Re: [time-nuts] Garmin 255W GPS units

2010-08-04 Thread Bob Camp
Hi They are fairly standard navigation receivers. The data they put out is also fairly standard. Based on my experience with flood damaged electronics, your estimate for working units may be a bit high if they were under long enough to get well soaked. Bob On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:04 AM, jim

Re: [time-nuts] Garmin 255W GPS units

2010-08-04 Thread Pete Lancashire
fi they are like 265's you can run them in Fleet mode and that can get you positional updates something like once a second. a goal of mine with the 265W I have in the truck once I come across a cheap Linux PC in a can that runs off 12V -pete On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:04 PM, jim stephens

[time-nuts] Garmin 255W GPS units

2010-08-03 Thread jim stephens
I have access to a large number of these units (~600). We are in the process of scanning them for functional units. They are 4 dashtop type car or boat units. I have played with a functional one, and accessed some info with free software, and would of course like to get to the actual live