GPS/WAAS PLOTTER GP-25 and GP-27 New Product Information

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1 Attention: Asian Furuno Distributors/subsidiaries Date: December 03, 2013 SB No: FSB Number of Pages: 11 GPS/WAAS PLOTTER GP-25 and GP-27 New Product Information Contents 1. What is the GP-25/ Specifications 3 3. Chart 4 4. Comparison among FURUNO plotter 5 5. Built in internal GPS 6 6. Touch screen 7 7. Operation 8 1/11

2 1. What is the GP-25/27? The GP-25 and GP-27 are small color touch screen chart plotters designed for Asian market to meet local demands, such as local language, reasonable price, detailed chart, etc. Touch screen operation is a trend in our life and gives you an intuitive operation. The main target is customers who use our GP-32. As you know, the GP-32 has had a remarkable success in Asian market for a long time, but, today, a chart on a plotter must be essential since it will give additional information such as depth contour, chart object like light house, etc. This information will help vessel operation. Following shows you sizes of GP-25 and GP-27. As you can see, the sizes are very small and thin, which make it easy to take it home from the vessel. 2/11

3 2. Specifications Specifications General GP-25 GP-27 LCD size 5 Wide 7 Wide Resolution 800 x 480 (WVGA) Brilliance 500 cd Touch Screen Available (Single touch operation) Capability Language Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, English, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese Chart C-MAP MAX (Standard supply) GPS Antenna Built in Waterproofing IP56 Environment -15 to +55 Power VDC Waypoints 30,000 Ship's track 30,000 Routes 200 3/11

4 3. Chart Available chart areas are as follows; Ref. No. Chart Code Coverage MW12 M-AS-M001 GULF OF THAILAND TO YELLOW SEA MW15 M-IN-M001 SINGAPORE TO SOUTH CHINA SEA MW16 M-IN-M002 INDIAN OCEAN MW24 M-AU-M002 PAPUA NEW GUINEA For more details, please visit following Jeppesen s website; 4/11

5 4. Comparison among FURUNO plotters As you can see table below, memory capacity of waypoints and track of GP-25/27 is same as the GP-1670 series, which is higher-grade model. When it is compared with the GP-32, the GP-25/27 has 30 times greater capacity of waypoints and tracks. GP-32 GP-25 GP-27 GP-1670 GP-1870 LCD 4.5" 5" 7" x x x x x 480 Touch Screen Touch Screen Waypoints ,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 Tracks 1,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 Routes ,000 1,000 Color Mono Color Color Color Color Chart C-MAP MAX C-MAP MAX C-MAP 4D C-MAP 4D N/A Standard Standard Local supply Local supply 5/11

6 5. Built in Internal GPS Built-in GPS/WAAS antenna gives easy and flexible installation. The GP-25/27 has a built-in internal GPS antenna at upper side of them. It is recommended to install the GP-25/27 near window with internal GPS antenna in a direction toward outside of the window for ease of receiving GPS signal We have tested the internal GPS antenna in our test boat, Pegasus and a fishing vessel in Vietnam. Picture 1 shows Pegasus. In Pegasus, the GP-25/27 was installed on front of upper deck, console and salon to confirm if internal GPS worked properly though it took 5 minutes to detect satellites. Picture 1; Pegasus Front of upper deck Upper deck console Salon Picture 2 was taken on a wooden fishing vessel with iron roof in Vietnam. It took about 7-8 minutes to detect GPS signal, but finally the GP-25 or GP-27 could work without using external GPS antenna GPA-017. As you can see from the picture 2, the internal GPS antenna is pointing in a direction toward outside of the window which helped receiving GPS signal even under the iron roof. When satellite signal is not received due to installation condition, optional GPS antenna unit GPA-017 can be used. Picture 2: Vietnamese fishing vessel 6/11

7 6. Touch screen The GP-25 and GP-27 employs Pressure sensitive panel so that they can work with duty/wet finger. This is totally different from the ones on tablet PC or smart device. Pressure sensitive panel does not react to static electricity but to press down onto the outer surface, such as a fingertip with/without gloves or Stylus pen, as per the picture below. For your information, the capacitance touch panels for tablet PC or smart device react to a static electricity between panel and finger. This panel is adopted on the TZT. 7/11

8 7. Operation 8/11

9 9/ Ashihara-cho, Nisinomiya, , Japan

10 10/ Ashihara-cho, Nisinomiya, , Japan

11 11/ Ashihara-cho, Nisinomiya, , Japan