Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 20:12:35 +0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Cotton) Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto 100 as a GPS whould like to hear your experience
http://www.billcotton.com/tripmate.htm My setup with a L50 is pictured on the page above with a serial input from the Garmin GPS II to the L 50. http://www.billcotton.com/bicycle_electric.htm This page had pictures of external power packs of 10 AA NiMH cells. Cells are 2000 and 2250 mAh. Freshly charged the cells will jumpstart the L 50. One pack has 11 cells and a push button switch that will junpstart with weak batteries. Also picture is an alternator tester that is used as a voltage indicator. > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:20:13 EST > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto 100 as a GPS whould like to hear your experience > > In a message dated 1/5/2004 11:54:33 AM Mountain Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Hello All, > > > Trying to get some information from you guys how do you use your Libretto as > > > a GPS machine in your car I will describe the way I implemented it and the > > > problems I’m facing. > > > > > > Having a Libretto 100 with 166 MHz, 64 MB memory and 30GB disk I looked at > > it as the best solution for GPS in my Car . > > Leaving currently in the US I bought 2 different MAP SW: Streets and Trips > > 2003 - Microsoft, and Street Atlas USA 2003 - Delorme. > > I'm using a USB GPS which I bought for ~ $100 via the internet from company > > called Deluo : http://www.deluo.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc. > > > > Using my Dock station (I need a USB connection and only now I ordered a USB > > 2 cards PCMCIA from Ebay) and giving 110 V power using a DC - AC converter > > for my car. > > Trying to find a place to install the GPS on my Dashboard and without making > > any holes in it - I finally put it in the gloves drawer (Keeping it open). > > > > Knowing that that it is not the nicer solution I still expected to get a lot > > from this combination. > > > > The problems - The first SW (Streets and Trips 2003) is being updated by the > > GPS every ~15 seconds - which mean that you can miss the turn. - After > > finding a patch in the Internet that increase the frequency for every 2 > > seconds it become better but cause other problems (The system is loosing > > connection to the GPS and other. I read that the 2004 version has a better > > GPS module. > > > > The second SW (Street Atlas USA 2003 - Delorme ) worked better but it took > > almost 10 minutes until I was able to get the first signal from the GPS and > > find my location in the map. To be honest the requirement for this SW was > > 266 Mhz Pentium machine. BTW this SW has a Voice support which can give you > > directions by voice and also can answer to build in list of verbal > > questions. > > > > Testing these two SW with my other Laptop (IBM T-20) show that the problem > > is not in the GPS or in the SW but seems to be as a result of the low CPU > > power I have in my Libretto. > > > > Would like to hear from your experience. > > Thanks. > > Yuval > > > > I'm using Street Atlas version 8. It has a few less features, but is much > less demanding than the 2003 version, cpu-wise. It acquires the GPS pretty much > instantly. I tried Streets and Trips, but could never get it to see the GPS > at all, using a PCMCIA/serial adapter (my GPS is a Garmin Etrex Venture with > serial interface). > > Placing the GPS in a glovebox may be affecting the signal acquisition. Have > you confirmed that the GPS is receiving at least three satellites strongly > when the GPS is in the glovebox? > > There are dash mounting systems for the Garmin and Magellan GPSs, maybe there > is one available for your brand. It really helps signal acquisition to have > my GPS on the dash. > > Lee > > > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list > http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives > > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- > Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be > addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text > on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe > --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ > Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest > ************************************************************** > ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
