when does battery strength degrade gps?

[+Team Chinook]

11 finds, 1 DNF today along the Sonoma coast after abalone diving. The DNF turns out was due to the cache being pulled due to muggles. Eventually I got a battery low message and the last find took awhile. At what point do you give up due to error associated w/ battery?

 

11 finds on a colorado 400T...btw. T/C

[Hertzog]

11 finds, 1 DNF today along the Sonoma coast after abalone diving. The DNF turns out was due to the cache being pulled due to muggles. Eventually I got a battery low message and the last find took awhile. At what point do you give up due to error associated w/ battery?

 

11 finds on a colorado 400T...btw. T/C

When it shuts down; at least that's my experience

 

That might not be true of all GPSrs of course, but I've never encountered a situation with 3 different GPSrs where I thought low battery power was degrading performance. But that doesn't include the Colorado.

[+twolpert]

Judging from track data, I have never seen Colorado position information degrade on low battery. This is true right up to the point where the units shuts down.

[MtnHermit]

For my two units, Venture Cx and Nuvi 205W, and based on tracklogs, the nuvi just shuts down whereas the Venture goes berserk. The tracklog looks like a sawtooth, fortunately the Venture's 32-hr battery life makes the sawtooth a rare occurrence.

[+webscouter.]

I have noticed that my Colorado seems to only lock up when the batteries get low.