On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Dudley Ibbett <[email protected]> wrote: > When it comes to battery life i think you need to treat Garmin's figures > (they are up to) with a degree of caution to avoid disappointment. For the > Oregon they quote 16hrs. For the 62s 20hrs. With rechargeables a figure of > 60-70% of this is probably more realistic. Even then you'll probably need to > turn the screen brightness down to achieve this.
IMHO (again with the Oregon), there are only two useful brightness settings: minimum, and off. In the dark, the minimum is enough. If there is ambient light, then even maximum doesn't make much difference so you might as well turn it off. Probably a bit OT, sorry. Steve _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
