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nklr gps mystery
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:15 am
by Tengai Mark Van Horn
At 12:12 PM +0000 6/23/08, rockiedog2 wrote:
>I have a Zumo 550. About 6 or 8 miles south of Coldfoot on the Haul
>Road the screen went to full dim(broad open daylight). I did all the
>things that can be done to get it back to full bright. It would go full
>bright for about a minute then autodim again. Along comes a Buell rider
>with a Zumo 550 and I asked him if his is working ok. He says it went
>dim on him back down the road. He gets in it to make it bright again
>and same as mine...it auto dims everytime. Coming back down the Haul
>Road about 6 or 8 miles south of Coldfoot the thing goes full bright on
>its own and has been there ever since.
>What?
I suspect Aliens... or the KGB.
Mark
nklr gps mystery
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:50 am
by Kevin Powers
My guess is that haul road dust is covering the light sensor, fooling the
gps that it is dark and causing it to auto dim. That or aliens.
Kevin
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Tengai Mark Van Horn wrote:
> At 12:12 PM +0000 6/23/08, rockiedog2 wrote:
> >I have a Zumo 550. About 6 or 8 miles south of Coldfoot on the Haul
> >Road the screen went to full dim(broad open daylight). I did all the
> >things that can be done to get it back to full bright. It would go full
> >bright for about a minute then autodim again. Along comes a Buell rider
> >with a Zumo 550 and I asked him if his is working ok. He says it went
> >dim on him back down the road. He gets in it to make it bright again
> >and same as mine...it auto dims everytime. Coming back down the Haul
> >Road about 6 or 8 miles south of Coldfoot the thing goes full bright on
> >its own and has been there ever since.
> >What?
>
> I suspect Aliens... or the KGB.
>
> Mark
>
>
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Kevin Powers
White Bear Lake, MN
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nklr gps mystery
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:53 am
by E.L. Green
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DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin Powers" wrote:
>
> My guess is that haul road dust is covering the light sensor,
fooling the
> gps that it is dark and causing it to auto dim. That or aliens.
A Zumo doesn't have a light sensor. It uses longitude and latitude and
time information from the satellite plus its own internal database of
time zones to figure out when dawn and dusk happen at a particular
location for a particular date, and automatically switches into
"night" mode at that time. Sounds more to me like they ran over an
edge case in this calculation where it suddenly started saying "night"
when it was still day. Doesn't surprise me that this happened near the
Arctic Circle, I doubt Garmin does much testing up there!
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Tengai Mark Van Horn tengai650@...> wrote:
>
> > At 12:12 PM +0000 6/23/08, rockiedog2 wrote:
> > >I have a Zumo 550. About 6 or 8 miles south of Coldfoot on the Haul
> > >Road the screen went to full dim(broad open daylight).
nklr gps mystery
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:22 pm
by Don Montgomery
From the Zumo forum -
"Polar circle bug.
Present in old firmware. You need to do an upgrade of your firmware
Among others I found this thread
http://www.zumoforums.com/index.php?topic=5813.0 after searching "polar
circle""
Give the upgrade a whirl.
Hope this helps,
Don M
klr tire options
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:50 pm
by thomas cole
Lister's, many thanks to those that responded to my enquiry. Jeff, and Mark Van Horn thank you for helping me to see some errors in my thinking. That is why I asked the group. Keep in mind I still think it's possible but, more research is warranted before I make a final decision. Dun-lop 606's eh? OK I'll look that up.
Cheers everyone
Tom
A20,Lime Ricky
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