Ferdinand Soethe wrote: > I was about to order the etrex yesterday because I can't find > anything cheaper, waterproofer and more suitable for kayaking as > far as I can tell. But then I stumbled on Garmins German homepage > across the info, that eTrex has NO internal backup battery. > > Can anybody comment on that please? Does that mean that I'll loose > all stored info like trip data and waypoints if I need to change > batteries along the trip? Or does the eTrex use some sans-battery > buffering mechnismen that protects data for a couple of minutes. > The data I read somewhere ( I have been trying to quickly find it, unsuccessfully so far.) states that there is no need for a battery backup. I have replaced the batteries in my Etrex once already with no loss of data. Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Apr 24 2000 - 22:43:07 PDT
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