (see section 16-4). During setup Enter fuel setup data (see section 15-4) Set NavBus and SmartCraft™ to (see section 15-1) Enter SmartCraft™ setup data (see the SmartCraft™ Gateways Installation and Operation Manual) Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 68: Installation: Other Navbus Instruments
16-8-1 Installation: Northstar VHF radio other instruments in the same group. If the backlight is changed in an instrument Fit and set up the optional Northstar VHF in group 0 then no other instruments are radio (with NavBus functionality) following the affected. -
Page 69: Installation: Other Nmea Instruments
Select the language to use. Change the data if necessary (see section 2-1) iii When the setup data is correct, press This data can be changed later (see section 15). Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 70: Appendix A - Specifications
35.2 mm ( 1.4 ") 33.1 mm ( 1.3 ") 164.0 mm ( 6.5 ") 19.5 mm ( 0.8 ") 32.0 mm ( 1.3 ") 88.5 mm ( 3.5 ") 88.5 mm ( 3.5 ") Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 71: Appendix B - Troubleshooting
Repairs to the product may only be carried out without having to send the display unit back to by a service centre approved by Northstar. If the the manufacturer for repair. Please follow this product must be sent into a service centre for... -
Page 72: General Problems
(see section 15-12). positions of up to 300 m (1000 ft). Local time offset is wrong (see section 15-11). The Local Time Offset must be changed when daylight saving time starts or ends. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 73: Fuel Consumption Problems
You added or removed fuel but did not tell the 557/567 (see section 10-3). The fuel tank may not refill to the same capacity each time due to air pockets. This is a particular problem with underfloor tanks. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... -
Page 74: Appendix C - Glossary And Navigation Data
Leg - The straight segments of a route between 557/567 chart, for example a fishing spot or a waypoints. A route with four waypoints has three point on a route (see section 5). legs. Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual... - Page 75 Velocity Made Good: The speed at which the boat is approaching the destination. Destination Destination Plotted DTG (distance) course (distance) VMG (speed) SOG (speed) Boat position CDI scale CDI scale (distance) (distance) Plotted course Boat position Start Start Northstar Explorer 557/567 Installation and Operation Manual...
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