pitchblende Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 When in the outer banks of North Carolina, in track up mode, the display started swinging direction very erratically. This was cured when I changed the display to North up. The compass was off. any ideas? Quote Link to comment
capt caper Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 How was your accuracy factor doing? Maybe the way you were holding it something was blocking the signal at times. That would make it that way. Quote Link to comment
+Quoddy Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 I found this situation to be caused mainly by arm and hand motion. The unit is very sensitive to both, particularly in the track up mode (which I use). I attribute this to the fact that arm/hand, and even body changes alter the track; North doesn't move. I now hold and move slightly differently when near the target which almost totally alleviates the "jumping". As a note: I switched from a Mericolor to the 60cs. The Mericolor averaged SO much that it appered to disregard the hand/arm motion. I switched to the 60cs BECAUSE of the Meridian's averaging and slowness at the cache. Quote Link to comment
+Keykeeper Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 When in the outer banks of North Carolina, in track up mode, the display started swinging direction very erratically. This was cured when I changed the display to North up. The compass was off. any ideas? New update software came out today. Ver 3.40, supposed to take care of compass issues. Garmin site under support. Quote Link to comment
pitchblende Posted June 8, 2004 Author Share Posted June 8, 2004 Thanks, we will see. Never had that happen before when walking. Was holding it like I usually do. Maybe there was an unusal satellite geometry or anomaly that was creating signal issues. Also, with the compass off, I thought all direction info was garnered just from GPS positions. Thanks Quote Link to comment
MacBandit Posted June 9, 2004 Share Posted June 9, 2004 I was getting this problem with my Vista a couple weeks ago and I tied it to slow screen response due to having WAAS on. Quote Link to comment
pitchblende Posted June 21, 2004 Author Share Posted June 21, 2004 still having the problem and about to cal Garmin tech support. If anyone else has had the problem, I will be happy to pass it on Quote Link to comment
pitchblende Posted June 22, 2004 Author Share Posted June 22, 2004 Garmin tech support no help - suggested it was random accuracy problem (nothing wrong) suggested I use my magnetic compass all the time. asked if I was holding it horizontally suggested I keep it in North up mode. asked if I used WAAS, suggested I turn it off I will try a reset and see what happens. *** Anyone know the reset procedure for the 60CS? *** I will document results next time and demand service/exchange. -------------------------------------------------------- My feeling it is some kind of accuracy problem that is not visible in the accuracy circle or EOP reading. Either that or there is some problem in the computational chain that handles coordinate calculations. Also I notice on bike trips where I take a couple of breaks their is no 'stopped time' recorded. That leads me to believe that all the time it is sensing movement because the recorded coordinates are jumping around all over the place. ----------------------------------- Any thoughts, advice? Quote Link to comment
pitchblende Posted June 25, 2004 Author Share Posted June 25, 2004 GPS is back performing well - just did a "page enter' reset (after backing up) and all is well! I think maybe you should do these resets every once in a while, just like an oil change. Quote Link to comment
+Centex Trekker Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 Don't all of your preferences go back to default? Data fields for example. Quote Link to comment
pitchblende Posted June 28, 2004 Author Share Posted June 28, 2004 Yes. It's like how the unit came out of the box (no waypoints (other than the Garmin locations; no tracks; no routes)). Just back it up before you do it. It did retain the MapSource maps I had loaded in. Let is sit outside for a little while to collect all the data, and do an autolocate or 'map pointer' relocate. Quote Link to comment
+Centex Trekker Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Is there a way to save preferences (backup)? Quote Link to comment
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