Garmin GPSMAP 740 - Alarms

GPSMAP 700 Series Owner’s Manual 51
Device Conguration
Setting the Fuel Capacity of Your Boat
1. From the Home screen, select  > > .
2. Enter the combined fuel capacity of all the engines on your boat.
3. Select .
Alarms
By default, all alarms are turned off, except the destination and weather alarms. The chartplotter must be on for
the alarms to work.
 See the GPSMAP 700 Series XM WX Satellite Weather
®
and XM Satellite Radio Supplement (North
America only) for information concerning weather alarms.
Navigation Alarms
Setting an Arrival Alarm
You can set an alarm to sound when you are within a specied distance or time from a turn or a destination
waypoint.
1. From the Home screen, select  >  >> .
2. Complete an action:
• Select , and indicate whether you want arrival alarms to sound only when nearing , or
when nearing .
• Select , and indicate whether the arrival alarm triggers based on  to arrival or based on
 to arrival.
• Select  (if Activation is set to ) or  (if Activation is set to
) to indicate how long before arrival (in minutes) or how far before arrival (in units of
distance) the alarm should sound. Enter the time or distance, and select .
Setting the Anchor Drag Alarm
You can set an alarm to sound when you exceed a specied drift distance while anchored.
1. From the Home screen, select  > >> >.
2. Enter the drift distance that triggers the alarm.
3. Select .
Setting the Off Course Alarm
You can set an alarm to sound when you are off course by a specied distance.
1. From the Home screen, select  >  > > > .
2. Enter the off-course distance that triggers the alarm.
3. Select .
System Alarms
Setting the Clock Alarm
You can set an alarm using the system (GPS) clock.
1. From the Home screen, select  >  > > > .
2. Enter the time that triggers the alarm.
3. Select .
Setting the Unit Voltage Alarm
You can set an alarm to sound when the battery reaches a specied low voltage.
1. From the Home screen, select  >  > >  >.
2. Enter the voltage that triggers the alarm.
3. Select .