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The Garmin Web site is acting a bit flaky. The link failed for me the first time I tried it just now, then worked on the second attempt. --Larry Screen shots still don't work.

What brand and model GPS?

Zagg. It's on both of my Vista HCx, my cameras, and my Fluke digital meter.

I'll keep my guns, my freedoms, and my money. You can keep your "change". And I'll keep my GPS on me too!

I wonder how may passengers were watching their GPSr when the plane overflew Minneapolis while the pilots were distracted in the cockpit on that Northwest Airline flight.

Now that airlines have been instructed to stop displaying the in-air display of the aircraft position on the seat monitor during some flights, is anyone aware of any new restrictions on GPS usage?

It strikes me as strange that either would affect battery life significantly, if at all. Aren't they all just essentially programs that are either run, or not run, on a microchip "computer" that is always on when the GPS is on? Yes but thier are also sensors that must be powered to get the data for the programs to run. Also, as noted above, processing the data forcess the processor to consume more power than it would have without it. Just turning on the extra current for processors and sensors will create a tiny bit of resistance in the system causing a bit more power to be consumed. The extra power draw causes all that circuitry to heat up (if only by the tiniest fraction of a degree) and that causes it to run less effciently and draw more power. Your electrical theory is wrong, but you're correct in general terms as to the extra sensors causing more current consumption. It's just that increasing resistance in a circuit does NOT cause increased current consumption. It reduces it. Sensors and such could be regarded as adding resistance devices in parallel and that reduces resistance overall in the circuit. The single most effective thing you can do to reduce current consumption and increase battery life is to turn down or turn off the backlight.

This limitation is a pain in the neck. Try searching for your terms using google and include the terms site:forums.Groundspeak.com waas

sure can. i do it all the time.

2010.10 123 maps 1133.0 MB 2010.30 136 maps 1244.5 MB This includes Mexico

To give you an idea, I have had my Vista HCx since last Christmas time. I've used it for hiking, geocaching, and biking (road and mountain). My card has 194 tracks recorded to it, one for each day I've turned it on. They occupy 11MB of space. The tracks range in size from 1KB to about 430KB. I'd guess the average is about 80KB, which is close to 11MB/194 files. Today I hiked 2.67 miles with my dog for just over an hour. That track is 80KB.

What is the minutes to hours rollover issue?

That review is more than 2 years old. The new eneloops are newer than that, correct?

Looks like a decent enough charger : http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=20800 One easy way to verify is to plug in almost freshly charged battery into it and see how long it takes for the light to turn green. It should be pretty fast, compared to an almost depleted battery. That assumes the charger does not "condition" and discharge the cell first before charging it up, as several of the MAHA chargers do.

Double sided Gorilla tape? Are you sure they make this stuff? I can't find it mentioned on the Gorilla site or listed for sale anywhere.

The Garmin Nuviphone just got one of the 5 worst "turkey" products of the year in a CNET review. "Fails as a phone" & "not worth the money" http://cnettv.cnet.com/tech-turkeys/9742-1...tml?tag=nl.e404

Duracell Hybrids work great. I get hours and hours and hours on my ETrex Vista HCX while biking and hiking from week to week. It's nice to not have to worry about the self discharge killing them during the week while waiting for the next weekend warrior day. I used plain old NiMH before and the self discharge issue was terrible.

You should have just popped it in a card reader and reformatted it from your PC. Send it to me and I'll do it for you.

I looked at the 660 manual on line and don't see that setting instruction listed, though it clearly is listed in my 760 manual as well as on the 760 itself.

Have you gotten a satellite fix recently? No settings for time zone in the menus like there is on my 760? I agree that the search tool on here is useless many times because of the character limit!

Fixed as of 12:21P EST today.

How come when I go to the welcome page and click the "go" button next to where my lat and long are filled in (pre-populated) i get a long list of nearby locations to choose from? This is a new "feature"? I'm not interested in nearby locations. I want to search in a radius from my home!

You are correct.

Perhaps, but if the original poster has lots of pois, caches, etc. they may not be able to do that. Their concern is knowing how much space they have available on their unit. I can't tell you that on my Vista HCx internal memory either, but I CAN tell you how much is left on my micro SD card in it.

I figured it out. I transferred one map at a time instead of as a set and they went in seconds. Thanks. uhh, if you transfer one map at a time, aren't you overwriting the prior mapsets? You end up with just one map, the last one you transferred. If that is ok with you, fine.