Northstar 8000i 12" Touch-Screen Network Navigation System with GPS Antenna

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What if you were told there was a large-screen marine display with touch-screen control, blazing redraw rates, 3D bathymetrics, full networking capabilities, media center compatibility and customizable instrumentation, and that it was all plug-and-play? What if you were told these 12" and 15" screens featured brilliant graphics, and that you could fit up to 20 of them on a single boat? What if you put your tongue back in your mouth and continued reading about the Northstar 8000i at Turtle Marine?

The Northstar 8000i is the ultimate integrated marine electronics system. It encompasses navigation, multimedia entertainment and instrumentation. It has a touch screen display for ease of use. It delivers awesome performance.

Northstar 8000i is modular, expandable and flexible. Whatever type of boat you have, and however you use it, 8000i is customizable to your needs.

Whether you want to plot your course, track a target on the radar, watch a movie, or listen to your favorite music, 8000i is there for you.

Features:

Ultimate Integration: The most flexible, highly integrated networked system available

• Touch Screen: This bold and revolutionary feature provides unparalleled ease of use
• Charting: C-Map's amazing new MAX PRO cartography, with blindingly fast redraw time and 3D bathymetric presentation
• Radar: NEW High Performance Networked Radar with brand new digital radar processing technology
• Sounder: 1kW Networked, Digital Sounder
• Instrumentation: Display customizable instrument panels with data from GPS, Northstar Instruments or NMEA
• Full Entertainment: DVD, video, CD and Digital Music player, on any size screen you want

Northstar 8000i: Whatever You Want it to Be: It's a navigation system, a Chartplotter, Radar or Fishfinder. Or all of them.

It's an Entertainment Center: DVD player, CD Player and Digital Music Jukebox

It's an Information System: Cameras, Instrumentation, Fuel Management. Display and control what you want. Where you want it. Watch a DVD on the flybridge. Keep an eye on the radar from your cabin. Plan your next passage on a 42-inch plasma screen in your salon. You choose - it's your boat.

Radar
The high performance digital radar system offers MARPA as well as radar/chart overlay*. Networked radar means that any display can access the radar.

Fishfinder
Northstar's latest 1kW digital, networked sounder technology delivers the performance and features you expect from Northstar.

Instrumentation
Display customizable instrument panels using data from any of the 8000i inputs: Northstar instruments, NMEA or the Northstar Fuel transducer.

If you live to fish
Your boat is a fishing machine. You want the basics, but you want them done properly. A chartplotter to get you to where the fish should be, and a fishfinder to make sure they're still there. Northstar 8000i is there for you.

If you take your cruising seriously
Don't make do with a navigation system that is second best, and don't leave the comforts of home behind. .

Northstar will revolutionize the way you use your on-board electronics. Whether underway or alongside. Whether fishing, cruising or relaxing with friends.

Technical Specifications:

General

• Waterproof Cat 5 Cabling
• 100 Mbits/Second Network speed
• Up to 20 Displays on Network
• Fully Automatic Network Confi guration - Plug and Play
• English, French, German, Italian, Spanish Operation
• Multilingual on-screen help as well as paper manual in English, and CD manual in other languages

Page Configuration

• Full screen
• Split screen (2 way)
• Split screen (3 way)
• Split screen (4 way)
• Thumbnail view (main window, with three small windows)
• Five favorites accessed via 'one touch' keys at bottom, further favorites accessed via 'Pages' key. Any application accessed via 'Display' key

Compliance/Environmental

• FCC
  • Part 15 (subpart A and B, Class B)
• CE
  • EMC directive 89/336/EEC (where applicable)
  • RTTE directive 1999/5/EC (where applicable)
• C-Tick
  • IEC 60945 (applicable parts)
• ISO 7637 part 2
• Waterproofing to IPX6 except where noted
• Applicable parts of IEC 60945
• 9 - 32V (12V and 24V systems) except where noted
• -10°C to +55°C Operating temperature (-15°C to +55°C for radar scanners)

