New Garmin Montana

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by Rocky TFS

Edit: Boy we've sure done a good job of hijacking THIS thread!

I'm just trying to beat DRTBYK's record of posts in the thread.

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Besides, when it's this cold, what else can you do but plug in the block heater, battery charger and log on? (The fire)

[Albie]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

Sure glad I don't need to go outside today...

Holy crap that's effing cold!!!

[BigOgre]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

At $35 each, it's easy to justify buying a Rugged Mount for each bike but it's also easy to make the mount movable, by putting a SAE plug on the end of it, and running a cable up to the steering head of the bikes. I used to do this until I bought the second mount for my DR. Actually I still have the SAE plug on each cable, it's just that I no longer need to move the mount over. I like having the SAE plug though because when I don't need to power the gps, I can hook up a Battery Tender to the bike.

New to the world of GPS and decided to start with the Montana. Very grateful for this thread but DAMN there's a lot to learn!

Re. switching between bikes. Anything bad to say about using a Powerlet connector instead of the SAE plug here? This would be the simpliest solution for me but after reading about the Montana's sensitivity to current, wondering if vibration/movement within this type of connection would cause any issues.

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by BigOgre

Re. switching between bikes. Anything bad to say about using a Powerlet connector instead of the SAE plug here? This would be the simpliest solution for me but after reading about the Montana's sensitivity to current, wondering if vibration/movement within this type of connection would cause any issues.

A Powerlet would work just as well.

[cablebandit]

So. I've had the Montana for quite a while and it generally stays on the bike. Since it's so damn cold out I decided to bring it in and play around with it a little. I have CN2012 installed and have all of North America and Mexico. I wanted to make a smaller mapset with just a few states. I installed the maps using Mapinstall and renamed the IMG file MidAtlantic.

My question is this: Why can I not see this map when I go to the select map portion of the Montana. It is in the same /Garmin directory as the other map that covers the entire country.

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by cablebandit

So. I've had the Montana for quite a while and it generally stays on the bike. Since it's so damn cold out I decided to bring it in and play around with it a little. I have CN2012 installed and have all of North America and Mexico. I wanted to make a smaller mapset with just a few states. I installed the maps using Mapinstall and renamed the IMG file MidAtlantic.

My question is this: Why can I not see this map when I go to the select map portion of the Montana. It is in the same /Garmin directory as the other map that covers the entire country.

Have you tried using JaVaWa Device Manager to see if the map is set up properly? It's a great program. (I am not affiliated with them in any way - I just like the program)

[cablebandit]

OK, I was able to rename the Nationwide map to Nationwide instead of the tile listing it formerly was. I also updated the name of the MidAtlantic set as well. However, it's still not showing up as a selection in the Montana.

JaVaWa shows the following error for both mapsets, even thought the Nationwide set works fine.

Error: segment codes from this file reside in other files. This will cause problems with routing and/or displaying maps

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by cablebandit

OK, I was able to rename the Nationwide map to Nationwide instead of the tile listing it formerly was. I also updated the name of the MidAtlantic set as well. However, it's still not showing up as a selection in the Montana.

JaVaWa shows the following error for both mapsets, even thought the Nationwide set works fine.

The Javawa message is fairly clear - you have duplicate tiles in multiple img files and that will cause problems.

[cablebandit]

So no maps can contain overlapping map data. That's just silly.

[AugustFalcon]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

Sure glad I don't need to go outside today...

Wow: From -30C to +32C in 24 hours???

That would be -22 F to 89.6 F

[bighopper]

Originally Posted by AugustFalcon

Wow: From -30C to +32C in 24 hours???

That would be -22 F to 89.6 F

He went indoors, to the sauna ...contribution to the Globe Warming

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by bighopper

He went indoors, to the sauna ...contribution to the Globe Warming

No, no sauna, but I guess the wood stove got fairly hot last night. The Tempe's attached to a knapsack in that room when it's not outside in the cold.

[Patch]

... found my answer. the video from gpscity shows it. Just thought it was odd that the contacts aren't the same between the auto and the rugged mount. No worries!

[Attico]

How good is the tempe? Reliable?

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

No, no sauna, but I guess the wood stove got fairly hot last night. The Tempe's attached to a knapsack in that room when it's not outside in the cold.

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by Attico

How good is the tempe? Reliable?

I haven't compared its reading to other thermometers but it seems about right. And it stays connected to the gps as it should. I find it interesting that it stores the high and low values then resets them daily, I assume at the time I first activated it by putting the battery in.

I've been trying to think if it would be best to have the reset happen during the night, or if it even matters what time it resets.

It's spending the night outside. Will be interesting to see what the temps get down to. Was at -28 C when I last looked.