New Garmin Montana

[Rocky TFS]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

>Improved touchable accuracy of red pin removal
Seems better, but then the previous incarnation gave me no problems.

I've been wondering how this works. Is there a setting that disables the red pin, or do you just touch it again to make it go away?

Signed,

Waiting for 4.00

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by Rocky TFS

I've been wondering how this works. Is there a setting that disables the red pin, or do you just touch it again to make it go away?

Signed,

Waiting for 4.00

When a red pin shows up, there's a "Properties" area at the top of the screen, with an X in the lower right. Click the X and the pin disappears.

[moto-treks]

I'm still having route editing problems on the Garmin. When I create a route in BaseCamp and send it to the Montana I see this when I go to the Route Planner and view the route



if I delete the route point, Pendleton



The route looks like this



and never recalculates

If I create the exact same route on the Montana I can delete/modify all I want and the route will always recalculate when viewed in the Route Planner. I'm not sure if this is a Beta problem or has always been there as I only tried it after loading the 3.9x betas

[DR. Rock]

Tried it. Still gives me the same intermittant crash when enabling / disabling maps with a lot of topo lines.

Back to 3.90 = totally stable.

[cablebandit]

Originally Posted by DR. Rock

Back to 3.90 = totally stable.

Until it's not.

[BobM]

Garmin V3.99 changes show Direct Routing fixed but the problem I reported about not being able to load a 50+waypoint route when Activity is set to Prompted is exactly the same. Not sure what problem they were refering to as everything else worked correctly with Direct Routing (when Activity pre-set to Prompted) on V3.90.

Anyone know of other Direct Routing problems?

[DRTBYK]

Yep, still a number of issues unresolved with this beta-update. Maybe there needs to be a v3.991 beta-update.

Cheers,

[cablebandit]

Originally Posted by DRTBYK

Yep, still a number of issues unresolved with this beta-update. Maybe there needs to be a v3.991 beta-update.

Cheers,

Ten chances to get it right before 4.0.

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by DRTBYK

Yep, still a number of issues unresolved with this beta-update. Maybe there needs to be a v3.991 beta-update.

Cheers,

They sure can't call it 4.0!

[Lycan1]

Another AMPS cradle question since tech support at Garmin had no clue. Can anyone tell me wether the center pin on the cradle (the one with the little plastic fins separating it from the others) is supposed to be the Ground or the Hot? I am thinking that I may have got it wrong in attaching the battery tender plug. As it is my center pin is "ground" and the one to the immediate right is the "hot". This is with the cradle in the upright position with the pins at the bottom of the cradle.

Before I pull the connection apart and test tonight I thought someone might know.

Either I have it wrong, or there is a problem with my Montana 600 as it still will not charge in the cradle. The cradle is getting power. So either the wrong pins have power(hot to the wrong pin) or for some reason the Montana is not getting it to the battery.

Also note: The 600 charges just fine with the USB charger in a wall outlet from the kit, or when plugged into the computers USB port.

[Rocky TFS]

Originally Posted by Lycan1

Another AMPS cradle question since tech support at Garmin had no clue. Can anyone tell me wether the center pin on the cradle (the one with the little plastic fins separating it from the others) is supposed to be the Ground or the Hot? I am thinking that I may have got it wrong in attaching the battery tender plug.

Yes, you got it backwards, just like me the first time.

I got confused by the plus and minus on the SAE plug since any SAE plug can be either male or female.
If one of your SAE plugs is directly connected to the battery, it's hot side will be the hole, not the pin, for obvious reasons.

When you add the other side of the plug, it will have a minus symbol on its pin, but it's still the hot side. Just switch and resolder the wires AFTER the two SAE plugs. The center pin on the mount should be hot.

[gots_a_sol]

For those who like picture evidence

Hot



Ground

[Lycan1]

Originally Posted by gots_a_sol

For those who like picture evidence

Hot



Ground

Perfect! This I can fix. Thank you for taking the time to post that!! I managed to find a link to a site that explained the "pinout"

From left to right
1.- Serial Data Out (blue wire)
2. - Serial Data in (yellow wire)
3. - Audio GND (Sleeve of 3.5mm jack socket)
4. - Power (10-50V) (red wire)
5. - Power GND / Serial GND (black and green wires)
6. - Audio L/R ( both tip and ring of 3.5mm jack socket)
7. - No Pin (this is populated on the car adapter)

[Lycan1]

Originally Posted by Rocky TFS

Yes, you got it backwards, just like me the first time.

I got confused by the plus and minus on the SAE plug since any SAE plug can be either male or female.
If one of your SAE plugs is directly connected to the battery, it's hot side will be the hole, not the pin, for obvious reasons.

When you add the other side of the plug, it will have a minus symbol on its pin, but it's still the hot side. Just switch and resolder the wires AFTER the two SAE plugs. The center pin on the mount should be hot.

I used the extra lead from the Optimate that has the two aligator clips on it, for charging a battery not in a bike. I attached the red wire to the wire that had the red clip on it, assuming that the optimate people had it right. So much for that.

I appreciate the help and will have this fixed tonight!

[dacrazyrn]

Originally Posted by DR. Rock

Tried it. Still gives me the same intermittant crash when enabling / disabling maps with a lot of topo lines.

Ditto