That's all true, I have been using the iPaq 310 PNA myself (or 312, 314, 316, they're all the same hardware, only the car navi software they come with is different, who cares?) and it was reliable and fast enough. It boots into XCS from the SD as David mentioned, easy to hack. Only it does not have the transflective display. The display is pretty good, at high resolution compared to other non-transflective devices, still it is NOT transflective. I made some kind of foldable hood for it so the sun does not usually hit the screen directly. Last year I made a fiberglass case that can take a flarm, the GPS antenna, a voltage converter and the 310 with hood included, and attaches to the top of the instrument panel with only one cable to connect the whole setup to the glider's 12V supply. I have one left raw and unpainted, if anybody is interested.
Viele Grüße, Martin Kopplow --- Am 21.08.2011 um 15:06 schrieb David Reitter <david.reit...@gmail.com>: > On Aug 21, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Evan Ludeman wrote: > >> The cheap option is updating the ipaqs to ppc 2003. This is pretty much >> essential for XCS 6.x. I too found 6.x to be unusable on 2002. > > > Another cheap option is to buy an iPaq 310 PNA, which is available > second-hand for $70-110 (and higher, of course) from eBay. My second one was > just $30 without battery. > > It's important to get the original charger, and, for on-board power, use an > OTC USB cable with pins 2,3 pulled to 3,3V (or so). > The 310 is very hackable; the easiest setup is to boot directly into XCSoar > off a 1 or 2GB SD card (rename XCSoar to celauncher.exe). > > It has a transflective high-resolution screen, is fast enough, comes with a > built-in GPS, and one can turn the USB connection into a serial port. It > will _not_ directly talk to low-baud rate devices such as the Volkslogger. > > A number of guys in my club have bought this and are happy with it. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, > user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take > the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the > tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 > _______________________________________________ > Xcsoar-user mailing list > Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
