+AD0SB Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Has anyone else here experienced strange behavior when using hybrid rechargeable cells on their gps? With mine, the battery indicator will still show 50% left but my gps starts to jump around, and takes forever to lock onto satellites... Is it an inherent issue with hybrid cells? Quote Link to comment
+StarDoc Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Has anyone else here experienced strange behavior when using hybrid rechargeable cells on their gps? With mine, the battery indicator will still show 50% left but my gps starts to jump around, and takes forever to lock onto satellites... Is it an inherent issue with hybrid cells? I'm using them in my eTrex, and have had no problem with them. Maybe it's that new receiver you just got... ;-) Seriously, though, I use only Ray-o-vac hybrids in mine, and have never had a problem. PS Quote Link to comment
+Klatch Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Seriously, though, I use only Ray-o-vac hybrids in mine, and have never had a problem. PS Nor have I. Quote Link to comment
Didjerrydo Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Seriously, though, I use only Ray-o-vac hybrids in mine, and have never had a problem. PS Nor have I. No problem here either. I'm afraid this is not a battery related issue. Quote Link to comment
+DonB Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Has anyone else here experienced strange behavior when using hybrid rechargeable cells on their gps? With mine, the battery indicator will still show 50% left but my gps starts to jump around, and takes forever to lock onto satellites... Is it an inherent issue with hybrid cells? I use Sanyo, Kodak, and Rayovac hybrids and have had no problems. When this happens have you tried installing a fresh set of batteries right then and see if the problem goes away? Quote Link to comment
eaparks Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 (edited) Seriously, though, I use only Ray-o-vac hybrids in mine, and have never had a problem. Neither have I, that is all I have ever used in my 60CSx. You might double check your GPSs battery type setting to make sure it is set to NiMh and not alkaline, if you haven't already. It seems that I remember a year or so ago someone on the forum had a similar problem, don't remember the culprit, it was to many 1,000s of post ago. Edited September 8, 2008 by eaparks Quote Link to comment
+Team Chinook Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 What is a hybrid rechargeable? What battery setting do you use with this battery? Perhaps that is the problem... Quote Link to comment
+GOT GPS? Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 I had an early model 60Cx, and I have a 60CSx bought last September, and the 60Cx bought Feb 2006, was all over the place with the Battery Meter going up and down, when using any rechargable, and especially did not like the Radio Shack Hybrids. Any battery that crapped out in the 60Cx, would continue to work in the newer 60CSx of mine. Not just the battery meter showed fluctuations in the old 60Cx, but the Receiver was very unstable. The best batteries in my old 60Cx seemed to be Duracell Alkalines, which helped the old 60Cx run more stable. Seems some GPS units may not be purfect, with some of them being on the border of being defective. Quote Link to comment
yogazoo Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Rayovac Hybrids and Sanyo Eneloops are of the same type of rechargable. NIMH's that hold their charge longer than regular NIMH's. You sacrafice capacity for charge holding capabilities since the mah rating on the hybrid style batteries currently max out at 2100mah's. Make sure your units battery settings are for NIMH rechargeables. I have had no trouble with mine but I'll run my Colorado through some paces tonight and see if I can't reproduce what your seeing. Quote Link to comment
+AD0SB Posted September 8, 2008 Author Share Posted September 8, 2008 To answer a previous question, yes when I put the new batteries in it locked almost immediately, and the sats stayed consistent... To answer the other question, I just checked and it was set for alkaline batteries... Just changed it to NiMH now. I will give that a try, does anyone know what that setting does, I cant seem to figure out why that would matter, its not as if you can recharge the batteries while in the unit. Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 To answer a previous question, yes when I put the new batteries in it locked almost immediately, and the sats stayed consistent... To answer the other question, I just checked and it was set for alkaline batteries... Just changed it to NiMH now. I will give that a try, does anyone know what that setting does, I cant seem to figure out why that would matter, its not as if you can recharge the batteries while in the unit. The discharge curves are different, that is, the voltage to discharge state. I don't have a problem with my 76CSx on NiMH batteries set for NiMH. Jim Quote Link to comment
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