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We have a 60C and LOVE IT. We upgraded from a 76S and found the compass to be a waste of money and battery life. The only time we’d ever use it was for a heading to the next cache. We have found that a regular compass along with the heading on the GPS works MUCH better. The compass aside, the 60C/S is a great unit and would HIGHLY recomend it!!!!
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Originally posted by GrouseTales:
We come to these message boards to share our love of geocaching and have some Camaraderie.I don’t care who it’s directed at, if it isn’t nice, take it elsewhere.
Lets all play nice in the sandbox. If you throw sand in someone’s eyes, it hurts. Lets get back to playing with our toys and leave the sand throwing to the GC.com forums.
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Ok I’ve never posted before – usually Chad’s the poster – but this is sad. Message boards aren’t always supposed to be “nice.” They are for trying to fix things also. If someone sees a problem they should be able to say something about it without being told they should always play “nice.”
I agree this is a family board, but Lotsacache Jr’s aren’t reading it. I would only ask that things said are truthful and self censored – no four letter words.
If I don’t agree with something the board has decided, I should be able to say so.
Just my two cents…Mrs. Lotsacache
Very nice! Didn’t you just start caching??? How did you get to 1100??? Man, time flies!!! Very impressive!!! (I mean that in the traditional sense, not the new and improved way)
-Team LotsaCache
(sniff, sniff) Seems like just yesterday you were at our REI geocaching clinic…now look at you…all grown up!!! LOL
Applause and congrats!!!
-Team LotsaCache
04/25/2005 at 6:42 pm in reply to: Socko hunts his 1300th find at State of Mind Villa Park! #1757104Nice job!! Wish we could have seen it!
Just finished a project with a Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) rechargeables so I will attempt to provide some ‘nerdy’ info to those who care.
Battery mfgs usually rate cells based on a certain discharge rate. This is usually something like 1% or 5% of the batteries rated capacity. For instance a 2100mAh tested with a load of 210mA should last for 10 hours. Similarly with a load of 1050mA, it should last for 2 hours. This is usually denoted in the battery datasheet as C or ‘capacity’. So 0.1C on a 2100mAh cell is 210 mA. A Garmin 60C discharges a 2100mAh cell at about .038C and should last about 26 hours.
NiMH cells have a certain ‘look’ to their discharge curves. That is they start out at about 1.4V drop quickly to about 1.25 volts and hover there for the longest time. The cells are considered ‘dead’ when they reach about 1.0V. This is how the battery gauge on your GPS works, it figures out where in the discharge curve you are and changes the indicator accordingly. This is also why on the newer GPS’s there is a setting for battery type. Primary cells (alkalines) have different looking curves than NiMH cells.
‘Batteries are like frogs.’ That’s what another engineer once told me. By this he meant they are a bit unpredictable, especially at the beginning and end of their life. So a 2100mAh cell at .038C may only last 4 hours on a full charge. Similarly it may last 30 hours on a full charge in the middle of its life. A typical cell will last between 500-1000 charges.
Energizer datasheets:
1700 mAh http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/nh15-1700mAh.pdf
2100 mAh http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/nh15-2100mAh.pdf
2500 mAh http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/nh15.pdfWas this useful?
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Originally posted by arcangl7:
workbook? all I found was the mainbook and the audio CD. Did I miss something?
Our Garmin 60C with 2 2500mAh energizer rechargable NiMh batteries lasts about 24-30 hours!!!
Did someone say tick? SPOOOOOON!!!!!!
http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=46627Sorry, couldn’t be helped!
You bet it’s awesome!! Have you tried the turn by turn on your 60CS yet? For example nav to a cache and select follow road. This was fantastic for doing the BoB series in IL. We have the 60C and it’s the best GPS we’ve had!
We have the books (main book and workbook). We would be willing to share what we’ve solved with other teams that are also working on it.
Contact us via our geocaching profile: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=b4571e1b-f1b7-461c-a437-e883c780531c
(Blush) Well I’m glad the our technology inspired you!!! We use a PocketPC and I use used Spinner with a web browser. I just switched over to using GPXview and GPXsonar, which I was using this weekend, both of which seem pretty good. The biggest time saver is running pocket queries and using your communications cable to download the GPX files to the GPS. (Oh and I HIGHLY recommend the Garmin 60C, we LOVE ours!!!)
04/20/2005 at 1:05 am in reply to: Congrats to djwini on their 400th find .. looks like a new c #1757056Very nice!!!
I guess we’ll have to get moving to stay ahead of you!!! Have to do some caching together with Mic sometime…OK, we’ll let her hold the GPS.-Team LotsaCache
Thanks for hiding such a fun cache (and for the $20!!!) We had a great time caching with you on Sunday, thanks for putting up with all the puns!!!
-Chad & Dawn
The two of you are inspiration to all of us! Congrats!
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