First time GPS user in need of some assistance please

[MERCURY & THE SUN]

Ok so I bought a used Magellan Explorist 200 and have to input the coordinates manually and have run into some issues in doing so. First off I use GPS Geoplaner online for my map program to get the coordinates to which I then input into the Explorist but it's not working out like I had expected:

Lets say for example that I have gotten the coordinates 33.62001°N - 112.16051°E from Geoplaner and then go to input them into the Explorist.

The Explorist format is constructed differently for example 33° 23.99 N 112° 29.630 W

If you compare the above format with the below they are not the same and this has left me bewildered and I have no clue on how to interpret that difference.

ALSO on the Explorist I noticed that lets say I need to input a 6 where the bold numbers are it will NOT go past 5 and then it just returns to 0: 33° 23.99 N 112° 29.630 W

If I mark a spot that I did not input it accepts a number larger than 5 but if I go to manually input the coordinates like I explained it will go up to 5 and then just restarts again at zero.

I appreciate any help I can get on this one and hope I have explained it well enough for someone with more experience to understand.

 

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[Scott_B]

Hi, I am by no means an expert on GPS, I'm sure somebody else will provide more detailed information. There are 3 common types of GPS coordinate formats. Your GPS might have a setting to be able to display the coordinates that is the same as GPS Geoplaner. Or you could go to a GPS coordinate converter website to convert it to the format that you need.
https://www.maptools.com/tutorials/lat_lon/formats
GPS Latitude and Longitude Converter

 

[Clay Diggins]

No need to convert just set your GPS to use Lat/Lon in decimal degrees. On many GPS units that's just selecting the ddd format but on your explorist it may be different. It will tell you how in the manual you got with the GPS unit.

Heres an example from Magellan:

If you select LAT/LON, you will be asked to select one of three
formats for displaying position coordinates: DEG/MIN.00, DEG/
MIN.000 or DEG/MIN/SEC. If you choose one of the first two
options, the display is in decimal format, while the third option is
based on 60 seconds in a minute.

 

[MERCURY & THE SUN]

OK then I am going to get to learning; thank you so much for your input the both of you it is HIGHLY APPRECIATED

 

[junkhunt]

OK then I am going to get to learning; thank you so much for your input the both of you it is HIGHLY APPRECIATED

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