Re: Garmin GPS 60-user experience

From: bill_2005 (groups_junk_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: 10 Mar 2005 07:59:06 -0800

>2. GPS 60 consumes batteries. 2 AAs are gone in 2-3 hours.

I'm very surprised by this. As most people here will tell you, the
60-series is known for phenomonal battery life. I always get >20 hours
and routinely >30 hours of life from my 60c (backlight off of course).
If this is really the case I would send the thing back to Garmin.
They're usually very quick about fixing/replacing faulty units.

>4. GPS 60 lacks a fundamental navigation page a la Garmin 45 nav
>page where track, speed, POSITION, (altitude) and time is
>conveniently displayed on one page. It is possible to tweak GPS
>60 to do something similar by redefining the "trip computer" to
>display position, course and speed but that Ždestroys' the trip
>computer and also does not work well-e.g course is not updated
>correctly.

I would try customizing your compass page with the 'Change Data Fields'
menu option. I'm sure you could get most of what you want.

>5. In demo-mode I have not found a way to conveniently enter
>position, course and speed to simulate a moving boat.

I think this is just undocumented. Go to the compass page....up/down
cursor keys will change your speed and left/right will change your
direction.

-Bill