12" All-In-One Display

• 12.1" Screen Size
• 800 X 600 pixels (SVGA) Screen Resolution
• Fully sunlight viewable,
• 25W Power Consumption
• 1.2 GHz Processor
• Infra-Red Touch Screen, fully sunlight viewable, with anti-fingerprint technology
• Built in keyboard, including rotary knob, display also works with
• additional remote keyboard
• Can be used with any USB Windows XP HID compliant pointing device (mouse, trackball, remote)
• Stereo Line Out via RCA (Optional Cable Required)
• Standard VGA out (Optional Cable Required)
• Ignition sense option (Optional Cable Required)
• Interfaces - NMEA (1 in, 1 out), NavBus, GPS, USB2 x 2, Serial Port (expandable with (NIB) Network Interface Bridge)
• Flush mount (only 12mm deep) or standard third party VESA mount

Chartplotting

• C-Map MAX PRO Cartography
• Worldwide Charts Preloaded, ready to unlock
• Chart Licenses can be purchased from Northstar, over the phone or on-line.
• Regular Chart Updates
• Very Fast Chart Redraw Speed
• Unlimited waypoint storage via USB memory stick
• Unlimited route storage via USB memory stick
• Unlimited track storage via USB memory stick
• Anti Grounding Alarm
• Head Up, North Up or Course Up Chart orientation
• Centered or Look Ahead modes
• Chart Datum selection
• Distance and Bearing Calculator
• Steering screen
• 2D, 3D perspective and Bathymetric style presentation mode.
• Satellite Photo Overlay
• Waypoints and Routes can be stored to USB storage device, or transferred in and out via NMEA
• Each waypoint can be set as an avoidance point, with adjustable alarm radius.
• Tidal heights
• Detailed Navaid and port data including pilotage photos

Sounder (optional module)

• Network sounder. Any display can control and view sounder data
• Less than 6W Power Consumption
• 600W/1kW Output Power, Auto sensing
• Dual Frequency - 50kHz/20 0KHz
• Bronze or plastic Thru-Hull and Transom Transducers
• A-Scope
• Bottom Lock
• Up to 100X Zoom
• Adaptive Digital Filtering
• Water temperature via compatible transducer
• Sounder module includes fuel port for easy engine room wiring of Diesel or gasoline fuel transducers

Instrumentation

• Up to 100 customizable panels
• Analog or digital data presentation
• Data from NMEA, GPS, or Northstar Instruments.
• Gasoline and Diesel fuel computations via fuel transducers

Network Camera Compatibility

• Support of Axis 206, 206W and 211 fixed camera
• Requires optional 3rd party waterproof enclosure
• Camera video is available to all displays
• Up to 10 cameras on Network

Network Switch (optional module)

• 8 ports, each with LED activity indicator
• Auto sense cross-over
• Waterproof RJ45 connection
• Less than 6W Power Consumption

Network Interface Bridge (optional module)

• NMEA (4 in, 3 out), NavBus, GPS, USB x 1, General purpose Serial Bus x 2
• Less than 6W Power Consumption

USB Hub (optional module)

• 4 ports, type A + 1 type B
• Waterproof USB Connection
• Less than 6W Power Consumption (not including attached devices)

Video Input (optional module)

• S-Video and Composite Video input, converted to USB
• Stereo audio converted to USB
• Video is available at the display to which it is connected
• Video is "managed" and is placed in an application window
• Can be used with 12" display or Black Box Processor

Digital Music Jukebox

• Music Format in MP3 or WMA
• Can store in excess of 100 CD's
• Music storage can be increased by use of third party storage device
• CDs can be recorded to the jukebox, or user can load WMA/MP3 files from USB memory stick or portable hard drive
• Stored music on one display can be played from any other display

Digital Video Jukebox

• Video Format in WMV, MPEG, AVI, DivX
• Stored video capacity dependant on format and size of video files, typically around 30 hours of video
• Video store can be increased by use of third party storage device
• User can load video files from USB memory stick or portable hard drive
• Stored video on one display can be played from any other display

DVD Player

• Dash or bulkhead mounted slot drive
• Less than 6W Power Consumption
• CD (audio), CD ROM, DVD (Video), DVD ROM. CDs containing MP3 can be copied to Digital Juke Box
• DVD player is controlled and accessed from the display to which it is connected
• Chart and software updates on CD or DVD can be automatically performed via the DVD player

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