cap'n
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Ok, I found the Garmin brand handlebar mount for this eTrex model at REI for $18 and picked one up. I used it first on my bicycle riding through Manhattan and Brooklyn last weekend, and yesterday I put it on the fizzer to find a warehouse on the south shore I had to tour for work.
Nothing fancy here, no articulating arm, but the position is actually really good... no issues there. The problem is, as someone else mentioned, that the engine vibrations turn the device off up above about 6k. ?!?! "Low Battery" flashes a few times as it flirts with failure, and then finally it gives in to sweet, sweet vibrationy oblivion and winks out. You can reach down and turn it back on, but if you get up over 6k again, it will happen. This phenominon is not intermittant or gremlinish, it comes trotting right out like a trained pony whenever you want to see it - just nail the throttle and wait about 5 seconds.
Anybody found a fix for this? Does plugging the device into a 12V adaptor keep it on? My batteries were almost new, by the way.
Nothing fancy here, no articulating arm, but the position is actually really good... no issues there. The problem is, as someone else mentioned, that the engine vibrations turn the device off up above about 6k. ?!?! "Low Battery" flashes a few times as it flirts with failure, and then finally it gives in to sweet, sweet vibrationy oblivion and winks out. You can reach down and turn it back on, but if you get up over 6k again, it will happen. This phenominon is not intermittant or gremlinish, it comes trotting right out like a trained pony whenever you want to see it - just nail the throttle and wait about 5 seconds.
Anybody found a fix for this? Does plugging the device into a 12V adaptor keep it on? My batteries were almost new, by the way.