"David J Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is +80C enough for you? <G>
Although Garmin fails to mention how long the unit will last at that temperature. It is not hard to make electronics that will survive a few high temperature blips. It is much harder to make stuff that doesn't have severely degraded lifetimes when run or stored at elevated temperatures. This lifetime issue is something I'm wrestling with for my car gps right now. It would be nice to put the antenna on the car's roof where it sees all the available satellites. The problem is, the car's roof gets pretty darn hot when it is sitting in the sun on a hot dry summer day. None of the manufacturers give lifetime curves for their products when used in that manner. I don't think that the magnetically mounted GPS units are really meant to be kept mounted when the car is parked. How long would they stay on the car? Around here, I'd imagine it wouldn't last a month. It appears that their usage model is really is to only put the unit on the car roof when driving. I'm not sure where that leaves the magnetic car units like the Garmin 18 that have been pressed into PPS service. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ IPv6 on Fedora 7 http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/fedora/ipv6-tunnel.html _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions