magellan triton 400 - help?!?

[grandview cache club]

Ok, so we bought this GPS on sale today. They are supposidly pretty new. We have done a couple of other finds without a GPS. We are now trying to find out how to send our coordinates to our GPS. We did manage to do this manually, although they change by themselves. We can't seem to get it to create a waypoint in the right place.

 

Any beginner help would be much appreciated.

 

thanks

[+briansnat]

Moving to the appropriate forum

[+gpsblake]

Ok, so we bought this GPS on sale today. They are supposidly pretty new. We have done a couple of other finds without a GPS. We are now trying to find out how to send our coordinates to our GPS. We did manage to do this manually, although they change by themselves. We can't seem to get it to create a waypoint in the right place.

 

Any beginner help would be much appreciated.

 

thanks

 

I'll try

 

I'm assuming you have installed VantagePoint which came with the unit. Then connect your Triton unit, upgrade to the newest firmware. Hopefully you've done that... then.....

 

Then you can download geocache coordinates as a loc file. Just remember to change it from geocaching.loc to something else like GCxxxxx.loc Once you do that, open VantagePoint, go to library, waypoints, import the loc to VantagePoint, then synch it up to your Triton unit. (you might have to read instructions for more details).

 

If you decide to spring for Premium member, you can download the geocache coordinates as a gpx file, then import into the Triton as a Geocache... which will also put all the information about the cache into your Triton unit as well as the coordinates.

 

If you create the waypoints yourself on the unit, make sure you click the green check box when you are done, you might have to scroll down to find it.

 

A really good support forum for the Triton is at

 

www.tritonforum.com

 

Good luck and if you need more help, just holler!!!

Edited March 25, 2008 by gpsblake

[swales]

Ok, so we bought this GPS on sale today. They are supposidly pretty new. We have done a couple of other finds without a GPS. We are now trying to find out how to send our coordinates to our GPS. We did manage to do this manually, although they change by themselves. We can't seem to get it to create a waypoint in the right place.

 

Any beginner help would be much appreciated.

 

thanks

 

I'll try

 

I'm assuming you have installed VantagePoint which came with the unit. Then connect your Triton unit, upgrade to the newest firmware. Hopefully you've done that... then.....

 

Then you can download geocache coordinates as a loc file. Just remember to change it from geocaching.loc to something else like GCxxxxx.loc Once you do that, open VantagePoint, go to library, waypoints, import the loc to VantagePoint, then synch it up to your Triton unit. (you might have to read instructions for more details).

 

If you decide to spring for Premium member, you can download the geocache coordinates as a gpx file, then import into the Triton as a Geocache... which will also put all the information about the cache into your Triton unit as well as the coordinates.

 

If you create the waypoints yourself on the unit, make sure you click the green check box when you are done, you might have to scroll down to find it.

 

A really good support forum for the Triton is at

 

www.tritonforum.com

 

Good luck and if you need more help, just holler!!!

 

Don't waste your time at www.tritonforum.com... they either work for Magellan and are trying to hide the problems... or they simply won't let you post your issue there.. without editing it.

[+miniwhip]

The only thing I won't allow posting about is a class action suit against Magellan. That is why he was banned. There are plenty of complaints on the forum that are still there, as well as positive posts. If you want to discuss a lawsuit, do it somewhere else.