On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:18:07 -0400 Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subash wrote: > > > during my recent ride in the himalayas i had taken a garmin gps > > with me (the vista hcx) and almost every day's ride was saved as > > tracks. had taken eight eneloop batteries to power the device (had > > also fixed a DC 12V cigarette lighter socket to the motorcycle > > battery to charge the eneloops through a DC charger). managed to > > keep the device powered through the 21 days of the ride... > > I also used an eTrex Vista HCx on my trip to Bulgaria back in > February. I did the same thing you did, leaving it running and > recording my track all of the time I was out and about. I used > Lithium AA batteries and got about 50 hours of use per pair of > batteries with essentially zero backlight usage, and not one heck of > a lot of looking at the screen at all. hi Doug, the eneloops were pretty decent too since i did leave the backlight on at moderate levels because i was stopping and entering waypoints every once in a while. the vista hcx was pretty good. the only time it lost the signal was when we were inside a 3-km long tunnel (of course).... how do you sync your photos with the gps device? i never used the garmin to geotag my photos... regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
